Pony RPG "Press start"

this is an RP thread so get in gear, present your character then go on, remember the point is to continue the thread so a kind of story comes to life, I'll start, my name is Soul Song and I'm a pegasus, i play the flute and it's sweet melodies pass through my head as thoughts, my wings have been damaged, when i fell from Cloudsdale, I've never used them to fly since then, you can say i forgot how.

i may not be able to fly but my music is wings and it grants me the power to resonate the souls of ponies.

I sit on the edge of the glittery river and cast the musical spell upon its glade, the song flows sweet and sour, hot and cold, high and low, it touches all the ponies who happened to be there straight in the heart of their soul, and lets them feel the beauty of their beings, later on these ponies will become fearless warriors and mighty protectors that guard our freedom every day from the evil that lurks in the darkest recesses of the Everfree Forrest, or ravishing mares that craft magnificent magic and glide through the sky, all this music in my head, how can i not share it ? My music is of a grace of a regal princess and the power of a stampeding horde, the height of a bird in flight, the width of a plain, the beauty of a moon reflecting off a river, into my eyes, i cannot say enough what silent rapture in it lies, try to hear this song, it won't be long until you feel my soul. The walls will all collide, i have no thing to hide, together we will bind, the beauty of a kind, and friendship is this divine foundation of beauty.

The river passes through my hooves, the wind blows through my curly mane, i continue the fine melody under the tall grass
- damn it's hard to play with hooves...

- We must cherish these moments, shouldn't we ? They never come back, everything we feel right now, everything that touches us and connects us with this world, all of it is priceless, so priceless... The moment doesn't return, but that's the relish of it.

- That just means you can live it at its height, always, in all ways, in everything you do, every day...

Hi my name is Overhaul. I'm an earth pony from ponyville specialising in inventing.i was the one who built pinkie that special flying machine, god shes awesome and has a tonne of great ideas, dangerous ideas, but they could actually work... anyways I've been working on my old carrage for a while now but i cant see how i can get it to move on its own power, grr i wish i had some fancy magic powers like those unicorns but i... wait i have an idea...

Aha i think ive finally managed to get this old carrage working again. nothing a blowtorch, half a tonne of scrap metal and some unstable magical gemstones cant fix, it doesnt look very attractive at the moment but i hope it works, okay lets see, i just get in press this button

[ a loud roar comes from the carrages "engine"]

and pull this leaver and viola...

[gear leaver snaps]

...oh.. AHHH THATS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN!!!

[the "carage" bursts through the heavy wooden doors and rockets its way through ponyville]

EVERYPONY GET OUT OF THE WAY ROUGE CARRAGE COMING THROUGH

I'm headed straight for the river sepeating the everfree forest from ponyville, at least theres no-one there i can hurt.. wait theres a pegasus sitting on the bank...

GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!!!

I am laying on the ground, thinking to myselffff.....God it seems unnatural, just like a book, my thoughts aren't like that, but then ... Why am i thinking it ?... What's that sound? oh, sh.. What IS that SMELL ? *gets up looks around* * his facial expression is at its height, it was a mix of confusion, astonishment, and HOLY SHIT IT'S FLYING STRAIGHT TOWARDS ME !* * He managed to jump out of the way right before impact* *SWOOSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH - the strange mechanism flew right over his head*

"ughhhhh... where am i" i said as i found myself led down next to the riverbank, my carrage laying in a heap in the middle of the river and a very wet, and angry pegasus staring down at me.
"um, soryy about that... it seems that it still needs a bit of work, i'm overhaul inventor and repairpony for pinkiepie projects". all he does is stares at me. "and your name is?"

I stood there for a moment, everything happened so fast, and some sparks and gemstone dust from that flying hell of an invention were still on my mane, let alone my tail was on fire, WAIT, WHAT!? MY TAIL ! IT'S ON FIRE ! - The over-confused pony threw himself into the river quick as an arrow, a loud hiss came out off the water, and the odor of burning hair filled the air, a small smoke was just on top of where the pony splashed into the water. Finally no trace of him was left, when suddenly something came out of the river cold, stuttering, and wet to the bone. The figure was moving to the weird pony.

I sat in front of the stranger and moved the wet and dirty mane away from the face, "I'm Soul Song... but you can call me Soul" , i said, smiling, but with dignity. Soul glanced at the broken and burning carriage and said: " I've never seen anything like that ", but then he looked back at Overhaul: " You look hurt, c'mon, i'll treat you to shelter and see to your injuries ", that said, he helped the pony stand on his hooves, one arm over his neck, and led him into the forest. "It's not that far from here, just over that hill" - said Soul, comforting his guest, but little did Overhaul realize that Soul walked a lot, and to him that distance wasn't far at all...
But it was really, really far...

We've been walking for hours, "Wait, was it this dark when we left from that river?" no i remember it being sunny, that was when his tail caught fire, i tried not to laugh but a smirk came out

The still wet pegasus looked at me with an angry glare

That pony. He said his name was soul song, who the buck would live this far away from ponyville?, Maybe he liked his privacy... Anyways he's a pegasus, i expect that he just flew here from his home to enjoy a nice day by the river, ugh all this walking is making my hooves ache "are we there yet"

" We're here..."
"There it is, that's where i live", - said Soul Song, pointing at the strange shaped house. At first sight you wouldn't say it looked like a house, enormous forest trees: oaks and pines were integrated into the supporting wall, the gaps in them plastered with clay. The rest of the house was also out of wood, the only thing that gave away this house was the carved door between the two oaks, the small windows in those trees, the paper lanterns that were hanging over them and a wooden bench (three ponies long) that was near the house and the road. The lanterns weren't lit and the whole place was a little creepy, not to mention dark, you couldn't see a thing. There was a field not far from his house, one of the many fields the two ponies had to overcome, to get to this place. They were in the forest, and a small passage - a dirty little hoof-stomped road led to Soul's refuge.

He first led Overhaul in and placed him on the armchair, but as he left him, Soul poured himself into the many chores he had to do to keep the place clean and warm. Soon the fireplace was lit and the air had become warm. And in the kitchen there stood a mouthwatering vegetable brew. Inside the house looked like it had more than one floor. Overhaul was in one of those rooms with a fireplace and a big round table that was slick and lacquered, the ceiling was dome-like and painted into a massive spectacle of some national holiday. The room was full of flowers and plants, some of the walls had paintings of valiant and majestic ponies, from some time period, and in front of some of them there were candles and books. Sculptures of Pegasuses, Earth ponies, Unicorns, unexplainable creatures of all sorts were all around the room - some were sitting, standing, in pose, some thinking, some scaring, some gloomy, some laughing, some big, some tiny but scrupulously detailed, everywhere you look, this place emits harmony and peace, deep thought and Bliss.

But today the harmony of this place had to deal with the mess Soul had made just before he left. This occasionally happened to Soul: on a single day he could lose all point in life, and then gain it again. During that time the house and especially his work suffered from his messed up thoughts and feelings. So a lot of things were mixed with each other and messed up: books lying open on the floor with paintbrushes and cloths on top, plates with hay and bread or apples on the table, clothes were thrown on the chairs mixed with old wooden toys, musical instruments: drums, flutes, and Gusli, armor, weapons: like a bow and a small sword - and other such things that came out of the wooden chest, that seemed out of place, as if it was pulled down here from another room, maps: some scrolled, some open, some hanging on the walls, manuscripts with ancient recopies of potions, small wooden miniatures of stars with astrological measures, albums and workbooks with miniatures and illustrations of ancient mechanisms and their details and Guides to using gemstones and similar magical stones and attributes to make portals and other unimaginable things, notebooks with songs and books with Darusan poetry. On days like this Soul would even silently mutter and talk to himself, his thoughts could collide and wander off in any direction, and not every direction was indeed pleasant to wander into. Ironically, he knew his mind was mocking him because of the position of the stars that particular day, he couldn't help it, but as ill luck would have it the poem he had been writing for a long time now had just then got plain and clear, so naturally he felt like writing it, but nothing worked out, a giant heap he felt he needed to express and yet not a single word could come out to describe it, this made Soul's day really unbearable, so he decided to clear his head and reach the river near some small town, the name of which constantly escapes him.

