the next morning
*Knock! Knock!*
“Who the… *Yawn!* heck would be knocking at this hour?” Groaning, I got to my hooves, and after taking the form of Mirage, made my way to the door, still somewhat sleepy. Opening it, I gave a rather scathing glare to the inconsiderate dumbass that woke me so early.
“Uh, I have a delivery here for a Mirage Lulamoon?”
“Uggg. Yes, thats me. I wasn’t expecting a delivery, let alone this early in the morning. Whos it from?”
“Chrysanthemum.” Chrysante- oh, OH! Clever girl… Chrysalis seems to know what shes doing with being subtle.
“Oh, her! I’ve known her by her nickname Chryssy for so long, I practically forgot it was a nickname!”
“Really?” He reached into his bag and pulled out a package the size of an old dictionary, and handed it to me.
“Yes, really.” Now what could it be…? “Now if you'll excuse me, I’m going back to sleep.” I then shut the door, quietly making my way to the kitchen. Setting the package on the table, I quickly tore the wrapping off, exposing an old, large brown cloth book, with no title or other kind of identifying feature. picking the book up to get a better idea of how old it might be, something slipped out from between the pages. It was a letter.
Shinkiro
I am severly disappointed in hearing that you let somepony see your true face, not only are just a few ponies aware, but the local guards are as well because of your… outburst. Because of this, I can no longer let my agents near you. For the time being.
None the less, the princesses have yet to hear of this because of me. You are welcome, and I expect you to repay me.
At the guard barracks in Filly Delphia are some letters and forum papers. I want you to get any of them pertaining to a Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, I need to see them. That is all you need to know.
Don’t get caught, Don’t be seen.
There was another small piece of paper in the letter that said, ‘Thanks for saving me. -Hardshell’ so that’s the name of the changeling I saved in the freezer. I wondered what happened to him. If I ever actually meet the guy, I’ll have to thank him for sticking me in that pod. But anyways, Chrysalis is moving forward with her plans now, and she knows about that incident with the thugs. Just wonderfull.
*Knock! Knock!*
“Oh for the… Can’t a mare get some freaking sleep!” Trudging to the door once again, I all but threw it open, to be greeted by a duo of rather unamused guards. “Oh… Joy. Are you two here because of some exceptionally drunken act of stupidity my friends may have performed during their night out?” The guards simply glanced at each other, and I sensed a bit of cautiousness coming from them.
“Perhaps. We wanted to ask you if you heard anything last night. Several were killed. We also want to ask you not to leave yet, until we sort this out.” Figures. Of course the one that got away went straight to the authorities.
“K- Killed!?”
“That’s right ma’am, we know you and your other companions are travelers so wanted to make sure you don’t leave just yet.”
I groaned. “I had a schedule I needed to stick to as well… Hopefully I don’t get too much grief for having to delay my next few shows.”
“We know Ma’am and we’re sorry, but we need to make sure we catch the killer and we can’t leave anypony out.”
“As much as this inconveniences me, I understand. I’d be more worried if you didn’t.”
“Again. If you heard anything, or notice anything out of the ordinary, let us know.”
“I’ll be sure to let you know if anything comes up, now is there anything else you need? because I would rather not get woken up a third time.”
“A third time?”
“Yeah, I got an early morning delivery.”
“Very well ma’am, we’ll be on our way. Have a good day.”
“A good day to you too.” With that, I bid the duo farwell, and shut the door behind me. Returning to the kitchen, I picked up the book I had received, and flipped it open to the first page.
”This book will act as my journal and diary as I research the bases of summons and magic constructs I call ‘familiars’...
*Meanwhile, with the guards*
“So, miss Cheer, what exactly occurred during the show those traveling performers put on?”
“Oh, it was fantastic! First, Trixie did all these cool tricks with her magic and there were fireworks and she told us all these grand tails -which I don’t think were true- like how she took down an ursa major! So cool! And at the end, she said she was going to summon the spirit of Nightmare Moon, which kinda scared me, there was the cercle rune thing that I didn’t notice was on the floor of her stage and it started glowing and then there was this HUGE pillar of light that turned black, and there was Nightmare Moon! Right in front of us, and the two did battle! It was awesome! And when Nightmare Moon lost she cursed Trixie and disappeared. We gave her our bits for the show and Nightmare Moon came back out on stage and bowed to the audience, then she burst into blue flames and this purple mare was standing there instead! She had used her magic to turn into Nightmare Moon! I so wish I could do that, it was awesome!”
I glanced at my partner and back at Cheer. “You said she burst into blue flames?”
“Yeah, I figured it was some effect she does to make her transformations more flashy at the end of the show.”
“Thank you for your time, that was quite informative.”
“No problem. Can I ask, why do you want to know about them? Did they do something?”
“We’re not sure, that’s why we wanted to know. farewell.”