In Canterlot...
Celestia's sun was shinning down upon the city of Canterlot, as a few ponies were doing their daily errands. Two ponies where making there way to the local library. The names of these two ponies, were Cloudy Arrow, and TriforceAndroid, two of Celestia's most royal guards.
"Wait, so why are we going to the library to look for Blueblood?" TriforceAndroid asked his partner, who looked at him with a clever looking smile.
"Blueblood says that he hates the library, right?" Cloudy Arrow asked, to which TriforceAndroid nodded his head. "Well, one day I caught him leaving the library. He never goes there at all, not even if Celestia asks him too, he must be hiding something there." TriforceAndroid realized he was right. He heard that Blueblood was going there nearly every single day.
"Your right, that makes a lot of sense, lets go." TriforceAndroid said, now with enthusiasm.
"We weren't going to stop, but okay..." Cloudy Arrow chuckled, as their destination slowly came into view.
"Whatever Blueblood's doing, it can't be worse than what that John human did to Zachary." TriforceAndroid said, looking at Cloudy Arrow. "That's his name, right?"
"Yes, that's his name." Cloudy Arrow replied, looking at his partner, with an unreadable expression. "In my opinion, John deserved what happened. He should have never came here in the first place, and he should have never done what he did, even if it was for something like revenge." He took a breath, before continuing.
"It took that human child so long to recover, I heard that the element's of harmony had to help him through all of that, like giving him therapy sessions, and you know, just trying to talk to him, to get him to think that it wasn't his fault which it wasn't. Nopony should ever have to go through such pain, and nopony should ever cause that type of pain either." Cloudy Arrow said, taking in a breath of air.
"Crimes like that are unheard of in Equestria, but I guess that's something that other humans in that world have to go through... But.... I can't help but to wonder why other ponies have been disappearing either....." TriforceAndroid said, looking down at the ground with a sorrowful expression, due to the fact that one of the ponies he was close too had disappeared, and the fact that Zachary went through so much pain, and the possibility that's what humans go through everyday, but he soon shook those thoughts away. "Anyway, we're here..."
Cloudy Arrow looked at the direction the library would normally be in, and saw the building, but he noticed something in the window. Blueblood was in there, and he was just about to walk out.
"Triforce, hide!" Cloudy Arrow shouted in a half whisper, as they both hid behind a random bush that was luckily there. As they hid, a certain spoiled prince came out of the building, looking happy, like he just accomplished something.
"What are you up too......?" Cloudy Arrow asked himself, his voice trailing off as soon as he could no longer see Blueblood. This was their time to strike.
"He's gone, let's go!" TriforceAndroid said, Cloudy Arrow nodding his head in agreement. They got out of their hiding places, slowly, but carefully as to not get poked by any of the branches that were also hiding in the bush. When they finally got out, they faced the direction of the library, before going towards it, sprinting full way.
"We're here, let's get inside." Cloudy Arrow said, TriforceAndroid nodding in agreement. They entered the building, still in their guard suits. Once the librarian noticed them, she put a smile onto her muzzle.
"Welcome to Canterlot library, can I help you guards with anything?" She asked, with a pleasant tone of voice.
"Yeah, we we're wondering what Prince Blueblood was doing here just now. What was he doing?" Cloudy Arrow asked, and the librarian quickly replied.
"Oh.... He was just.... Picking up some books! Yeah.... That's it....." She replied, her tone being replaced with a nervous, shacked tone. TriforceAndroid gave her a suspicious look.
"We didn't see Blueblood with any books..... Are you lying to us....?" He asked, making it obvious that he was onto her.
"Wh-what? Why would I ever lie to a royal guard, such as you-yourself?" She replied, in a quit nervous tone that Fluttershy normally spoke in.
"Ma'am, we need to have a look around this place, just to be sure that the prince hasn't been up to anything bad since he was here." Cloudy Arrow stated, and in return, she just nodded her head slowly. They then walked further into the library. There were halls of shelf's, each stacked with all sorts of different books, from adventure, to comedy, you name it.
"Is it just me, or was their something up with that librarian?" Cloudy Arrow asked TriforceAndroid, who nodded in response.
"It's not just you, there IS something up with her, and I tend to find out what..." He said, as he looked back at the librarian, who had returned to reading her book.
"Well, it could have something to do with Blueblood..." Cloudy Arrow said. "I guess we're going to find out soon." They made it to the first hall of shelves, where they began to start their search for clues. They went through all the books, trying to find something, whether it was in the books themselves, or just behind the books on the shelve, they had to find something on why Blueblood was acting the way he was.
In another area of Canterlot....
Meanwhile, there was another group of ponies, who were searching for something different. They were searching for the missing parents of Twilight Sparkle, who more than anything else at that moment, wanted to find them. They had been searching for hours, and yet, they just couldn't come up with anything to find.
