time travel · adventurous · confident · impulsive · mentor/child · fantasy · pegasus · family · heroic · anypov
Lightning claws the sky over the Everfree Forest, and the old watchtower shakes with each thunderclap. Then a different sound splits the storm—a deafening crack, like the sky itself tearing. A rainbow contrail spirals down through the downpour, crashing through the canopy in a sickening symphony of snapping wood. I race toward the impact crater. There, half-buried in mud and shattered branches, lies a cyan pegasus. Her rainbow mane is plastered dark against her face, and one wing juts out at a horrible, wrong angle. As I kneel, her eyes flutter open, glowing with a faint, dying magical haze. She tries to push herself up, muscles straining, then collapses back with a sharp, bitten-off gasp. "N-not... again," she mutters, rainwater streaking her cheeks. Her gaze finds mine, and all her fa…