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Last Immortals

By Sunn
Created: 2021-07-16 21:31:33
Updated: 2021-04-20 06:50:01
Expiry: Never

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    >Burns and blisters
  2. 2.
    >Your own skin splitting
  3. 3.
    >Your own blood boiling in your veins
  4. 4.
    >Yet before these things can bother you they vanish
  5. 5.
    >A trait you once savored and cherished
  6. 6.
    >The ability that had saved you countless times and allowed you to save those you cared about in turn countless times
  7. 7.
    >Your immortality
  8. 8.
    >You remember a pony from long long ago tried explaining it to you in ways you could understand
  9. 9.
    >Your forceful breach of the dimensional rift between your old world and here created a temporal lock
  10. 10.
    >You were locked in the prime of life with no way to undo it
  11. 11.
    >Everyday for what's felt like an eternity, you've remembered that kernel of knowledge
  12. 12.
    >It's all you can remember about that pony
  13. 13.
    >What was their name
  14. 14.
    >What did they look like
  15. 15.
    >You knew that once upon a time you knew their name
  16. 16.
    >But not anymore
  17. 17.
    >Your blood's boiling again
  18. 18.
    >Of course, as soon as you notice it's gone
  19. 19.
    >Forcefully pulling yourself out of your own head you lift your eyes to scan the horizon
  20. 20.
    >Same as everywhere else
  21. 21.
    >Barren flat earth, cracked and withered, the only noticeable landmarks being the collapsing crags in the distance
  22. 22.
    >No plants grow, the heat's killed them all
  23. 23.
    >No clouds offer any shade, the heat's completely eliminated all the water vapor in the air
  24. 24.
    >Then you hear it again
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    >The crackling of fire
  26. 26.
    >You clamp your hands over your ears, desperately trying to block it out
  27. 27.
    >But it's in your head now, the tongues of solar fire slithering into your brain
  28. 28.
    >Reminding you of the reality you tried to escape in your mind
  29. 29.
    >As your wracked nerves cause you to tremble, you turn your head
  30. 30.
    >Despite being so far away, you could swear the sun was inches from your nose
  31. 31.
    >The peaceful ball of light and warmth from a billion years ago is gone
  32. 32.
    >Replaced by a mad titan of plasma and radiation
  33. 33.
    >You could feel your retinas burning and reforming again
  34. 34.
    >It means nothing anymore
  35. 35.
    >Your body may have been time locked to remain the same way, but your mind wasn't
  36. 36.
    >Mental adaptation has allowed you to no longer feel pain
  37. 37.
    >A sweet surcease from the world, ultimately hollow
  38. 38.
    >This is the way it's been for millions of years
  39. 39.
    >No ponies, no-
  40. 40.
    >There it was again, you knew that you knew about other species before
  41. 41.
    >You met them, watched countless of their generations be born into the world and watched them turn to dust
  42. 42.
    >Even the concept of time has turned to dust in your mind
  43. 43.
    >There's no life here, no time, no dust
  44. 44.
    >Just you
  45. 45.
    >You and the only thing that's stopped you going mad
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    "Not a thing! Pony! She's a pony! Alicorn!"
  47. 47.
    >Smacking yourself a few times you try to resolidify that knowledge of her
  48. 48.
    >Celestia
  49. 49.
    >The first face you saw when you were first pulled here
  50. 50.
    >She had been a steadfast constant in your life
  51. 51.
    >Even more so when it was discovered you were immortal
  52. 52.
    >You still remembered that day, at least fragments of it
  53. 53.
    >Most of it was her
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    >"Anon-" "-onely is our li-" "-uld stay if you wan-"
  55. 55.
    >It was like trying to catch the spots in your vision
  56. 56.
    >They were only there when you didn't pay attention
  57. 57.
    >That's why you spent most of this past decade in your head
  58. 58.
    >It helped you remember her
  59. 59.
    >But you were sick of your own company after day one
  60. 60.
    >You so dearly wanted to go back to her
  61. 61.
    >Yet, ever the coward, you just fled faster and farther, until you were lost
  62. 62.
    >But you were close again now
  63. 63.
    >You could feel it
  64. 64.
    >Feel her
  65. 65.
    >The last immortal
  66. 66.
    >Once more your eyes trace the horizon and there you see her
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    >A single white dot painted against a barren landscape
  68. 68.
    >Dragging your feet against the desert floor you slowly make your way over to her
  69. 69.
    >After days, or months, or seconds passed, you weren't sure anymore, you finally arrive at her side
  70. 70.
    >Her ivory coat as pristine as ever, her feathers still sharply pointed down
  71. 71.
    >Even her mane's remained the same
  72. 72.
    >The shimmering flow of ethereal light
  73. 73.
    >It can still mesmerize you like it did when you first met her
  74. 74.
    >You try to take a breath to calm your nerves
  75. 75.
    >But you're reminded of the lack of atmosphere as your lungs ring hollow
  76. 76.
    >With a brilliant burst of gold Celestia's horn bursts to life and cool air rushes your system
  77. 77.
    >The rush of fresh cold air invades your system, and your decades starved, hollow body sucks in the air too rapidly
  78. 78.
    >The air reactivates systems in your body you forgot about
  79. 79.
    >The system overload feels like a hole's been blown in your chest, and it isn't healing
  80. 80.
    >Collapsing to your hands and knees you sputter and cough and breathe trying to help your body correct itself
  81. 81.
    >Eventually your body finds its equilibrium and you feel your strength returning
  82. 82.
    >Taking one last gasp you chance a glance up at your oldest friend
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    "Hey Ce-"
  84. 84.
    >Your interrupted as over a ton of celestial white fur, soft downy feathers and ethereal hair envelops you
  85. 85.
    >As you press your hands into her to stop you both from collapsing onto the ground you feel her shake and sob
  86. 86.
    >Pushing her back to regain your balance, you do your best to wrap the entirety of your being around her
  87. 87.
    "Hey Celestia"
  88. 88.
    >You barely whisper it into her neck but the hitch of her breathe and new waves of tears tells you she heard
  89. 89.
    >"You remember me"
  90. 90.
    >Her voice is broken, unsure and trembling, nothing like you remember
  91. 91.
    >You have no reply
  92. 92.
    >Your cowardice, your failure, everything, and yet all she cares about is her name on your lips
  93. 93.
    >At least she's still the same mare
  94. 94.
    >The same mare who sacrificed everything she was to try and fight the sun
  95. 95.
    >The same mare who failed but planted her hooves, gritted her teeth and kept fighting
  96. 96.
    >The same mare who lost everyone as they used themselves to slow it down
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    >The same mare you failed
  98. 98.
    >You tried locking the sun in time, the same way as happened to you
  99. 99.
    >But it was fruitless
  100. 100.
    >Like that pony said all those eons ago
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    >No way to undo it
  102. 102.
    >If that wasn't enough, you ran
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    >When all that was left was the two of you and the dust you lost your strength and ran
  104. 104.
    >But she held you all the same, and you held her
  105. 105.
    >And you were never letting go again

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