Their search had started at her parents house, when they didn't find anything that could help them there, they looked at locations that were close to her parents home, like an alleyway, and other things like that. However, sadly to them, their search came to a close when everypony started to get tired, and they weren't able to come up with anything.
"Twilight... We've been searching all day." Rainbow Dash commented. "I don't think that we're going to find anything right now... We should look tomorrow." Twilight looked back at her, with tired eyes, but she knew that Rainbow was right. They had been looking all day, and she herself was starting to get tired as well.
"I guess.... I guess your right..." Twilight replied, as she let out a sigh of sorrow. She really wanted to find her parents today, she HAD to find them today, but she guess that just wasn't happing, not today anyway.
"Come on, Twilight." Spike said, placing a claw on her foreleg. "Lets get back to the room." She in response, just slowly nodded her head.
Mom.... Dad, wherever you are.... I'll find you soon... Twilight said to herself in her thoughts, as they all made their way back to Canterlot castle. She let Zachary climb onto her back, and as they walked, Twilight couldn't help but to let out a smile, as the child who was beginning to fall asleep on her back.
Even though my parents are missing.... I'm still grateful to have him.... Twilight said, growing a small smile, before frowning a bit. But..... These ponies just can't all disappear without a reason, somepony must be taking them, it happened to my parents, I wont let it happen to my friends, or Spike, or even Zachary. She turned around to him once again, still in his sleeping form.
"I'm so tired.... I could just fall asleep right here if I wanted too....." Rainbow said, as she yawned loudly.
"Yeah! Me too!" Pinkie said, with her usual hyper active self.
"But your.... Never mind....." Rainbow replied, sighing as her voice trailed off. There was no point of arguing with Pinkie.
"We're here." Rarity said, as she pointed a hoof at the large castle itself. Twilight looked up at it, grateful to be back there, but worried to ask Celestia if she or Luna knew anything about what was going on. As they reached the inside of the castle, so did two other ponies, however, these one's were guard ponies.
"I can't believe that we couldn't find anything at the library!" Cloudy Arrow said, annoyed at the fact that there was not even a single trace of Blueblood in that place.
"We'll have better luck next time, alright?" TriforceAndroid said, as he too was disappointed that they couldn't find anything at all to help their case.
"Let's just get back to the castle, I guess..." Cloudy Arrow said. As they walked, another pony was coming up to them, and that pony was prince Blueblood.
"Hey, how are my two favorite royal guards doing?" He asked, putting on the fakest smile that you would ever see in your life time.
"What do you want, Blueblood?" Cloudy Arrow basically growled at them, not wanting to have any sort of contact with the spoiled prince standing in front of him.
"I'm just wondering if you heard that Zachary kid say anything about me, you know, how cool I am, and what not." Blueblood replied, and the facial expression the two guards put on, were both disgust, and yet, they were trying to hold back some of their laughter.
"You think your cool?" TriforceAndroid asked, trying his best to hold back his laughter in that sentence.
"Yes, of course I think I'm cool, I'm a prince, after all." Blueblood replied, breaking the guards will to hold back there laughter, as they both just let it out right in front of him.
"Your... Not that cool, Blueblood. If you were, then you wouldn't be mean to everypony, now would you?" Cloudy Arrow said, causing Blueblood's face to contort into anger.
"You will not say such things about me, you peasants ! I'm the nicest prince in all of Equestria!" Blueblood shouted.
"If that were true, then why did you just call us peasants?" TriforceAndroid asked, as Blueblood just stared gaggers at him as a response.
"Forget you two, I have better things to do then to just talk to you." He said, as he walked away from the two guards, as they looked at each other.
"Blueblood is going to do something, isn't he?" Cloudy Arrow asked, with a sigh, and TriforceAndroid just nodded his head in agreement.
"Come on, lets see what he's going to try and do." He said, as Cloudy nodded in agreement.
Meanwhile, in the castle, Twilight was walking back to her room, Zachary still sleeping on her back, and Spike walking by beside her.
"That was a cool dinner." Spike said, as he rubbed his stomach. Twilight smiled at him.
"You might of eaten a little too much, Zachary hardly ate at all, he was so tired when we woke him up." Twilight giggled a bit.
"Hey Twilight!" A voice called out from behind them. They both turned around, only to be greeted by Prince Blueblood, who was walking towards them, with a somewhat happy look on his face.
"What do you want Blueblood?" Twilight asked, annoyed at him for interrupting their walk back to the room.
"Zachary is such a cool child, isn't he?" Blueblood asked, with a nervous smile on his face, trying to not look nervous.