Right now Soul was cleaning up this mess and very soon it was once again in its formal harmonious state. It was a silent rapture, doubled by the peacefulness of the night. Soul's guest - Overhaul, was sleeping in the armchair near the crackling fireplace, he was exhausted, his right front hoof was roughly scratched and overall he had been burned by the unstable gem magic and the fire from the carriage. " Gems...Why use unstable gems ?,-Soul Song thought to himself:- Seems i'll be mixing up not only a healing salve... Gems don't just burn skin Overhaul..." - he thought while examining his injuries.

An hour passed, Soul was very tired, but it didn't matter,: "At least now you're all fixed up" - he thought. Overhaul was in the armchair, sleeping, his hoof bandaged, his wounds salvaged and his burns treated, he was resting in the chair with a quilt. Soul collapsed on the sofa that was aside from the armchair and fell tight asleep...
"Till tommorow..."- zzZ

It was early morning, I woke up in a small room with a nice open fire 'this must be souls cottage' I thought to myself, as I glanced around the room I saw several wooden sculptures, books, and what seemed to be some sort of sword, it had a beautifully crafted golden handle and a highly polished steel blade, I wish I had a sword like that
as I tried to stand up I fell face first onto the floor. ugh.. what happened yesterday, i looked down at my leg to see it covered in cuts, burns, and bandages. Stupid gems, i appreciated that rarity spared a few gems for me to use on the carriage but i didn't think for a second if they would be unstable. wait the carriage OH SHI- pinkie wanted to see the progress on it, i guess she'll have to wait. She is going to be really mad at me when i get back to Ponyville, after all, i did pinkie promise.

I got up onto four hooves and glanced round the room, I saw a dark figure slumped in front of the fire on a large handmade couch, that must be soul song, I wonder if he's still asleep
*soul song is snoring*
Yep he's definitely asleep, i best leave him till he wakes up, there's nothing worse than an angry pegasus in the morning. trust me you've never annoyed rainbow dash as much as i have. I need some fresh air.

as i walked outside the sun almost blinded me, stupid sun. I looked around and saw lots of trees, a carriage for collecting harvest and my saddlebags, Yes, I might be tired but at least i can still make something to pass the time. I pulled out my toolbox, several pieces of wood and an iron bar out of the bag, now what shall I make... I thought back to earlier looking at that fabulous sword, "Ok lets make a sword then"
I think I may have been a bit loud with my construction as I heard a loud thump
is suspected soul song fell off the couch.

*THUD*,*SPLAT* Soul landed on the ground with his face, "UGH, AARGH MY FACE...FSSST....OOOOW, WHY'S IT ALWAYS THE FACE?.."*INVISIBLE FACEHOOF*, Soul got up, his face was killing him, so he went outside to get water from the well, without delay he got the water and sunk his entire head in the bucket.

" Now, where's Overhaul ?" - thought the refreshed pony after remembering that he had previously a guest in his house, "i heard some loud noises in my sleep, maybe he knows what the hay is going on"
'

standing back I looked at my contraption, I had given up on building a sword, It turns out i needed a really hot fire to melt the metal into a blade.Not going near fire for quite a while considering what happened yesterday. Instead I built an automated slingshot based on Pinkies 'Party cannon'.

I'd found a small wall and placed some of the few empty bottles, cans and objects I found in my saddlebags on it. I figured it'd make great target practice if i tried to shoot them off. I carefully lined up the first shot and *WHOOSH*. the rock from the catapult flew through the air and knocked over the bottle. I lined up the second, then third until all of the objects disappeared behind the wall.

Buck this is awesome.

I wandered around outside souls house looking for more things to shoot with my slingshot, i kept trying to find increasingly difficult targets, apples on a nearby tree, buckets across the yard and i decided I'd try my luck and shoot some gems off the wall from a greater distance.

Lined up the first shot missed, second shot bounced off a nearby flowerpot, third times the charm. the pebble flew through the air and hit the gem.

Big mistake, Those were the gems I used for the carriage.

There was a loud bang and the gem exploded.

Twice in two days I had suffered burns, That's a new personal best...

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM* The ground was shaking like there was an earthquake nearby, the stuff inside Soul's house started falling down and crashing, especially the wooden chest that came crashing down the second floor and that would certainly crush Soul's skull if he weren't quick enough to dodge all this falling madness, "WHAT IN TARNATION !?" - said Soul angrily, really disappointed with the explosion.

"WHAT IN THE HAY IS GOING ON HERE ?!" - screamed Soul as he walked out of the house, while coughing. A large smoke that was thick as hell and stunk of sulfur was all around him. Soul desperately tried to find Overhaul while waving away the smoke with his hooves. " Overhaul ! *cough* *cough* *COUGH* Over...*COUGH* Overhaul!" - he cried in the smoke, trying to find the pony, but he was nowhere to be seen, finally the smoke had begun to wear off and the wind started too blow the smoke away from Soul's half destroyed home and garden. " There he is !"- the pony was lying under the parts of a broken bench and a burned tree, he was unconscious. Soul quickly started to break the obstacles between him and Overhaul, and took the burned tree and parts off of the injured pony." damn you had me worried Overhaul" -thought Soul, he then took the poor pony and put him over his back, and led him inside the half ruined house into the half that was still standing, he cleaned the dust and garbage off the sofa and left Overhaul on it. with whatever that was left of the mixture from last night he covered his wounds and made new bandages out of the clothes he had near.

" It so appears that Overhaul is a walking natural disaster,- Thought Soul while putting the special mixture to the new burned wounds that Overhaul had inflicted onto himself,-- I think i have not yet seen another pony that obliterates everything around them as often as him, he is by far the most demoniacally tended pony i've ever met,
I mean he just blew half of my house to bits, where the hell am i going to live now, or whatever, that doesn't even matter anymore, i'm more concerned about how the hay this pony lives with himself, screw my house, this pony has to deal with his tendencies everyday and live everyday with enough luck not to BLOW HIMSELF THE BUCK UP. He's lucky right now that i'm even here to stitch him up, the damn fool doesn't even realize that if you don't treat gemstone burn injuries with special mixes the result would be in losing control over that part of the body for three months, let alone you would suffer pain that if i could describe by my last patient is like being jagged into by a fiery rugged knife, and that sounds like it hurts a lot."

"There...finished, - Thought Soul, refreshingly, - boy are you a trouble Overhaul, I guess that means i'll have to travel to that little town near the river, i'll be staying there for the night, or probably, even longer, *sigh* hope Overhaul sleeps well, he's in no condition to move for the nearest five days, i've got a carriage in the back, I'll be able to pull it till that town, then i'll put him in the Inn where i'll be staying, i've got to see that he recovers from this condition."

Soul song started to pack his things, he put on his cloak and put all his stuff in the satchel, he also took his bow and sword with him, checking that he has everything that he should with him to keep them clean and working, the musical instruments came too, he really loved his flute, he put it along with the herbs and a book that was the complete guide to using magical gemstones in his satchel, now, he was ready. He took Overhaul, and placed him on the carriage, and they were off to another place - a place the name of which Soul always seemed to forget...

