//------------------------------// // Examination // Story: The Royal Trio // by Cider Hall Productions //------------------------------// "Are you sure about this sister?" Celestia asks holding up a brown leather backpack. "Listen are you sure you will be safe down in that place?" "Do you want to reconsider bringing the castle guard?" All on Celestia's mind was not of the fact that she might meet her own sibling, but that of her sisters safety. She had no idea what Luna might even see down there, when she banished some one to Tartarus she would have the castle guard transport them to their place. "Listen, I am just as sure as the sun will lower itself and just as sure the moon will rise after. I know you have your doubts and concerns, but listen I'll be fine the guard dog Cerberus will have my back I'm sure of it....I brought him a new chew toy along with me." Luna chuckles. Grabbing the backpack out of Celestia's hands, she puts the two straps over her shoulders and jumps a little to make sure it wont fall off. It was awkward for her wings to naturally fold up but they managed to do their job. "I'm sure Cerberus would show you where you need to go, that's what the guards told me after they got back from escorting Tirek to his cell." Celestia informs. "Now remember if he doesn't fit the bill leave him there, if he does well by all means bring him home.......I know this might be personal to you because of your past situation, but we need to think about the safety of our kingdom over our own personal thoughts. Just keep that in mind." Celestia warns. She pats Luna on the should and chuckles. "Are you ready?" She asks "Alright, open the gates....I'm ready as I'll ever be." Luna calls out. Celestia nods her head as a long white horn begins to come out of her skull and on top of her head, just like the guard that opened the library for them yesterday. A bright white aurora begins to swirl and twist around the horn and a beam of magic comes shooting out and onto the floor beneath their feet. Soon after a dark black dot musters up on the floor eventually forming into a large and wide portal frame, little whips of smoke and shadows spew up from the portals entrance. "Here I go, and Celestia?" Luna exclaims. "What having second thoughts already Luna?" Celestia snickers. She could tell by the way that Luna looked at the portal, she might have had a different opinion on things and wanted to just forget about the whole thing. "Don't burn down the kingdom while I'm gone." She comments. With that sentence spoken, Luna jumps right on inside the portal frame before Celestia could even think of coming up with something to fire back at the sarcastic comment. The world changed around her almost instantly, the white marble walls of her castle home quickly turned into black and jagged rocky walls that lined the underworld prison. A place where only the worst of the most hardened criminals lived to serve out their sentence in pure agony, a place where you don't age to ensure you serve the maximum amount of time you can before someone deems you fir to return. It wasn't a big underworld, it was mostly just a vast amount of space. Not like the typical children's stories where there were confusing caves and booby traps all around the world, because once that portal shut it shut for good there was no escaping this world. Only until someone reopened the portal for someone to leave, was the only time someone could escape. Or if you even had the smallest hint of magic, you could open it yourself that's why after Tirek escaped they started to put Magic cancelation rings on their horns. The prison itself was just a bunch of individual islands, with two walls on either saide of the platform. The platform itself was just a smoothed out rock, where the prisoner would be chained to. There was no magazines or furniture to accompany the prisoner just the rock floor only to greet them, its sole purpose was to drive the inhabitant mad with insanity. They had nothing other then themselves and their imaginations to accompany them through their sentence, the only type of people that could survive here was the strongest of the strong physically and mentally. Another thing about the prison was that it was eerily silent, no noise anywhere then what the prisoner would make by himself. Princess Luna was not really used to such silence hanging in the air around her, usually she was surrounded by the press asking her a bunch of questions or greedy delegates smoothing up to her in order to achieve a favor out of her grace. She really hated people like that, sure she was a princess of all but she didn't really think she was better then anybody else, the delgates on the other hand were so rich they didn't care who they disrespected on a daily basis. It was not going to be hard to spot her brother in this place, from what she knew Lord Tirek was the only sole inhabitant of Tartarus. Then based on new information presented to her through her mother's journal, she knew that theory was not true at all. So the only thing that she had to look for was just a regular man chained to the floor by a magical stake that couldn't be removed not matter how hard some one tried to. So flapping her wings hard enough to get her suspended in the air, hovering above the cells high enough to see almost everything, but also low enough to see if someone was present in that cell. Then she spotted him, he was chained to the floor just like she thought he was. Now a different thought entered her head not of talking to her brother of finding him anymore, but of what to actually come out and say to him. She couldn't just say 'Hey I'm your sister and here to see if you can come home' or 'Hey heard you tried to kill our mom' She hadn't really thought of even a sentence to say, she had been so confused on the whole new brother thing nd that new brother actually trying to overthrow