"Yes he is," Twilight replied. "I should know, I am his adopted mother." Blueblood nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, too bad he doesn't have a father." Blueblood said, as he sighed, then looked down at Twilight. "I want to "help" you raise him.
"What?!" Twilight and Spike said in surprise, trying to keep their voices down as to not wake Zachary.
"Yeah, I mean, he can come to Canterlot on the week days, and you can have him on the weekends and-"
"No!" Twilight said, growling as she said that. Blueblood was taken aback by this.
"But, but why not?" He asked, causing Twilight to stomp her hoof down.
"Because I don't trust you with him!" Twilight replied, doing the best to keep her voice down. "After the way you treated Rarity at the Gala, and the fact that you are extremely spoiled, I can't trust you with him! Why would you even want to do this task anyway?!" Blueblood took a few hoof steps back against the wall.
"Because... Because I think it would be cool to watch over a kid that's a different species?" Blueblood had hoped that this would work, but all he was awarded with a scowl from Twilight.
"No chance, Blueblood." Twilight said, and looked down at Spike, who was giving Blueblood a similar look. "If I ever needed someone to watch him or take care of him, it would probably be Spike, or one of my friends." That's when Spike decided to speak up.
"Yeah, I wouldn't ever trust you either, sorry but your just not good at these types of things, I guess..." Spike said, with a half apologetic look, but the other half was annoyance at the fact that Blueblood was still bothering them. He huffed, with a defeated sigh, he began to walk away.
"Fine, it's your loss anyways..." Blueblood said, and with that, he just began to walk away.
"Well, that was weird- OW!" Twilight was cut off, when she felt a small sting coming from inside the back of her neck. She turned around, only to see Blueblood, who was still walking away, though he was pouting about his defeat with Twilight Sparkle.
"Twilight? What's wrong?" Spike asked, concern over taking his voice. Twilight rubbed the back of her neck, making what was left of the stinging pain disappear.
"Nothing, just felt a little pain in my neck, though I wonder where it came from..." She replied, looking at the sleeping figure that still resided on her back. "Anyway.... Lets just get back to our room." Spike nodded, before he noticed something. Twilights friends were missing.
"Hey Twi... Why aren't your friends with us? They're on the same floor that were on...." Spike asked, Twilight already having the answer to his question, replied.
"They came up before us, remember? They're already in their rooms, and their probably already asleep." Twilight said, as she and Spike continued their walk back to the room. Once they finally got to their destination, they opened the door, leading them into the room that belonged to them at that moment in time.
"We're... Here...." Spike said, he too was getting a little, well not a little, but really light headed. "Zachary has the right idea... I think I'm going to go to bed now....." He yawned, as he walked over to his basket, and rested his body upon the small mattress. "Good night Twilight..." With that, his body went into shut down mode, as he went into the realm of dreams.
"Good night to you too, Spike." Twilight said, putting on a smile of her own, as she then turned to her bed, and walked over to it. She placed Zachary down on his left side on the bed, as she too crawled in with him.
"Good night... Mommy..." Zachary said, though he was still mostly asleep. It was just like one of the nights they shared together, he said the same thing, before they were thrown into the nightmare, in which they escaped from, luckily.
"I love you too, sweetie..." Twilight said, as she placed a wing onto him. She gave him a light kiss on the forehead. "Mommy loves you too...." After that, she too fell into the lands of dreams.
Hours later...
Zachary began to stir in his sleep, as his body began to get feeling once again. He moved around his bed, as he sat up, then looked around. He saw Spike, who was sound asleep in his bed. The sun was rising, as the light went through the window, and revealed the spot next to Zachary's. It was empty.
"Mom....?" Zachary tried to call out, but got nothing but the silence as a response. He was confused, so he got up and walked over to Spike. He pocked the sleeping dragon, as he too began to awake from his restful sleep.
"Uh.... What is it?" He asked, as he rubbed his eyes. He noticed Zachary looking down at him, with a concern look on his face. "What's wrong?" Zachary looked behind him.
"Mom is missing." He said. This got Spikes attention.
"What do you mean she's missing? She was here just last night, how could she be gone?" Spike asked, and Zachary just shook his head.
"I don't know... Should we check downstairs?" He asked, and Spike nodded.
"Yeah, she just might of gotten up early, or something." He said, as he got up. They walked out the door, and into the main hallway. They walked, into the got into the main dinning hall, and saw Twilight's friends, along with Celestia, but there was no Twilight.
"Have any of you seen Twilight?" Spike asked.
"Yeah, we couldn't find her anywhere..." Zachary said, as he looked at her friends, with concern in his eyes. They all looked at each other, with an uneasy feeling rising inside of them.
"Sugarcube.... We haven't seen her all morning..." Applejack said. Zachary had a look of worry on his face
"Then... Where is she....?" He asked, with a concern tone. Nopony at that table knew....