" In fact i'm happy he destroyed that place, - thought Soul leaving the forest behind, while pulling the carriage slowly through the fields,- It was really slowing me down,
at least now i'll be able to find my old friends, it seems we have something we need to discuss, i've finally found a solution to the problem we've had with those portals. And this genius inventor has a tonne of experience on building all sots of contraptions, maybe he's good at building our stuff too". Soul was in a good mood. "It seems i need to summon my old crew once again, i wonder how they're doing after all these years... Yes sir, this'll be quite an adventure..."

Stupid gemstones, I should've known better, shooting them with a slingshot, what the hay was i thinking, wait, this isn't souls cottage, its a carriage, a bit dull, not like my carriage, but that was in a river just outside of Ponyville, probably a pile of ash right now, i tried to stand up but fell back down, my legs were bright red with burn marks, somehow that explosion was bigger than the last one, but i was used to injuring myself, a few burns wouldn't stop me. I looked out the window and saw a large pillar of smoke coming out of the forest nearby, FUCK... did i do that, I was scared at the destruction, one ruby could do, but at the same time i was impressed, that must have been the biggest explosion i ever set off.

Through the smoke i could see souls cottage, twisted and warped through the orange flames, wait, no half a cottage, buck, he must be pissed at me, as soon as i get better, i'm going to fix it, make it good as new, its the least i can do seeing as he saved my life, twice.

We must have been travelling for hours when soul stopped pulling the carriage, outside was a huge lake, bigger than the one in Ponyville, there were several benches and an ice cream shop near the lake, soul helped me off the carriage and told me to relax, we still had a long way to go.

I looked over the horizon, Canterlot was barely visible from here, yet alone Ponyville, I wonder how pinkies doing, she must be worried sick. If she doesn't hear from me soon, something bad is going to happen.

Soul came back with two ice creams, He tried not to look at me as he handed one to me. Is he still angry at me for wrecking his house?. I don't think so, i think he seems almost happy i destroyed it, What kind of pony likes destroying things... oh wait, that'd be me. well not destroying things, just taking things apart in general then failing to put them back together.

I was just about to get back in the carriage when i spotted a small machine sailing through the air towards us, It was painted like a candy cane and had a flag of three multi coloured balloons.The propellers sliced through the sky like a knife and there was a pony driving it, clutching the handlebars with a firm grip, Angry blue eyes looking directly at me, the pony driving it was bright pink, I instantly realized who it was, It was pinkie, Nobody breaks a pinkie pie promise and gets away with it...

A slightly buzzing noise, the origin of which confused Soul no more as he looked into the sky, was being emitted from a contraption with a propeller on it that had flag with somepony's cutie mark, It would bother Soul for a lot longer, without knowing why in the world somepony would fly straight at them on such a ridiculous apparatus, "Hey look Overhaul it's the circus " - Soul would say laughingly, but no need for it, because the weather Soul intended to bypass had just begun to pour down on them and the wind blew so fierce that even the bridge on the lake started to shake all around. This being so, the pony in the little flying contraption was definitely not of the luckiest this moment: her small propellers started to spin really fast and her previously hard grip had failed her and the flying ridiculousness of a contraption, while turning and flipping over, was being carried away by the winds right into the clouds and back where she came from.

"I hope she doesn't injure herself", - thought Soul, his mane and cloak were waving in the wind, " Hey Overhaul, this weather will be pouring for a long time, and we need to get to that town today, just stay inside the carriage and don't get the bandages wet, ya hear ?" Overhaul was in the carriage and only murmured in answer, must have got the bandages a little wet, because he grabbed one of his hooves and was lying around in the carriage, moaning in pain, "Don't worry, I'll get us there in no time Overhaul !". And Soul proceeded to pull the carriage towards the road that lead to some "Ponyville"- or whatever that sign on the road said.

The two ponies reached a little inn on the very edge of a town called Ponyville. It was a small town, and really peaceful, but at the moment there were no ponies out of their house because of the pouring rain. The houses were mostly two or three floors high, and there was a lot of gardens and flowers at every house. Soul's hooves were terribly muddy, there was a big heap that seemed to have stuck on each hoof. Soul had them cleaned in a sink near the inn and started to get Overhaul out of the carriage, he took Overhaul out and entered the inn. It was dark but one of the owners of this place walked to them with a lantern, then everything was very well lit. The light blinded Soul, but then he saw a unicorn with a tender blue coat and a deep purple mane, her cutie mark were black sparkling stars:"Hi, I'm Dreamaine I own this place, how could i be of serv...", "Dreamaine is that you ?!", "Soul?", Soul Song dropped Overhaul on the floor and swooped to the pony, hugging her really tightly "I've missed you so much" -cried Soul, the blue pony hugged back, warm tears were falling out of her greenish-purple eyes on Soul's shoulder, she was very happy... Her voice was quiet, she whispered in Soul's ear: "How did you survive all these years, where were you hiding, where's Split Fury? Where's Slip Gate? Where are the others? What happened to them?", - her voice was shivering and trembling, she was weeping on Soul's shoulder: "You know how many nights I've searched the worlds of Nav' to find you? I've thought about you ponies every day...",- she was without words, her voice started to fade away, overpowered by her tears she couldn't pronounce a single word, "There, there Dreamaine, - Soul calmed and soothed the blue unicorn, - I,m so sorry i couldn't reach you all this time, but some of the remaining Protocs were searching the Nav' as well, you know i couldn't let them get to you...I did what i had to do...I'm sorry Dreamaine...",- the unicorn was listening very carefully "we have to seal the perimeter...Look" - Soul showed Dreamaine a lightly-glowing ruby that had a color of deep blood: "This is from the Dungeons, when Slip Gate gave it to me, he said it was from another world, he helped me escape from the Dungeon, but to this day i haven't heard a word from him, he's probably hiding too...",- the blue unicorn took the gem and turned it a few times in her hooves, carefully inspecting it: "there's something written on it...It's similar to those books i read in the Nav', only older, i think i might know a few ponies who can read this language, I was about to contact them this night",-said Dreamaine, "that's not all Soul i think i sense some presence in the stone but can't figure it out",- "That'll have to do for now... Dreamaine do you have a basement?"-"Yes, why?"-" We'll be needing it soon...",- said Soul with a delightful grin on his face, Dreamaine looked at him quizzically, but then her face started to shine: " You mean, you've found a solution with the portals?" - she asked, she was very excited and happy," Yes,- answered Soul with a satisfied look,- not only that, - he continued, - but I've also found a crazy inventor, that's sure to manage with the task", - "You mean that sweet earth pony on the floor? He doesn't look crazy... *hehe*", "Trust me, this pony is a walking trouble, he's the reason I'm left without a house,- Soul smirked and pointed at the pony that was lying on the ground,- His name is Overhaul, he's an inventor,- Soul introduced the pony. "you better start putting magic seals in that secret cabinet of yours, we're going to need all the power we can get to travel through the Nav' as a team, tomorrow I'll be looking for Split Fury, hopefully I'll find him before he gets himself into any trouble", Soul Song said, smiling. Dreamaine giggled."Well you and your friend are welcome to stay in my inn for as long as you like, I've got enough rooms for the entire crew",- she said, smiling back. Soul took his friend off the floor, and followed the blue unicorn to the room, he put Overhaul on the soft bed, near a window and let him be. Soul was tired as hell, he found a room that suited him most and collapsed on the bed, he needed a good night's sleep, there was enough trouble from that guy to even think about it, he was just glad that that pony was bandaged like a mummy and that he didn't have the ability to injure himself any further...
"Better get some sleep, it was a long day..."

we were in the local Inn just outside ponyville, there was a heavy rainfall outside and the sound of thunder kept me up all night. Ignoring souls excuse to lay down and rest, i got up and made my way over to the window, I could see ponyville and all of its buildings clearly from here, town hall seemed to be in particularly bad condition. Had that been because of my carriage when it went out of control? no, i didn't go anywhere near the town hall, i could clearly see my path of destruction through ponyville. the trail came straight from my garage near Cupcake corner, swooped round the library, through several gardens and food stalls before racing down mane street and crashing into the river where my carriage lay in a heap of smoking wood and metal, i swore i could see pinkie looking at the pieces, throwing them into the river angrily. I'd have to make something to make up for this.

