Whispering Darkness

[The Wandering Magus]

Feather frowned, and took out a piece of chalk.  Carefully, he drew a near-perfect circle on the floor, all the way around the bones, stopping now and then to put in what the alchemist recognized as runes in draconic, zebracin, Ibexianese, griffonic and other ancient languages: wisdom, knowledge, searching, understanding, lore.  Around the inner circle he drew another, equally perfect circle, inscribed with runes and sigils of protection and guarding and warding.  When he finished walking in another full circle, he focused his will a bit, and the circle glowed very faintly.

"Let's see if there's more to these bones than can be seen," he whispered under his breath.

[The Stars]

The energy flowing out was, as it seems, Black Magic, however, this seems rather unstable.  As it flows out, it seems to unstably stagger, a bit latent, and stops short instead of smoothly flowing like Sombra's power normally does.

[The Wandering Magus]

"Interesting, very, very interesting.  What do you make of this?" he asked the alchemist.

[The Stars]

(( XD I'll wait after this for Bleyd to post... This is dragging on for a long time.))
Range Shrugs "I'm not sure... I never bothered to touch Black Magic in Alchemy, so this would be far out of my league."

[bleyd]

ehy look that Crimson. a bath  yes i can clean now mujajajajaja
bleyd enter and try use water   argg dont have water
and i dont see more monsters ,are  we back?

[Lusterless Nova]

Nova walks over to Range as he finished taking care of the remains.
Sorry for being late. What's the situation so far?

[The Wandering Magus]

"It seems we're dealing with a bit of Black Magic in addition to Forbidden Alchemy here," replied the researcher as he gestured gravely to the spell circle.  "Would you happen to be familiar with this sort of magic?"

[The Stars]

Crimson Sighs. "To be honest, I can't tell if there are any... I doubt there's gonna be any after this next car, line ends after that." Crimson says as he holds his hoof to the car, sliding it open and turns to Bleyd. "We can wait on the shower later, if it's alright with you. Doubtful there  would be any water here; we just got this train up and running not too long ago, water systems won't be operational for a while."
(( It's commiiiiiiiing  Ovo ))

Range looks over to Nova. "Well... If i'm not mistaken, we might be facing with a force I'm already familiar with... Those bones emitted a black magic so familiar... But what was it that caused this?" Price looked over at Range.
"The Spectral clone?" He suggested.
"The... What?"
" That dark figurine in the shape of what appeared to be you. I wasn't entirely sure, but untill I looked in the newsprint and you closely... It almost seemed precise to the last measurement. There were reports from Pisa about that equine shadow  haunting, trekking  the ruins of Tambala... Perhaps It's followed you here?"
"Followed me...? Why would it follow me? What do I have that... It..." She stops short in her speech, then looks down at the Philosophers Stone. "...I see... But that doesn't explain the next question: You said it looks like me, right? Why would it want to appear in my image?"

[The Wandering Magus]

"Identity theft is a much-used tool in crime.  And... well, one would HOPE, at least, that our little Dark Alchemist hasn't found out about Equulei, the OTHER reason why a shape would almost exactly resemble another alchemist, especially one bearing a Philosopher's Stone."

[ArtVeigar]

Is this black magic emanating from the bones something dangerous? Otherwise, I think it would be better to do the talking along the road. We have a mission to acomplish that can't be delayed any further. - Arty said, looking at the smoke-like energy leaving the bones.

[Lusterless Nova]

Nova goes to the pony that he did not meet yet ((Art))
Would you mind to give me a hoof? Luckily i know how to get this train moving. Not the first time i have to operate one ((Nova really did operate one a long time ago in a RP))
By the way. My name is Lusterless Nova. Just a pony who loves adventure... and treasure. And you are?
He starts walking to the driver's cab but keeps his tempo low.

[ArtVeigar]

Sure, I help you. - Arty said, following Nova - My name is Arty, a pony who lives by himself in a cave and, with this curse, lost all his feelings and the only thing that makes him go to the unknown is a desire to aquire knowledge. I guess I'd like to say that I'm pleased to meet you.

[bleyd]

aix ok ok lets go to others

and bleyd walks to locomotive

[Lusterless Nova]

So arty it is. Okay then.
Nova reaches the driver's cab.
Let's see if this is still functional.
He checks the instruments, breaks, and the amount of coal.

[The Wandering Magus]

Feather gave a suspicious look at the black magic, and decided to leave the circle intact, since it was just drawing ambient magic rather than his own mana.  He had a nagging feeling that this was only the first of many encounters from now on.

[The Stars]

Crimson opens the door to the very last car. Walking in, the lights appeared dimmer than the rest for some odd reason. There seemed to be chair sitting in the middle, a turn table chair that appeared to have somepony sitting in it. It suddenly began to spoke, however, it sounds like a tape-recorded voice. The voice, it seemed to sound  similar to Range, yet, at the same time, sounded more distorted, a voice echoing effect carried on.
"You know, I feel I've let everypony have their fun for long enough. I watched you all prance around to Canterlot, trying to foil my plans like some big heroes, but, enough playing for now, and time to step into reality."
The voice spoke in an unusually cheery voice the entire way through, the chair slowly turning around to show it was nothing more but a pure black plush doll made to look just like Range, then suddenly every car on the train starts to light up with a  circle formation in the middle, also spawing an undefined amount of red crystals on the ground from a poof of darkness. "Welcome to your new hell, kiddos!"

Range and Crimson both take a look at the sight before them recognized what's about to happen and instinctively acted. Crimson grabbed ahold  of Bleyd as He and Range ushered everypony out the Train. Range yelled out to her friends, "Get out of here, NOW!"

[Lusterless Nova]

Nova hears Range calling from somewhere.
Arty quick! The window!
Nova opens a window and jumps out without hesitating.

[bleyd]

ok ok ok. grab me we  get out of here bleyd fly out 

(( for do any ideas jajajaja))

[The Wandering Magus]

Feather closes his eyes.  He had learned a few new tricks in the Forbidden Chambers.  As if in slow motion, a chalk draws a circle around him, with the symbol of a lion at the top, an unfinished pyramid, a snake eating its own tail, a many-sided star.  What would he sacrifice?  What would he give up?  The answer was right inside the car with him, the red crystals, the black circles, the creation of something from nothing, the breaking of Equivalent Exchange.

Whiteness.  Nothingness.  Feather blinked, looking around.  There was absolutely nothing to see in the space he was in, except himself, and a door.  A massive door, a bit taller than an Ursa Minor, covered with runes and symbols in the many languages he had studied over the years, with magical and alchemical equations denoting the fundamental principles of every branch of research, from the familiar Scroll Equations to the Laws of Thermodynamics.  All of them pointed towards the center, which remained frustratingly blurry, as if his eyes refused to let him know the ultimate Truth, the Truth he had sought all his eyes.

The Truth.  Where is it?  What is it?

The fur on the back of his neck suddenly stood on end and his pupils narrowed to a pinprick as he realized he was not alone in the vast nothingness.

[The Stars]

The Last few cars started to go up in flames. It wasn't an explosion, but a rather controlled stream of fire moving from car to Car, scorching apart everything possible Crimson, Bleyd, Price, Range, and Nova all made it out, before the flame got to touch them. Range jumps up to look inside the Window. "Scroll, Didn't you hear? Get out now! Whatever's doing this is planning to send us all up in flames!"