Shadows of the Bloodmoon

by Shadowcorn

Chapter 5: Summary

Chapter 5: Summary

When the train coming out of Canterlot arrived at the train station of the Chrystal Empire Princess Cadance waited already with 8 royal gueards.

“Sometimes I ask myself how we always know where the train carriage our guest are in will arrive.“, a guard whispered towards another guard.

“Don’t think about it. Better like this than having to walk towards the train carriage.“, the second guard whispred back.

And, as always, the princess and her guards stood right in front of where the train carriage with the princesses, Mane Six and Spike arrived.

“Thanks for your quick coming. The situation is very serious.“, Cadance welcomed them.

Sometime later they arrived at the castle. And still a bit later they entered the medic station. Flash Sentry sit on the bed and still spoke the two sentences.

“He sits here and always says this two sentences since last night. He didn’t sleep, eat drink or stop talking. We also have no idea what the intruder did to him. No doctor knew a medizin or healing spell. It could be that they aren’t powerful enough, too. So I tried. And he did a short rest before continuing. That means the spell is working but no one around here is powerful enough. Lieutanant Guarding Filly had the idea that maybe every alicorn princess in Equestria is able to brak this mysterious spell.“

“It’s worth a try.“, Celestia said.

The three other alicorns put their horns at Cadance’ horn who activated the spell, a white ball of light. They send it towards Flash Sentry’s head. When they came into contect the white light shone for a very short period of time. Flash Sentry stoped talking, closed his eyes, fell on his back and fell into sleep. Although the whole thing only took some minutes but the princesses were a bit tired after it.

“Now since that is done I have a tiny little question: What is with this intruder you talked about?“, Twilight asked.

“Come with me to the conference room. There we will talk about everything.“, Cadance answered.

In the conference room an unicorn guard already waited with some papers. When the guests entered the room she bowed down quickly. Answering Twilight‘s asking look Cadance said:

“May I introduce to you: Lieutanant Guarding Filly, head of the royal guard until Captain Flash Sentry is healed. She was the one noticing the intruder. And now she will present to us the results of our analysing team.“

“Yes, your highness. At first we thought about how the intruder came in here without any guard noticing him or her. Except me that is. That means the person has to be a pro at stealing and has to be able to use a spell to come into a place unnoticed. Such spells are usually used by agents. That means he or she could be an apostate agent or an agent who works for an. That also could be the explanation for his ability to intrude unnoticed and why he or she didn’t run away or stand down when the Captain noticed him or her.
Next is the species: The intruder used a horn. That means he or she can only be an unicorn, an alicorn or a changeling. Alicorns were included the moment the idea came up since there are only four alicorns in Equestria and non of you is known to be evil. Since the intruder used spells he or she is propably an unicorn. It is possible that he or she belongs to a new kind of changelings which can use spells, too. But that is less likely.
And at last the spells: The intruder used magical blasts as well as three unknown spells. Since the blasts caused explosions they have to be very powerful. Looking at the unknown spells: We know absolutly nothing about the spell the intruder used on Flash Sentry. It could be a completly new spell since we haven't found any spell like it. The second spell could freeze ponys. We learned that it counts as a magic called ‘Elemantary Magic‘. This magic hasn’t been used in Equestria for thousands of years and its knowledge is considered lost. The last spell is completly new as well. It makes everything completly dark for a short time which-“

“COMPLETLY DARK?! A spell which makes everything so dark that no pony can see anything?!“, Twilight asked excited.

Everypony looked at her confused.

“Y-yes your majesty. It was completly dark like no pony ever saw. Do you know something about it?“

“Sadly not much. Yesterday night I have seen a quiet, dark mist moving through Ponyville. In there I have seen a figure moving with the mist. When it noticed me a head with a pair of red eyes rose up from the mist and send out some kind of ‘black light‘. It made everything dark for a short time. When it disappeared the mist and the figure disappeared, too.“

“The intruder disappeared after the black light, too! That means our theory is right: The intruder had a partner! They propably came into the castle through this mist unnoticed!“, Guarding Filly determined excited.

“A dark mist?!“, Apple Jack suddendly asked.

“Did you see it, too?“

“No. But Apple Bloom did. It has been some month. She told me she would have seen it at the edge of our farm. Also, she told me it stole apples. The apples were gone but I thought somepony else stole them.“

“Did something was stolen in this case?“, Fluttershy asked.

“Some books. I know neither their topics nor their titles. Except one I have seen randomly. The title was: ‘The bloodmoon and its secret‘.“

“The bloodmoon?!“, Celestia called out.

Since it is rare seeing Celestia loosing her composure everypony looked at her even more confused than when Twilight lost her.

“Is something wrong?“, Luna asked.

“Don’t you remember? When we were children?“

“What did you experience in your childhood?“, Twilight asked.

“In our childhood we lived in a castle with other alicorns. One night changelings attacked. Many alicorns died that night. And the rest…Well Discord was bad. Terror was far worst. Also in this night Luna and I were attacked, too. But Starswirl saved us every time. He explained to us that the changelings attacked us because of the bloodmoon which apperently increases dark magic. Fortunatly no one can tell when it will rise up exactly.“

“Yeah, about that, well: I have asked our astrologers about the bloodmoon and they said it will rise again in a few days..“, Guarding Filly said a bit hesitantly.

“And you haven’t mentioned it up to know WHY exactly?!“

“How should I know that this ONE heavenly body actually has a special effect on us?! Neither the sun nor the moon have one!“

“Point taken. In conclusion: We have to deal with two thieves of an unknown species with mysterios magical abilities stealing books. We should inform every library in Equestria to keep an extra eye open. I doubt they will be satisfied with what they stole from us. Especially since they got interrupted. Command to every security team in our kingdoms: If they see one of them they shall inprison them immediatly. Agreed?“, Cadance asked.

“Agreed!“, everypony said before leaving the room.