I crept downstairs and found a large oak cabinet with a picture of a wrench on it, i tried pulling it open, locked. "damn" i said, the only thing i can't do is pick locks... or make clothes.. or fly, use magic, control weather.....

hmm souls still asleep, and his friend, with the blue coat and the deep purple mane, what was her name, Dreamaine? they both have such strange names, i wonder what her special talent is?

I guess i should really get back to slee...

*knock knock* there was a heavy knocking on the door, i expected it was pinkie, she must have followed us here, without hesitating i opened the door, there stood a soaking wet earth pony with a pale purple coat and black streaked hair, "o..o..overhaul... buddy, it..its been a long t..t..time" she was obviously shuddering from the cold, she was soaked to the bone.

"Velvet. Is that you?".

"Y..yes," she said as i let her through the door "you do know pinkie's looking for you right?, you best avoid ponyville for a while too, theyre still a bit angry about your latest invention. so, what have you been up to for the past few days".

"well firstly i crashed the carriage, wallked about 50 miles to a cottage in the middle of an old forest, made a catapult, blew up the cottage, almost died, had an ice cream by a lake, and got chased by pinkie".

"wow, you have been busy" velvet said, still wet to the bone and shivering. "you don't suppose i could stay here for the night, the rain is too heavy and i think i'll catch a cold if i go out there again".

"umm.. okay sure, i'm sure soul or dreamaine wouldn't mind, seeing as you're my friend. theyre really nice ponies, you should meet them sometime".

"who's soul?. Is he the poor pony whos house you destroyed?"

"umm...... yes, it was sort of an accident. don't freak out ive already decided to fix it when i recover. ughh i'm tired, well see you tomorrow morning velvet."

"goodnight overhaul"

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Dreamaine

The thought of having Split Fury on the team really distressed Dreamaine, and kept her mind busy a portion of the night, when she was finishing up the magic seals on the columns of her room (to which only she and a few other ponies had access, including Soul). She thought as to why of all the ponies in the world Soul would pick Split Fury, but then again, Soul trusts him,"So should I",- thought Dreamaine,"Still...That pony is more of a beast then a pony...A Demon...Yeah...That pony is plainly some kind of Demon...Very powerful, very unpredictable...or at least as i remember him", she was finishing the last seal with these thoughts, then after chanting and using her magic, she sealed the space of the entire room, "Should be enough",- she thought,- I wonder what that gem does"

"Finally, some sleep..."

Good night Dreamaine, after all, Dreams ARE your talent. And it is true, Dreamaine owes a lot to Soul for getting her cutie mark. She met Soul (Soul had already been wandering the world at that time) eight years ago in the forest, she wandered around, lost, having previously sent there by her mother to get some mushrooms, she'd lost her basket and couldn't find it, so she wandered and wandered and wandered, all alone...tired..and lost. It was getting dark and creepy and the howling of wolves doubled her caution. Then there was a really loud howl, she was scared, It sounded like it wasn't far from her, she panicked and jumped into the bushes. She shuttered from fear and her legs couldn't hold her, she was frustrated, then, inside the bush that she sat in, someone said:"Shh...don't move around...it's just a wolf...don't make any sounds and he'll pass",- said somepony behind her, she was too scared to answer, she saw a wolf from the bush, his eyes burned in green and his skin was of wood, the wolf howled again, ear-piercing and loud, and ran away, driven by the voices of his fellow brethren. Dreamaine fainted, but somepony's hooves caught her in the air, it was a pony in a black cloak, so she couldn't see his face or anything else for that matter as she was being carried on his back, gently kept from falling by his wings," Where are we going mister?",- Dreamaine asked, "Why, to see the forest better of course, there's no point to go sight-seeing if you can't see anything",- the pony said laughingly,"Well i'm definitely not a sight-seer, i'm just lost, i lost my basket and couldn't find it", "You mean this basket?", - Soul took out a basket from under his cape, what a sight it was for Dreamaine, she'd finally found it! "Where'd you find that mister?",- asked the young filly, "Some hedgehog family it seems was walking where you had left the basket, i was astonished when i saw that the mushrooms, that i came to look for here in the forest, were coming right at me, - Soul laughed,- what a sight that was!", Dreamaine giggled "That is kinda funny, hey mister, what's you're name ?", "I'm Soul Song"," i'm Dreamaine, and right now i feel like i'd collapse on the cold ground and fall asleep", "Well never too late to try!"," What? " , the next thing that happened is that Soul made a slide out of his wings and Dreamaine landed on something soft, it was the grass, but it wasn't prickly like the grass in the forest, they were in the field, on a big hill, in front of a river, and the moon was standing still with all her luminescent beauty. "Wow!",- said Dreamaine,-"This is amazing, Soul Song, do you live like this every day?" "Without a doubt I've lived every day of my life like this moment, - said Soul, quietly, with dignity - A lot of my friends and family died, so i could still live...so we could still live, to see this beauty", Soul sat on the grass with Dreamaine. "Does that mean you got no friends?" "Of course not young filly, - said Soul, through tears, - I've got you and the moon,- Soul smiled,- Hey...You wanna hear a song?" " Yeah sure". Soul took out his Gusli and started to sing an old song from his country, Dreamaine couldn't understand a word, but she placed her hooves under head and enjoyed the song and sight anyway. Soul had sang his song with lyrics, that even though Dreamaine couldn't understand, she felt it made her body light, the pain and exhaustion had all disappeared and the tune was very delightful. But mostly the song made her sleepy and Dreamaine closed her eyes. But Soul was only playing louder and louder, articulating all the sounds and notes, hitting ravishing chords, that would make any soul sing. Dreamaine was in her dreams, and in the worlds of Nav'. She could hear Soul's singing even here, it was loud and pleasant, this entire world was plain to see as if she never went to sleep, to the tact of Soul's song she saw the ground shift, and the land shape, and out of the ground grew a wonderful palace. the wind caught Dreamaine in the breeze and took her inside, while emitting light, it was also very cool and chilly, and soft like silk, She had gotten into the palace and the walls there bent and broke to Soul's song, they curved upwards and downwards, and flew in every direction, and Dreamaine was astounded and confused, "How is this so real?",- she questioned herself. She walked towards a mirror in front, and the mirror melted in front of her into the floor and in one moment filled the entire floor, so that the floor reflected everything above, then the walls above collapsed into bits and pieces, exploding and each flying in their own direction, but their reflection on the floor remained, Dreamaine glanced down, but then the floor turned liquid and she fell into the reflection of her and the walls, and as she fell down the place turned around, she appeared on the other side, all the walls had changed different, and the floor remained solid, but checkered, and the rooms she could see from where she stood were three, filled with gold and gems and diamonds, and a fearsome black dragon(twenty ponies tall) was guarding them, the filly was scared, but Soul's voice said,-"That dragon's a whelp, 'tis merely a lie", and his voice made the filly fearless and spry, so she ran towards what she had feared, grabbed a sword with her magic and cut the dragon in half, then the dragon arose, two halves of his body had lit, and he fell on the ground from with each side, the filly was happy, she'd beaten her fear, but illusion stood near and the dragon exploded, so loud to the ear, so bright to the eye, that poor old Dreamaine had screamed. She stood on the ground for a moment or two, when she realized she was in the sky, she glanced down and screamed "Aah", still hearing Soul's lyrical song, the illusion was wrong, THAT he said in the song. So Dreamaine had worried no more, standing there was a bore, so she flew with the clouds in the sky, like a Pegasus she could glide through it, there was nothing that could hide on the ground. For Dreamaine this world was enchanting and magical, she could do whatever she wanted, she could fly through the sky, she could dig through the earth, she could swim without fearing to drown, she was bedazzled with this place. She could create entire villages with ponies and forests and rivers and hills, fields, grass, dirt, and it would seem so real!

