darkSpyro

OOC: What do you mean by 'out'? Is the prince going to faint or be unconscious?

OOC: Oh, whoops, that is my mistake. I misread the end of your post. Sorry about that. I'll edit mine now.

As for your posts, you could always make Astrello have a dream while he is unconscious, or we'll time-skip through the night and to the next day.

Starsong watched Arlon, her mouth very slightly open, but she didn't reply. Her eyes widened a little bit as Arlon slashed his arm, seeing beads of silver blood appear.
"You're right. We don't grasp the full severity of the situation." Flash Photography said. "But we can't exactly go anywhere right now since Prince Astrello is unconscious. Unless you want to carry him down into the underworld."

Starsong stumbled over to Arlon and tried to help him stand up.

"I don't think we can walk back to Ponyville right now." Flash Photography looked around. "Maybe we could hide in some bushes for the night..."
Supercell lifted herself into the air and looked around for any small secluded clearings, and it wasn't very long before she found one. "Follow me." She flew down to the group and led the way through some bushes and soon came to a small open area, surrounded by large dense bushes and trees.
Flash Photography was able to use her magic to lift up Prince Astrello, though not very far from the ground, and very slowly, was able to safely place him into the secluded area Supercell had found.

Starsong, despite Arlon leaning heavily against her, continued to help him walk towards the secluded area. Her ears perked up as Arlon asked her a question. The blue pegasus turned her head slowly, glancing back at her bent and stretched-out wing, also seeing tiny trails of blood near the base. She then turned her head back. "It hurts," she began. "And I can't feel it right now, but I'm guessing that's because some nerves might be damaged. I'm just glad it's still intact and wasn't torn off completely." Her ears lowered and her voice grew quieter. "I just hope it's not permanently broken. Despite what the mist creature said...about me wanting to be a unicorn...I just wished that during the moments that the mist attacked us, so I could help you all. But I know that I love being a pegasus and being able to fly."

Supercell landed next to Southern Star and Prince Astrello and sat down. "I'm hungry."
"Well, I thought ahead and packed some food for us." Southern Star smiled, reached into her saddlebags and pulled out some food, giving some to Supercell.
"Thanks." Supercell grinned and then began to eat.
Flash Photography trotted over to them and Southern Star handed her some food as well.

The pegasus and the alicorn were also to the clearing, just on the outside of the dense bushes. "Bl-blood?" Starsong stopped and looked up at Arlon. "Y-you don't have to, Arlon..."

Supercell finished eating, and then looked at Prince Astrello and Southern Star. "So, Astrello is just unconscious?" she asked, looking at the sika deer.
Southern Star nodded. "Yes. He is a little injured, but nothing too bad. He just needs to recover. He should wake up tomorrow."

Starsong shifted away slightly, but was still giving Arlon some support. Her dark blue eyes saw the silver stained hair. Her ears lowered slightly and she looked at the ground.

Flash Photography trotted over to the bush that the blue pegasus and the alicorn were standing behind. "Starsong? Arlon? Are you two there?"
"Yeah, we're here." Starsong replied.
"Are you going to come in here?" Flash Photography asked, referring to the secluded area.
"Yeah, we will in a few minutes." The blue pegasus responded.
"Alright." Flash Photography trotted back over to the others.

Starsong blinked, a little confused about what just happened. She followed Arlon into the clearing and sat down on the other side next to a few tufts of dying grass. She made herself as comfortable as possible and tried to retract her wings. She looked back and realized she could only retract her right wing. She flicked her tail and tried to move her left wing, but she couldn't feel it or move it at all. She turned her head back and sighed, laying down and resting her head on her arms, closing her eyes, hoping that her wing would get better.

The sky lightened and then darkened as Celestia's sun appeared from behind the dark clouds and then set, and the Everfree Forest grew darker and darker. Flash Photography and Supercell were able to gather some small sticks and stones as the sun set, and Flash Photography was able to use her magic to start a small fire in the centre of the clearing. It didn't give off any heat, but it gave the group some light.

Celestia's sun rose over the distant hills but was soon hidden by the dark clouds which covered the sky day and night.

Starsong woke suddenly from a dream. Feeling oddly refreshed, she sat up and yawned, and suddenly, felt feeling in her left wing. She zipped around and looked at her wing. Some feathers were still bent and stretched, but some were healed, and she was able to twitch it and move it around a little bit. "What? It's better?" She tried to move it around more but winced at a small sharp pain in the base of her wing. "Well, a little bit better." She flapped her right wing to stretch it, then retracted it, and then stood up and stretched.

Supercell woke up laying on her back. She rolled over and bumped Flash Photography, causing her to wake up too. Southern Star woke up a few moments later after hearing the others move around.

"Morning." Starsong replied, recognizing Ideas's voice. She looked over at Arlon and noticed that he was silent and looked moody. She looked away and kicked a pebble into one of the dense bushes, and then realized that Prince Astrello had fallen asleep near her. "Oh?" She blinked. "He must have woken up during the night."
"Today is the day then." Flash Photography inhaled and exhaled, shuffling the books and rolled up scrolls around in her saddlebags.

