Chapter 2: The Arrival
In a flash a black portal that seemed to suck in all the light around it opened in the middle of the Royal Canterlot Archives. With a thundering boom a black figure is thrown out of the portal and into one of the bookshelves, making it and its contents consisting of mostly books and other documents fall on top of the figure. The force of the impact and the fall of one of the bookshelves caused other shelves to fall as well leaving the room a complete mess. With another flash the portal was gone and the room left in relative silence other than a book or pile of papers falling from their once secure positions.
Princess Celestia was currently in her personal study as she looked over some budgeting issues about a plan to renovate one of the schools that a noble presented in court. Currently the budget was set for one point eight million bits, but that wasn’t why she was reviewing the plan.
While initially looking over the paperwork it looked fine, until she noticed the people that would be doing the renovation was connected to a supplying company that the noble owned. Seeing this she decided to take it under consideration and review the plan further, and now she is glad she did.
The construction company was known for cutting corners on supplies for building and pocketing what was left of the budgeted money, which they also seem so solely buy from the nobles supply company. Coming to the conclusion of the noble setting up jobs for them the construction company makes sure they buy only from the noble, Celestia decides to rewrite the current plan into something more agreeable. After a bit of changing here and there she finally gets it to where she can happily fund the renovation of the school while also making sure it's done right.
Setting down the paperwork and getting out of her chair at the desk, Celestia walked over to the armchair and took a seat as a maid poured her a cup of tea. Lifting the tea in her golden magic, she took as sip and let her mind wonder about what her student Twilight brought to her attention this morning. After a bit there was a knock at the door which stirred from her train of thought, turning to the door she told whoever was on the other side to enter.
As the door opened she was greeted with one of her Sergeants in the guard named Thunder Struck. “Ma’am, we would like to inform you of a breach in the wards around the Royal Archives.” from the looks of the guard it would seem that it wasn’t some noble trying to get into classified documents like usual. “We have also closed off all exits and are awaiting for further instructions.”
Setting down her tea and getting to her hooves Celestia began walking out of the room and towards the archives. “Very well Sergeant Thunder, brief me on the situation as of now.” With that the Sergeant began to explain what he knew of the situation as of now as they walked to the Archives.
Groaning and pushing his way out from underneath a overturned bookshelf Cerulean looked around the mess of a room he was in. “That was… well unexpected… I don’t know whether to call the spell a failure or a success.”
After a moving to a place in the room that didn’t look like it was getting ready to collapse on him, he took a better look of the room he was in. Seeing mostly old paperwork with the word classified on them and books with names he doesn’t remember ever owning, Cerulean started to get slightly worried. “This isn’t my home is it? And from the looks of it this isn’t a place I should be. I’m starting to feel like I should consider the spell more of a failure at this point…”
Just then some noises from outside the room on the other side of the door could be heard. It sounded like the clanking of metal and hooves trotting across the floor hurriedly.
Getting the feeling he really shouldn’t be here Cerulean started to charge up his return home spell, one which he doesn’t use often for it was overly complicated and drains him of almost all his magic. But seeing the situation he was in, it was better than getting caught by whoever was on the other side of that door. In a flash he was gone zipped away by his spell to where his home should be, well in this case should would be the key word.
In another flash he was right back in the same room, thrown into one of the bookshelves which promptly fell on top of him. Groaning as he tried to pull himself out from under a shelf for the second time, he felt a pain go through his front right leg causing him to collapse. “Oh… this can’t be good.” was all he got out before the door opened and he was face to face with Princess of the Sun herself.
Cerulean's sight began to blur as the effects of using so much magic on a complex spell hit him full force. Unable to stay awake the last thing he saw was of Celestia giving orders as a couple of guards walked towards him.
Arriving at the Archives fully briefed on the situation, Celestia approached the Captain in charge. “Valiant, any further developments?”
Valiant turned away from a guard he was ordering to take position next to the door. Glancing at the door to the archives and then to Celestia he shook his head as he addressed the Princess. “No Ma’am, nothing of as of now although we heard some movement coming from inside a while ago.” turning to the door once again they started towards it.
“Very well let us go and see who decided to sneak into the archives this time.” Celestia stated as she followed him to the door.
Suddenly what sounded like one of the bookshelves falling over came from inside and Celestia took that as her cue to open the door. Greeting her as the door swung open was a mess of a room with bookshelves tipped over with books and papers all over the floor. But that wasn’t what caught her attention, no it was the huge Panther as big as she was with blue runes all over his body that was laying there in a pile underneath a bookshelf.
Quickly moving to action Celestia ordered the guards to pull him out from under the bookshelf and take him to one of the guest rooms near her own. Then telling Sergeant Thunder to run and get the on duty hospital staff right away.