But then she woke up. Soul had finished playing on the Gusli...

The vibration from the string was still present in the air, it made it soft, nursing - one could say. Dreamaine was amazed:"Soul what was that place in my dreams, did you have anything to do with it?",- she asked, excited. "Yes Dreamaine the place you were in were your dreams, it's what we call the Nav' where i come from. I merely helped you see what you do best with one of my songs" " You mean i did that all by myself?" "Well yes, but the song just strengthens a pony's special talent, and you have a very big talent in Dreams, you nearly transported the entire field into the Nav', even i can't do that, good job young filly" "Really you think so ? Thanks Soul!", - the filly hugged Soul with her little hooves, her flank flashed for second, and her cutie mark appeared: three black shining stars. "Oh, my! My cutie mark!", "These black stars symbolize the Nav', congrats kid, you're a true Dreamer" "Yay!",- she saw the cutie mark and hugged Soul even tighter.
After that she had been coming to Soul's hideout in the woods every day, where he taught her everything he knew about the Nav' and magic seals and chants, that they used,- "These are for certain occasions, usually you could find anypony in the Nav', while they are sleeping, but sometimes you need to enter the Nav' as a group, then you use magic seals, and chants to place them, got it?" "Uh Huh", "Good now lets practice..."

Years later she found out, that not only could you enter the Nav', but there were also ways to enter different worlds, very distant from theirs. Soul introduced her to his friends Slip Gate and Split Fury, and taught her that they used a portal to get there. They had found one in the ruins of the ancient palaces deep in the everfree forest. When she saw the humongous Door-like structure filled with black void and powered by magic, she didn't know what to think, she was afraid of the unknown that lied inside that portal, so she said that she'd decided not to enter, and Slip Gate with Soul Song entered the other world, while Split Fury remained to power the Gate. Of course as she feared, the portal had collapsed, as they used it pretty often and it was centuries of age, and the ponies were trapped in another world. Dreamaine was horrified, but she and Split Fury had to escape the collapsing palace, that was falling down on them, and would soon bury them alive. Luckily she found them, nights after, in the Nav', and asked Endervoid to help her get them out of that world through the Nav'. Endervoid accepted to help and the ponies returned safely home, or rather, barely safely, the ponies were paralyzed for months. Split Fury however had gotten lost, off to somewhere he could practice his enormous power, being the natural catastrophe he is, this disturbed Soul very much.

Years after the ponies had found another Gate. This time they carelessly strolled between the worlds, because of the stability of this particular one, that was powered by Dreamaine. But a danger had encountered them, some leeches(or Protocs(they feed on all sources of power till they drain it completely and kill the host)) from the original portal they used had been hunting the ponies in the Nav' for some time(which endangered the leeches because of their energetic form), and with another portal open, they easily tracked the ponies down. This endangered the entire crew, and they decided to blow up the portal using the unstable gems they had for powering it, so the Leeches wouldn't enter their world, they blew it up, and as ill luck would have it the unstable gemstones had infected some of the area on the surface, where some leeches have escaped, so the crew had to part and Soul distracted the leeches and led them away from his crew, after some time the leeches died from the infection and Soul killed the last one with his sword, but to the day Soul met Dreamaine once again, the crew remains scrambled across Equestria.



Dreamaine was sleeping, but in her dreams she was studying ancient books in the many Libraries of the Nav' and contacting her mentor the great Wizard and Space Shifter - Endervoid.

This was no ordinary pony, Split Fury is the demonic spirit of a distant world called Mutum, which is mostly the only thing Soul and Slip Gate knew about him except that he was also a reckless rampaging son of a buck and a fearless drunkard, and that it'd take him five barrels of heavy industrial ale to get half drunk and that he could even bite through metal and digest it without breaking a sweat.

There is no pony Soul ever met like Split Fury. Soul and Slip Gate where traveling through the portal to the world they called Mutum. When they first met Split Fury, they were astounded to learn how fertile this world was, they could put a stick in the ground and it would would grow ten feet tall the very next day. The grass was long and thick and it was perfect for making bows. The sky was blue most of the time, but when it was noon it changed to a mix of green and orange. There was a sea nearby and when the sun was at noon it looked like it was burning, the water would curl in flames, although it still remained liquid and glittered in the sun. The wind here blows hard in every direction, one at a time, and every time it blew it would tremble and trouble the leaves of the enormous trees and deafen us with the sound of their heaving and waving. The animals were very similar to our world, but it seems that these animals would be the predecessors of ours, they had different eyes they were different colors, but mostly they reminded Soul of the animals in their world, except that they could almost never find any flying creatures.

It had been a long time till Soul and Slip Gate found any villages and it had been so, that there were also ponies and unicorns who lived in them, not one or two but eight tribes Soul and Slip Gate have found there, and all of these tribes were at war with each other, sometimes one or two tribes would form an alliance but their alliance wouldn't hold for very long and in the end they fought against each other again and again... Some tribes used weapons: swords and axes, spears and spiked mallets, some used magic: fireballs and lightning, some healed and put forcefields around themselves, some used creatures, remember Soul couldn't find any flying creatures ? Well they were all here, being frequently captured and trained in bestiaries, later on to be used in fighting with a hostile tribe, gigantic flying dragons, except they didn't breathe fire, they looked more like pterodactyls, Soul saw similar to these on some drawing when he was a little filly.

When the tribes recognized two ponies that were very different from themselves, they started to hunt and attack Soul and Slip Gate, for a while this didn't bother the travelers, since they were constantly avoiding and hiding from them. But then they got caught in a major battle between all of the tribes, it was an intimidating clash of unicorns and earth ponies and the two were stuck in the very middle of the fight. They had to break their way through to the portal and get out of this place alive, Soul and Slip Gate fought fearlessly with the weapons they acquired from the dead ponies, slashing their way out.

"What the hay is this place Slip Gate?",- Soul Song asked, while shielding himself from the screeching arrows, "No idea, but it's definitely not a place that's happy to see us",- replied Slip Gate, rapidly, while shooting arrows back at the enemy. But it was useless, no matter how much he shot there would still remain enemies, "Let me get on your back!",- said Soul and took out the Gusli, hopped on Slip Gate's back and began to play war songs that increased the spirit. Slip Gate would hear it and would run faster and get out of the battle. But the last thing they expected to see was some pony warlock with curled horns that was running straight at them and that was wielding a double-sided war Axe with his magic. And when he reached Soul face to face a massive explosion took place all around the three ponies that wept the entire field of battle of everything living in mere seconds. The ponies lay unconscious in the epicenter of the blast, finally Soul woke up, looked around, he couldn't believe his eyes, the entire field was blown in a scorching flame and yet nothing was burning, like it vaporized into thin air from the blast! "We got to get the hell out of here Slip Gate !",- Soul was waking Slip Gate,-"Come on! Wake up!", he cried, but Slip Gate only shook his head, but couldn't get up, Soul took his friend and placed him on his back, and started to get away from this place, leaving the unconscious pony with horns on the ground. When he reached the portal there was only a portion of gems that were powering them, and they barely got through to the other side, but luckily this time they made it and they were safe. Soul broke the gem on the portal and sighed.