"Wait, what?" Starsong stepped back. Even though she had wished to be an unicorn for a moment or two during the quest, she was still pretty overwhelmed by what magic could do. She wasn't exposed to magic at a young age, and never got used to it. Thinking about having magic sink into her body and heal something broken seemed odd, and she didn't feel exactly uncomfortable with it. Even when Flash Photography got near her with her magic, she stepped out of her way.

"P-Prince Astrello, it's okay, y-you don't have to." Starsong stuttered, turning to face the prince. "Th-thank you for healing my wing, really, but now I will let it heal itself. I have to get used to using it again after all." She dipped her head in thanks. "Anyway, I think you should conserve your magic for later today. I don't want you using it up on my wing."

Southern Star trotted up to them. "I'm glad you are alright, Astrello. Would you like something to eat before we enter Tartarus?" she asked him.

Southern Star blushed red, reaching into her saddlebag and handing some food to Prince Astrello. She sat down beside him and began to eat as well.

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Starsong had stepped back a few metres, and was now on the other side of the clearing. "B-but I didn't want..." she broke off, looking extremely uncomfortable with her ears lowered, feeling a tingling sensation in her wing.

Flash Photography horn glowed as she narrowed her eyes and tried to locate the magic on Starsong. She located it on her wing and her horn glowed a little brighter. Despite the white unicorn still learning spells, she had done a large study about it at the magic school she had attended a few years ago. She knew everything about healing magic, but had never tried it herself.

Flash Photography knew that Starsong could be overwhelmed by certain types of magic. She trotted towards the blue pegasus, keeping an eye on her wing, and began to try block the healing spell, using a spell she had learnt back in magic school. As she did, she noticed that Astrello's magic was very, very strong. He was an alicorn, so it was understandable, but she knew the blue pegasus didn't want magic in her body, and tried as she hard as she could to block it.

The white unicorn flicked her tail as her horn glowed a little brighter. The glow then faded and she sat down, panting.
Starsong noticed the tingling feeling in her wing had gone and she looked back at it. It had definitely healed a bit more, but was still partly broken. She flapped them, and the injured wing moved a little more than it did a few minutes earlier.
Starsong turned her head back and noticed the white unicorn had come closer. "Flash..?" she began, trotting over to her.
"I know..how uncomfortable you are..with magic.." Flash Photography blinked her turquoise eyes and looked up at Starsong. "So..I blocked the healing spell that was on your wing..."
"You blocked it?" Starsong murmured.
The white unicorn nodded. "I studied healing magic back in magic school, so I know a spell that can block it. However, Astrello's magic is very strong. It might activate again. Tell me if you fell anything in your wing and I'll see if I can track any magic on you, and perform the spell again if I need to."
Starsong smiled, touched by Flash Photography's attempt to stop the magic. "Thank you, Flash."
Flash Photography smiled back at Starsong and stood up.

Starsong looked back at her wing, and suddenly a stream of magic flowed out of it and towards Prince Astrello's horn. She blinked, surprised, and then after a few minutes, it began to fade until it had disappeared completely.
"I think he took his magic back," Flash Photography said, as Prince Astrello walked over to the other side of the clearing.

Southern Star had noticed that Arlon had been sitting in the corner of the small clearing for a while. She stood up and trotted over to him, sitting down a few feet in front of him. "I've noticed that you haven't eaten recently, Arlon," she said softly. She reached into her saddlebags and brought out some food, placing it on the ground between the two. "So you can have this."

Southern Star stumbled backwards, surprised and shocked by Arlon's sudden outburst.

Starsong lowered her ears and frowned at Arlon. She wished she could help him, but she didn't know how, and didn't know if she even could.
"Is he okay?" Supercell glided over and landed next to Flash Photography and Starsong.
"I don't think so." Flash Photography murmured.

Flash Photography blinked. "Magic withdrawl? Yeah, I read a bit about it a while ago.." She trailed off, paused for a moment to think, and then spoke. "You...you took the magic from Princess Twilight Sparkle's castle...and now...you're going through a magic withdrawl, right...?"

"You're not worthless," Southern Star said as she trotted over to the white unicorn and the two pegasus ponies. "I don't believe that any creature is worthless."

Starsong, Supercell, Flash Photography and Southern Star, who were standing behind Prince Astrello, all slowly shuffled backwards, getting behind a bunch of bushes and trees, watching as Arlon and Astrello faced each other.

The two pegsus ponies, the unicorn, and the sika deer, trotted out from behind the bushes and over to the two alicorns.

"Ideas?" Starsong tilted her head, looking at the blue fog with a surprised expression.
Supercell looked at Flash Photography, and the white unicorn shrugged, not knowing who 'Ideas' was.

"I didn't know you could..." Starsong broke off, waving one of her front legs at Idea's fog form.
"That's so interesting..." Flash Photography also trailed off and took a few steps closer to Arlon, looking at Ideas closely.
"So who are you exactly?" Supercell asked.