their own mother. She had to think of something and quick, it wasn't going to be for too long that she actually had to return home to her own world. So coming up with a sloppy put together sentence, she hopes for the best and hovers herself down into the prison top that held her own brother. Landing down lightly and gently as to not alert him to her presence, from where she could see he was sitting against one of the rocky walls asleep and snoring away. She thought it made perfect sense, you alone for vast amounts of time and left with nothing to do while your there, why not fall asleep and catch up on some. His overall appearance was threating enough, he wore large and bulky metal armor painted black that covered his whole body from chest to toe, he had shortened black hair and no facial hair. Just by the looks of him you knew he had to be strong, strong enough to even walk around with all that armor on his body. She gently took the leather backpack and held one of the straps within her hand, then an idea occurred to her...Why not just wake him up by just tossing the backpack on his chest, it would scare the shit out of him and get him to wake up to the point where they could talk. "Rise and shine." She exclaims tossing the bag on top of his metal plated chest. Stirring from his sleep, Diablo shoots his eyes open and immediately jumps up to his feet. For all he knew it could have been one of the rocks from the ceiling dropping onto him but being declined by bouncing off of his armor, but no standing in front of him was a girl in a blue sundress with blue hair. A stark and sudden realization hits him its not just any random girl it had to be another alicorn they were the only one with the magic to open the portal, and the only other alicorns beside him that was his sisters and mother. So instead of a frightened stance a wide smile forms across his lip while he folded his arms. "Either I'm dreaming or fate be kind enough to bless me with the presence that of a familiar face." He comments. "Surely you grown up oh dear sister of mine, but a question faces you dear girl what is it you ask of me?" He asks. "How do you know who I am, I may not just be your sister?" Luna comments. She was actually pretty surprised that he recognized her so fast. "The only girl I know with hair flowing like the stars in the night sky, would be that of my own family." Diablo. "So the question remains, what in hell's fire brought you here....Lunar Moon." Diablo asks growing a little impatient. "I go by Luna." She chuckles. "To fully answer your question, it was you that brought me here." Luna responds. "How so, for I have been locked away for such time that I have yet to send home mother a postcard." Diablo states sarcastically. "We went through mothers journal---" She gets cut off by Diablo midsentence. "Surely a capital sin dear sister." He chuckles. "To look for some advice that she might have left behind for us, when we did Celestia found a couple pages torn out of the book, the 4th chapter. Belonging to none other then Diablo Ignite, we read the passages she wrote about you." Luna informs. "Ah, I read a few of the passages myself. Very good story teller dear mother she was, but honestly is that the only way you found out of your long long long lost brother of the royal sword?" Diablo asks curiously. "Yes, we read after you tried to overthrow her she used a memory erase spell on us to make us forget anything about you." Luna responds. "Well then allow me to inform you of what you missed dear sister, I raised you both myself for 5-8 moons taking care of your needs fooling around with you both out in the castles garden and tucking you into your beds at the suns fall reading you stories of old and knights in shinning armor vanquishing the dragon." Diablo recalls. "That was many millennia ago." "But why? Why did you grow cold to us and her?" Luna asks curiously. "It be a demons nature to be, I honestly thought if she was going to run the kingdom with a soft fist there would be many kingdoms who will take it as a weakness and come to see us through. She was soft on everyone, I kept the illusion in my mind that if she rules soft she will be knocked through the doors of her own castle." "So you tried to do it to help her out?" Luna exclaims. It was actually starting to make a little sense to her now, he truly cared about his mother he did what he thought was best for her and in return he got sent here for conspiracy to kill and take over the throne. "Wait wait wait....In the page it said you sword fought to a stalemate, how would you explain that?" "She mistook that I was coming for her life her after I busted open the doors, we fought in self defense I assure you." Diablo explains. Unfolding his hands he then grasps them behind his back, away from her sight eventually crossing his fingers with deception. Luna smiled and folded her arms, "Would you like to come back home?" She offers. "Mother is gone now just me and my Celestia reign the land of Equestria." "It would be of my most pleasure to come reign by my families side, I feel we might have a lot of catching up to do...Dear sister." Diablo chuckles. "Do tell how is your big sister Celestial Sun?" "She goes by Celestia now, she has to many tasks and duties to perform we are overloaded with them on a daily basis." Luna whines with a smile. "Well then, I might be to assist in taking off the stress." Diablo offers. "Well first we will have to see what she says, but for now allow me to do this." Luna informs as her own horn forms up on her own head. With a dark blue aurora her horn shoots a beam of magic that breaks off part of the chain that kept him tied to the ground. She knew Celestia was going to be thrilled at the homecoming of their brother, then again she might not because of the explanation that she did not receive....It was going to be one heck of a lunch time.