But what awaited him when he turned around!

Face to face he met with the horned pony from that world! Soul Song was struck with shock! And this would be his last moment in life if that pony would strike at him with his giant Axe! But. Luckily for Soul that didn't happen, "Well!? What are you waiting for?!", - said Soul on a speck of his breath, then he was breathless, the pony with horns in front of him put his Axe on the ground and bowed in respect to Soul Song, he then said " Moi Lord, Blago Dariu" and showed Soul his Cutie Mark, it was a red fire ball of flame with hellish flame tongues that were pointing in seven directions. Soul Song was obliged..

As years went by Soul made this pony his friend and taught him their language, he named him Split Fury and always brought him when they were traveling through Gates, Slip Gate was nervous for a while, but as time passed he retained full trust in this pony. Split Fury always helped Soul Song when he asked, and had respected him higher than anyone. When Split Fury had learned to speak the pony language he described that he was endlessly in gratitude to Soul Song for giving him the "Mark" and that he will eternally be at his service, he said that in their world no one had these "Marks", even though they heard about them from the stories their elders used to tell them, and told that their world was once one of the many worlds where a great "Empire" used to be, and that that "Empire" would frequently use some kind of "Doors" that could let them travel through their "Empire".

The power inside Split Fury was enough to evaporate and blow up an entire village, and year from year Soul would not stop to be astounded by his power, but mostly he would be even more astounded by how reckless this pony is, he would always hear bad news from any place Split Fury has ever been to, that that place has either been dislocated, discorded, irritated or even blown up, but "luckily" Split Fury never killed anyone accidentally, although his drunken rampages, after having previously withered empty and fully consumed a week's supply of ale, have always left behind a drunken havoc of a mess: every five hoofsteps of the town would be crippled, half the trees and lamps would be bent and all of the mail boxes in town would be either stolen or blown up, let alone every fence he's ever been near has been destroyed, and what can you say? - That pony clearly bucking hates fences!

Soul Song never knew a pony could have such liking for ale.

When Soul had invited Dreamaine to the group, they had been practicing to travel through another portal, that was powered by the enormous magical power of the warlock Split Fury, but even though he was powerful, the stability of the Gate looked unpromising at its height. Ha! As ill luck would have it! The Gate collapsed because Split Fury wasn't concentrating, he was looking for his flask, where he had ale, even though Soul Song CLEARLY said that he can't bring any alcohol. As everything around Dreamaine and Split Fury collapsed, they escaped the palace and barely made it. But they have been separated to different exits into the Everfree forest, and Split Fury had been thought lost for a long time.

But Split Fury wasn't lost, of course he had gotten out of the Everfree forest, and he had traveled through a desert, and finally he reached some monastery, he had entered it only to find some ale, but he found there much more. This monastery had been also a school of martial arts and these martial arts were some of the fiercest around, that it has been told somewhere that the students of this school could break stone bricks with their bare hooves, but Split Fury didn't know that or care about it, he was searching for booze, and being unable to find it anywhere made him sad , so he sat on the floor near the monastery walls so hard, he was so upset that when he sat down the wall behind him blew up to smithereens , This caught the attention of the Master of this school, Iron Hoof, and he asked the pony as to why he was so sad and blue, Split Fury told him, Iron Hoof laughed: "HA! HA! HA! Ale?! My friend, I will show you something much more deserving than ale!" And from this moment Split Fury had become a student at the monastery and was fully guided by Iron Hoof, his new mentor. From that time Split Fury has learned to be patient and disciplined, he learned one by one the secrets of the martial arts and perfected them restlessly... Although his second side never vanished and he got drunk every time Iron Hoof sent him to the village for food and water, and in the city taverns where he spent his time betting on himself to win he remains the only pony who could consume a barrel of ale in one blow.

And now every third pony in that town owes him money...

Early morning, Songbirds singing outside, a gentle breeze flowing through the air, and the little tavern just outside Ponyville was still in one piece. For now.

I woke up to find myself in a neatly decorated room on the third floor. It had a nice floral wallpaper, and hoof painted tapestries on the wall, I noticed some of the figures as Celestia and Discord, I had no idea who the other ponies were, they looked nothing like the ponies who represented the elements of harmony, not even close.

As I saw the picture of the Dragonequus, I remembered back to the day when chaos ruled over the land, Ponyville layed in ruin, gravity seemed to have no effect any more, everypony was screaming their heads off, panicking that 'Its the worst possible thing'. I kinda liked all the chaos, somehow, it just kind of fitted, for once I wasn't the pony responsible for collateral damage, and somehow, I don't know why but, I felt safe in all the destruction, like I belonged or something. I got a few ideas from the experience, Terrible chaotic ideas, like new methods of blowing stuff up, even a new way to shoot stuff. But most importantly, an idea for a new way of getting around Equestria. What if a carriage could move, on its own accord, without anypony pulling it or pushing it, and without the aid of being magic assisted, A fast reliable method of transportation, and thus the Motor carriage was born.

Velvet lay next to me. It was nice for Dreamaine to allow her to stay here, even better that she allowed me to stay; considering what I did to her friends house not so long ago. If I returned to Ponyville today, I knew that I'd probably be arrested for criminal damage, disorderly conduct, and probably several accounts of reckless driving. Also, I didn't really want to face Pinkie, she's scary when angry, And completely bucking psycho when she's upset.

There's only one thing bothering me. What were soul and Dreamaine up to? I overheard one of their conversations last night, talking about portals, and somepony named Split Fury and something about martial arts. I couldn't remember anything else. But there was one thing certain, they needed me for something, something very important, and I was afraid I'd get on their bad side if I messed up again. I knew myself, and before the day was over, I was bound to do something destructive or annoying, At least I had Velvet with me to stop me from messing up.

Velvet's my neighbour in Ponyville, Or at least she was, until one of my inventions burned down her house, Applejacks family cider does not count as an alternative for motor oil, the stuffs explosive, why is it always me who makes the bad decisions.

Seeing as Velvet had nowhere to stay, I offered her room in my house, she agreed, but only if I slept in the garage so she would have her privacy. We've become good friends over the many months, she even helped me with some designs and colour schemes. I'm still sleeping in the garage though, we're not that close.

Velvet was supposed to be there when I started up the motor carriage, overseeing everything, just in case anything went wrong. I knew I forgot something that day, If I’d bothered to wake her up, than I wouldn't be in this mess right now, I'd probably be at cupcake corner, eating a pie or something. Chatting to pinkie about new projects and baking, or something like that.

As I exited the room my hoof caught in the door frame, I hurtled down the stairs and landed on the heavy wooden floor, I looked up to see that the cabinet from last night - the one that previously had a lock on it had been snapped open, the door hinges were hanging off. Several vials and scientific instruments lay on the floor, bent or cracked. A magical pool of potions, remedies, and enchanted mixtures swirled together on the floor, burning a hole through to the cellar. But most importantly. There was a pony shaped hole in the wall the other side of the room.

