Razz takes a nap...

[silverfall]

[Time: Same time as Set's raging in the square.]]

Razzaroo was napping. He was dreaming about pancakes and cherries and Kail's sweet smile. This lasted only a little while, though, as his dream grew a shade darker. Suddenly, he was in the square, trapped by the blowing of the wind. Something dark was circling overhead. There was a flash of orange lightning. Silverfall was sitting on the fountain. She looked at him, desperate and pitiful. A great spasm overtook her, shaking her.

The goofy purple pony woke with a violent start. Sky Feathers was shaking him awake.

"Uncle Razzaroo!" His niece whispered, barely above a hush. "You were glowing!"

"I was?" he asked. He was grasping at the dream, but it was slipping away like sand. A fountain. Silverfall. Something orange. He thought he could smell blood.

"You were! Glowing purple!"

"Don't worry, honey," he said. Was it something about the town square? "I'm fine. Really. I was just having a bad dream. That happens sometimes."

"You glow?"

"Well, I used to," he said. "When I was a champion. There is still a part of it inside me. See?" He indicated the symbol behind his ear. "It's never really left." By now, the dream had slipped away from him. "I'm sure it was nothing." He waved her off and rolled over, getting up off the bed.

"Oh," Sky Feathers said. She wasn't convinced there wasn't more to it than that, but she was still young. It was hard to argue with a grown-up. Even one so silly as Razz.

"Come on, I'll make you some lunch."

Still feeling concerned for her uncle, Sky Feathers retreated out of the room, followed by Razz. They went downstairs where Razzaroo made zucchini and cabbage sandwiches.

"May I go?" Sky Feathers asked. She pushed aside her empty sandwich plate.

"Yes," Razz said. "A filly your age should be outside playing by now. Stay close, though. I don't want you getting into any trouble."

Sky Feathers nodded and headed out into the backyard while Razz cleaned up the kitchen.

[Silver Shadow]

The at-first-happy gnomes lead the purple stallion through the quickest route to the Ponyville Nursey. On the way, the unicorn realised that his elemental companions grew less and less, as though something terrified them away from their appointed task. He could faintly feel a disruption in the balance, the power and the life coursing though the land, but at the moment his mind was too full to think of it again since he was set on finding the others.

Eventually it turned out to be just two gnome and his sylph that lead him into the Nursey kitchen where Razz was cleaning up. Quietly, Silver Shadow stepped in and considered whether to disturb the other or not for a brief moment, before speaking.

"Razzaroo?" He asked uncertainly. "Where is Silverfall, Wysteria and Delta?"


((EDIT: Just fully read the square post. XD I'm soo slow.))

[Becka *Pone*]

(Continued from "Tyr" at the Inn)

By the time Kail once again reached the nursery the sun had risen and she walked heavy-hoofed along the cobbles with her head down. She could hear something happening somewhere - probably in the square where the sound reverberated so well - but she chose to ignore it. That seemed right now to be the only way to get through this - ignore the ponies proclaiming themselves as gods. Ignore their killing and their destruction and let them have their fun and leave, because Ponyville had no chance either way and ignorance is bliss.

She pushed the door open and slipped inside, letting it close softly behind her. She was about to head straight to her room when she remembered that she had given it to the mare who had seen the murders. Looking around for a moment she saw Razz in the kitchen, and the other purple stallion in there talking to him. She really didn't want to deal with that right now, so as quietly as she could she walked to the other side of the nursery and found herself a blanket (skipping the cot because it would make too much noise) and found an empty spot on the ground to lay down.

But despite her tired body, her mind could not go to sleep, and she lay starring up at the ceiling with tears in her eyes, wondering how they were supposed to save Ponyville this time.

(You can talk to her, I didn't mean to have you ignore her just because she tried ignoring both of you)

[Whispering Wind]

((Just so you know, there´s a note on the kitchen table from Whis:

Hi. I decided to go and eat breakfast at Cotton Candy Café. I won´t be late, see you later!
~ Whisper Wind

She will never show up thought ... and I guess they will wonder what happened to her, until the whitness of her disappearing will tell what he/she have seen.

[Silver Shadow]

When Kail entered, the little pale golden sylph gently tugged the soft silvery mane of the unicorn and pointed in her direction. Silver Shadow looked back in the pegasus' direction and then noted the sad expression on the sylph's face while he pointed in Kail's direction; something was upsetting the mare, but what it was, the stallion didn't know.

He bit his lip, concerned, thinking that he should go over and be some sort of comfort, though he didn't really know her or what he could say that would help. And he was desperate to find out what happened to the others, and if they survived the fire...

[silverfall]

Razzaroo was reading Whisperwind's note when Silver Shadow came into the nursery.

"Silver Shadow," he said, startled and surprised to see the unicorn. "What?" It took him a moment to consider it. "Silverfall? Wysteria?" He couldn't recall who Delta was, even though he'd met her just prior to the fire in his shop. "I-I don't know. She isn't with you? Silverfall hasn't been around since... Well, I just assumed she'd slipped off somewhere after the fire. Kail saw her get out in time."

