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Read The Bridge

Bagan was scanning for magic akin to Celestia’s, having been able to remotely sense the alicorn and knowing what to look for. It was scanning multiple realms and was slightly surprised to detect something like it here, in a world largely devoid of magic. A portal briefly opened up near Canterlot High’s statue and something slithered out of it. It’s body was originally an outline of various sea creatures assembled into a chimera of sorts, but it quickly remodeled the dark magic composing its body into a vaguely humanoid shape. Blue lines of light criss-crossed its body like some fusion of Polynesian styled symbols and a circuit board, feeding into the pulsing light mounted on where the forehead would be on the tangible shadow. With the portal closing behind it, Mizu, the primordial Aspect of Water, stepped into the side of a car and melted into the reflective surface.

It swam across town at a rapid pace, its shadowy visage and teal glow crossing through puddles, windows, mirrors, and ponds. No human saw anything as hardly any were awake at this time of night, but animals all across the neighborhoods and towns began to panic. Some bayed and screeched into the night, others nearly ran themselves ragged trying to jump over fences or cross roads to flee from the terror they sensed off instinct.
Mizu sensed two magical traces. One from Terra and one from Equestria akin to Celestia’s.

Perfect.

The young woman groaned and rolled in her bed, but remained asleep even as multiple neighborhood dogs started barking and trying to claw their way over the yard fencing; the night erupting in yips and howls. Mizu materialized itself from a large street puddle and approached the small rental house, eyes trained upon the room next to the one with a broken window patched with several boards and a sheet of wood. It paused beside the parked small car. It’s attention was not upon what was within it, but what was stuck to the bottom part.

Placing a hand upon the hood, trails of energy dripped off Mizu’s hand which rolled onto the undercarriage like water droplets. This car had been in Everfree National Park on a fateful night and drove past the rubble the Aspect of Land had touched. And old echos can be revitalized.

Mizu’s lent power pried a glowing fragment free from the bottom of the car, a tiny sliver of what had once been Enjin’s core that got ripped free when Monster X tore into it to free Aria. The fragment hummed back to life, rattling on the ground before Mizu picked it back up. True, a new copy of Enjin could have been created as well rather than this tiny portion, but this was an easier method and one that would get the magic needed. Mizu melted into the car door’s reflection and worked its way up, one reflective surface to another, inside the house and up to the bedroom.

Mizu materialized into the room through a wall mirror, setting the fragment of Enjin’s energy onto the base of a bed before melting back into the mirror. The fragment slithered like pooling liquid, moving towards an exposed hand. It could smell the magic. Magic like Celestia’s which could deactivate the wards Celestia put up. Magic taught to the user by Celestia herself. Sunset Shimmer’s eyes snapped open due to the ungodly chill crawling up her arm just in time to see the dark mass throw itself at her and cover her face enough to muffle her cries.

Sunset Shimmer’s legs thrashed and kicked, sparks and jolts of orange and yellow magic shocking her body. Her kicks became weaker and weaker, before her whole body went slack. Seconds and minutes passed before a new form again moved. Eyes snapped open as the whites and irises were drowned in black, soon replaced by a dark void encircling the ancient symbol for “Land”. The new Aspect sat up, her shadow casting the visage of a horn as the portal claimed her.

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Posted previously at: 2017-01-23T14:25:24 | Posted previously by: Chapelseed