"Soul. SOUL. Wake up. Something bad has happened" I screamed at the top of my voice "And its not my fault this time".

I heard hoofsteps from upstairs, and Dreamaine came rushing down, as she saw the broken cabinet and spilled vials, she fell to her knees and started to cry. This was bad, whatever was in that cupboard was important.

The entire house woke up to the loud screaming of Overhaul. Hearing "Something bad has happend" made Soul instantly think of Overhaul, "What did he do now?!", but after the words "And its not my fault this time", a silent "Huh?" came into Soul's tired head. He flashed rapidly from the bed and came right behind Dreamaine, "What...what is it?",- he said, while inspecting the room and the hole in the wall, then he turned his head to the broken cupboard. Dreamaine was quietly sobbing on the floor, Soul came up to her and sat beside her to sooth and calm her. "Well...there goes a season's work",- she said quietly and sadly, looking at the magical mess of a pool, "Without those tools i can't make any proper remedies, we'll have to use the stored potions i have until i can make more... Who'd do this?", "Some pony that read a lot of falsebuck literature on dream traveling... And a desperate one too", "You think it's cause of those books Kastanette wrote?", "Maybe... remember we had to deal with this in Markeville? We've been robbed like this a few times, when they only took the remedies and nothing more. So much for mentioning a potion in a club.",- said Soul, "Yeah i know, but i never mentioned that i did any potions, just that i do untraditional medicine...", "Anyway these ponies are mostly fillies, don't worry 'bout it Dreamaine,- said Soul and hugged her,- we've been through this before, i'll just talk to the mayor of this town..."

The next half of the day was a hard labor of replacing and fixing, but mostly the work was in the cleaning, which of course Soul insisted that Overhaul did, since he was out of bed when he still had a few days to recover from the last injuries he's made. And Overhaul, of course, having overlooked the enormous mess, decided that a few spare days of rest wouldn't hurt. "That'll keep him from any destruction for a few days, maybe...",- thought Soul, that was sweating all over with a mop and later on with a hammer and wood to fix the damage around the house.

"A robbery?, - asked the Mayor Mare, - and you say this happened during the storm yesterday?", "Exactly.",- Soul replied in a bored tone, "Well, I assure you that this book you talk about wasn't greeted with popularity inside the Ponyville community, many ponies thought of this as a fraud and saw the author as a charlatan, so only one copy was bought by a collector to donate it to a library. I'm not sure anyone in Ponyville could get the idea to rob an inn just for the chance of finding any of those special remedies you talk about", "Great. Just great, you mean you have no idea who did it.", "A private investigator will be hired to find out if your theory is right, and a guard will also come by from time to time just for security measures", 'Yeah...Thanks", "You're welcome."

"Why is talking with politics always such a bore?",- Soul thought to himself while he was walking towards the inn,- "Do they care or do they only seem to care about anything that happens in their town? Oh well... At least that means the town doesn't wait for the mayor to solve their problems.". Soul was thinking, but as it so often happens time usually tends to go fast when you think and the next thing he knew he was in his room, "Home already?",- asked Dreamaine with a voice as sweet as honey, and a smile on her face, "Missed me?",- replied Soul rakishly, half-laughingly half-grinning back at her, "Nuh-uUuh",- said Dreamaine, while turning away her blushed face from Soul and putting her front hooves behind her back and twirling her hind hoof sweetly back and forth, "Listen, I came here to tell you that, it's actually not as bad as i thought, i didn't put any potions in the cupboard, It was just a bunch of acids and rare ingredients i used for experimenting... Well, too bad you had to clean all my experiments of the floor with a mop *he he*, but apart from that i didn't see anything stolen, just broken, maybe i missed something, but i don't know...", she began to leave the room,- "Oh and one other thing there were some red scratches on the top shelf i couldn't recognize... That's all". This sentence struck Soul like lightning, and he turned a little pale, he opened his eyes wide, as if he remembered something critical, he stood like this for a moment, then he started searching his satchel for something. "You alright Soul?",-asked the worried unicorn,"the Ruby, where'd i put the Ruby?!",- murmured Soul with a disappointed and searching look on his face, while he examined the contents of his pockets and satchel. Soul sat on the bed and started to refresh his memory: "I remember... I was tired... then i walked upstairs... No! Wait! First i came to the shelf and put the Ruby in an open cupboard! But then...",- Soul looked at Dreamaine, and after a short pause said,- "It's gone..." Dreamaine raised her hoof up to her mouth in awe...

In a tavern not far from Ponyville a pony with two intimidating curled horns from both sides of his head lay drunk on his face on a round table snoozing. In his one hoof he was holding a big wooden mug with ale, and in his other hoof, which he put closer to himself and put his his horn on, a red stone, that was frequently glowing, the stone slightly and pleasantly vibrated in his hoof, and a powerful spirit from within whispered, gently, into Split Fury's ear.

"Wake uuup... Wake uuup...",- whispered the eerie voice. But it seems the pony didn't hear squat, he was dead asleep.

"WAKE UP GODDAMN IT!"

Split Fury jumped on his seat, and from a drunken shock reflex broke the table and spilled his ale all over himself, but NO! He didn't just break the table, HE ANNIHILATED THE TABLE WITH A FIRE BLAST! All that was left of the table was a burnt hole in the floor. The bartender in the tavern was the only pony who had an astounded facial expression with wide open eyes, because every other pony was blown by the blast wave into the walls in every direction along with their tables, barrels, dishes, cider and their conscious state of mind.

"Damn, i spilled my booze..."

Staying out of the way was easy, but incredibly boring. Velvet had gone back to ponyville, complaining about a delivery she had to make. Dreamaine consulted with the mayor regarding the burglary, and Soul was busy trying to find a replacememt Ruby, up near the cliffs. I probably should've told him about the diamond dogs. They could help him if he asked politely, then again, they might try to kill him if he accidently wanders into their domain.

I'm sure he'll be fine, he's survived two close range explosions in the past week, a couple of diamond dogs shouldn't scare him.

With everypony out of the house i decided to do some detective work. I looked up at the large timber beams holding the second floor up, they were all marked with red scratches and singed slightly with a dark ash. The cupboard, had not infact been ripped open, the lock was broken, black soot and the smell of smoke emnating from it. The handles still remained fully functional. i guess the robber tried picking the lock before searching the cupboard, not having found what they wanted, then tried to destroy it out of rage. Either that, or they unlocked the door, then launched a fireball or something at it. As i placed my hoof on the front of the cupboard door, a painful sensation went straight through it. The cabinet door was burning the skin off my hoof, How was that even possible, wood isn't even supposed to conduct heat.

Strange, I've heard about something like this this before. Rare Infernus tree bark, the last tree in existance vanished centuries ago. The infernus tree was aparently created by embers that planted themselves in volcanic ash. The trees were renowned for their incredible resistance to heat and fire, so much so, that their exists a dam made of the stuff, holding back a wall of lava near Someplace everypony calls 'The stone circle'. Its more like a tower than a circle though, Older than Equestria itself apparently, It's made of various stones intricately balanced together. Some are even reported to float. Whole place is surrounded in mystery, I've been there myself twice. Once on a school fieldtrip, the other fixing the announcement system.

I thought the Infernus tree was just a legend though, I've never actually seen wood like this before, it actually repelled the heat.

"So, think you could come back when everypony was out huh, decide to do a bit more stealing" I turned around to see a black unicorn standing in the archway, he had a dark set of shades on and wore a black bowler hat "I hate your kind, the reckless criminal, not caring who gets hurt, just that you get what you want".

"I'm sorry i think you may have me confu..."