He was looking then at Kail, watching her, and wondering why she looked a bit out of sorts.

[Becka *Pone*]

Kail could feel the eyes on her and looked in Razz's dirrection, catching his eyes for a moment before turning away on her side and resting her head on her forleg. She let her tears silently slide down her cheek and drip off her chin, but turned her ear so she could hear anything Razz or the other stallion might say.

[silverfall]

Razz abruptly left Silver Shadow and approached Kail.

"Kail," he said. "What's wrong?"

There was a faint violet shiver across his hip.

[Becka]

Wiping the tears out of her eyes, Kail rolled onto her back so she could look up at Razz. "They are going to destroy Ponyville, and there is no way to stop them."

She turned back on her side, "when they get here wake me up."

[silverfall]

"What are you talking about?" Razz demanded, suddenly feeling very cross and not knowing quite why. He stomped his hoof amid another flicker of violet light. "Who is going to destroy Ponyville?" He wanted to ask her what the heck he was doing on the floor crying her eyes out about it, but held that back.

[Becka *Pone*]

"The GODS Razzarro! The gods that your stupid Silverfall let into this nursery!" She hit the ground with her hoof as she lay on her side. She would never forgive that mare for that, letting Set in and talking with him there in the living room, like he was any welcome guest.

"The ponies who call themselves Gods are going to ruin Ponyville. They started with the murders last night. Tyr can't do anything about it, and they are immortal. They can't be killed. They are..." she almost said more powerful than the Rainbows but that wasn't true. Nothing was more powerful than the Rainbows. "They are the most powerful ponies in Ponyland. And the only way to make them go away is to take away their mages, and any who believe in them." She sighed and shut her eyes tight against the world.

[silverfall]

Razzaroo balked. The force of Kail's anger hit him square across the chest, washing over his entire body as it rang against her frustration and pain. What was she talking about? Gods? Silverfall? What? He took a step back. Silverfall had done something? Something terrible? How could she? His lip began to quiver. He couldn't believe that.

"I-I don't...I'm not."

He shook his head. His body was pulsing with light. Some memory was haunting him now. Something about the town square. Sky Feathers shaking. Where was Sky Feathers? He looked around and around, nearly turning in a circle until he stumbled and fell on his bum. His ears fell flat and he was silent. His mind was floating outward, seeing the things he had earlier dreamed.

[Becka *Pone*]

"Leave me alone Razzarroo." Kail said it softly, more like she was talking to herself than him. She knew she should be out at the square, fighting and healing and so on and so forth, but what good would it really do? All she could do now was postpone the inevitable. She would rather let it wash over her like a wave and take her away.

Some "hero" she was making today.

[silverfall]

A visual story was unfolding in Razzaroo's mind. He slowly came to grips with the tale being told, even if it was not what he wanted to hear. So it was true, then. Silverfall had made a pact with an evil god. At first he felt great anger, but then only pity. He would have left it at that, if not for the small stirring of something deep in his heart. The psi mark behind his ear began to burn and his eyes hardened with determination.

"I'm going." He stood up. He turned to leave and was nearly at the door when he stopped to speak once more. "Sometimes I burn the pancakes. There isn't anything I can do, but make more. I'd never get to have pancakes again if I didn't even try. Most times they turn out better anyway." He left.

(Cont. Square)

[Becka *Pone*]

(Lol! I love Razz Pankcakes )

The purple stallion sounded like her mother. Kail's ears went flat as she heard the door shut behind him and she tried to make sense of what he had said about Pancakes. Why was it the only time Razz actually said something worth listening too it was garbled up in Razz-speak?

Kail sighed and sat up, resting her elbows on her knees and holding her head in her hoofs. It was actually quite sad that she (trained in battle and healing) was sitting in here while Razzarroo, quite possibly the clumsiest pony she knew, was going out to battle something that couldn't be won against.

"Rainbows dammit," she mumbled to herself and got up. She went to her room (empty already to her surprise) and opened the large chest that sat in the bottom of her closet. There sat her mothers weapons from long ago - the magic bow and arrow that the Ghostly had given her (and had nearly killed Kail before she was born once, and so to save her they had to use the healing stone, and blah blah blah, yay Ghostly for making a superhealing baby Kail!), the dagger she had taken from the evil yellow stripe a year ago (it was a very beautiful dagger), and a few other odds and ends she had found over the years that she had been fighting.

Frowning and rather resentful, Kail grabbed some of the weapons out. She strapped the dagger on her ankle (and made a mental note not to stand next to anyone who looked dead for fear of the blade entering her stomach), threw a longer blade around her waste, and lifted the bow up over her shoulder. She left the armor her mother had passed on - it didn't really do any good since it didn't cover her neck.

As she was leaving the room, on a whim, she grabbed the compass on the chain and threw it around her neck to bounce against her second symbol, which as of yet was still its normal green color. No glow.

(Following Razz)