The black unicorn had lifted up one of the table legs and smashed it over my head, i fell to the floor and blacked out.

Soul went out searching for Split Fury, he knew the pony would be at the place of the most havoc, and no wonder, walking across town square, he constantly overheard some conversations about some hexed or enchanted pony with horns here in Ponyville, that drinks acid, spits fire and destroys every fence in Ponyville.

No Doubt about it. This was Split Fury. He was in town.

Soul hurried into Sugar-cube Corner to find out any news or details on him.

"A two horned pony?,- asked the Pink pony who was working as a cashier,- OH Yeah! he was here! he bought a giant industrial size block of candy and dozens of cupcakes! And he paid with a huge gold nugget! Isn't he just great? I've never seen him before. Who knew I'd find a friend that loves candy just as much as i do?! I'm going to make a big super-spantaculous fabulous welcome party to welcome him to Ponyville! Ooh! And who are you? What's your name?", "I'm Soul Song", "I'm Pinkie Pie! Ooh! Ooh! Have a cupcake!", 'Uh... Thanks",- slightly smiled Soul and chewed on the cupcake.

One Pinkie Pie song and friendship later.

"Well, come over to the party this afternoon!",- politely asked Pinkie, having in mind a checklist to make another big super-spantaculous fabulous welcome party for Soul, "Everypony's invited! Maybe you'll find lots of good good friends there! The pony's name is Split Fury! Isn't it funny? It rhymes with blurry, curry, hurry, furry! And I love funny words!..",- and so on and on and on, till Soul's brain exploded.

That's fine, but at least Soul found out he doesn't have to go searching around the globe for Split Fury. How convenient.

Anyway, he had time before the party, so he decided to go to a library. All the worries in the world couldn't match five sentences of a book, especially if it's poetry you're reading. Soul greeted and presented himself to a pony named Twilight Sparkle, "I wont be much trouble, I'll just read in that corner near the window",- that said he found some poetry of Shakehoof and started reading quietly, laughing heartily time from time at the solemn truth of the poems.

The purple unicorn however was reading a new book on a round table not far from Soul, and he could see the cover when he slightly leaned in the armchair, it was a weirdly drawn pony's face on an orange background. This reminded Soul of something the mayor said. Of course! How did he not recognize? It was "Dream reality" written by Kastanette, or rather imagined by her, the author knew nothing of this art. A damn shame to write a book about something you don't understand. Let alone sell it. "That's a rather odd book to have in a collection",- Soul started the conversation,-"I know,- answered the pony,- And I'm waiting for the next one too, this book is amazing, it's written so well and accessible. Wait... Did you say odd?",-" Yeah, a crudely written book like that belongs in the trash.",- "Wh... Why does it belong in the trash?",- Twilight was confused, she bought the book at a sale, and she usually always buys all sorts of new books about anything that seemed practical and interesting, especially if it had a little mystery in it. "You can't put an entire art into one book, that book is half-imagination, half-truth, half-hooey, it's nothing but a sad joke to get money off ponies.", "How can you tell?",- asked the purple coat mare. "Because...",- Soul took out the Gusli, and started pulling the chords, till they morphed into a sweet tune and made Twilight sleepy. She yawned, everything happened so fast for her, as if she couldn't control herself, she did everything unconsciously and the book she held then fell out of her hands, she fell asleep.

It would be unfair to say that she hardly believed her eyes, she couldn't believe a damn thing. She was in her dreams conscious and well, and all around her she saw wonderful worlds as if her imagination from reading a book turned real and came alive. The grass under her bloomed into flowers and grew bigger and bigger, taking Twilight higher and higher and eventually grew so big that Twilight seemed very tiny on this field of red. She was in awe, the flowers were soft and she didn't fall down, even though she thought she was pretty high above the ground, the flowers were so close to the sky that orange clouds, that were enchanted with light colors from the setting sun, calmly passed by her side in the red palace of flowers. Twilight's heart was beating very loud and the sound of it pleased her. And at every beat of her heart and note of Soul's song, there grew large hills and mountains, and the glowing wind that passed by, collided with the mountains with the deafening sound of its breathing: "SOOOOOOHHHHHHH" and"HUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM", - sang the wind while vibrating the air and space around it, Twilight vanished into thin air, she was in the mountains and the trees, she was the wind and she was the sun, she was everything and everywhere, and she loved everything, she was pure love in all her forms.

But then a black twirling hole as if had covered her eyes and was sucking Twilight right into it. She woke up. Soul had ended his song. But the amazement upon which she had engazed was still running through her memory. It was real. She knew it was real. She was in awe, she was sitting on the chair with wide open eyes. She believed... It was very silent after Soul had finished his song, and Twilight after a few moments had gotten up, picked up the book "Dream Reality" off the floor, and went to the trash can to get rid of it. "Wait!",- said Soul, Twilight looked at Soul. "Don't... let it be.",- he said. With her magic Twilight put the book back on some far away shelf, which was hard to access. "It'd be awful sad if you didn't have that book in your collection...",- said Soul, half-smiling.

Soul was reading poetry and time flew so fast that he didn't realize that he was at a party, "So that's where i had to be this afternoon",- remembered Soul,-"Well... It's a good thing I'm there already." Strange, but Soul saw all the guests along with the pink pony and two of her friends, and yet Split Fury was nowhere to be found. " I heard something out the window, it was somepony screaming: "Aaagh... MY FENCE! WHAT THE HAY HAPPENED TO MY BEAUTIFUL FENCE!?". Then somepony turned the lights off and the door opened, Split Fury entered:"Yess! that's the last one!...",- he said looking back, then he turned around,- "Why is it so dark in here?" "SURPRISE!!!!",- shouted everypony in joy. Some white mare was so astounded from looking at the horned warlock, that after screaming:"WaHA-HA!", she fell unconscious on the floor, and stayed like that for a while, until her friends brought a sofa and put her on it.

"There he is",- thought Soul. Now the party had started, and everyone was having fun, and Pinkie Pie was everywhere at once, making sure that ponies have a good time, and that the food was always present at the tables. The pink pony jumped up to her new friend, Split Fury said: "Hi. I was told there'd be booze.", "The apple cider is over there at the food stand, right next to the punch, Enjoy your drink!", said Pinkie and jumped away faster than you can say "nigget blickit", Split Fury slowly trotted to the food stand. He took a scoop and wanted to try the cider, but the same moment Soul came up to the table and moved the cider away, "No drink for you mister!",- said Soul laughing out loud, Split Fury's scoop hit the table, he looked at Soul, the scoop fell out of his hand, he immediately bowed respectfully to Soul, but Soul only came up to him and hugged him very tightly, "How long has been Split Fury? It's good to see you again!"...

The entire party Split fury and Soul were talking at the table and Split Fury told him about all the amazing adventures he had to go through in order to get to Ponyville, and that he is now a master of martial arts, and that it seems he was built for martial arts, because he remembered all the moves and combinations and repeated them flawlessly, and now he was looking for a big field to build a house and practice his enormous power.

"It's good i found you Soul, last night something terribly strange happened to me, it was like a dream, only i wasn't sleeping, i felt unconscious, and couldn't control anything i did, i remember breaking into some house, and throwing fire balls, or something, but it seemed like it the thing or whatever i attacked didn't budge, so i broke it with my hoof... the next thing i knew, i was in a tavern, with a hole in the ground and i was holding some stupid rock, oh, and i also spilled my cider... lousy unconsciousness...",- Split Fury showed Soul a red glowing Ruby. Soul was breath-taken.

Soul half-grinned and put his hooves behind his head on the armchair.

"Split Fury... I think you have just solved our problems..."