//------------------------------// // Chapter Two: The life of the Sonitus // Story: The Legend of the Sonitus // by Daviez //------------------------------// Years later after the Sonitus was made, the Royal family prescribed the training of the little fillies for their future missions. To be able to hold their own in hoof to hoof combat, if something would go bad on a mission, their leaders and the highest positioned guards trained them in combat. A couple of months later almost all of them were bored of the training and some of them really hated it, since it always started early in the morning before the sun came up every day. The only one who loved training was Tinax. However, Palor completely hated it, she was always a lazy one. "Wake up everypony! Training time! " Tinax shouted to wake up her sisters. "The sun isn't even up yet! Let me sleep" Palor answered tiredly. "Let us sleep; I'm totally bored of these early morning trainings…" said Risla while she threw a pillow at Tinax "…why do we even have to train in the early morning?" continued Risla. Fidelia sighed and said, "Guys…we do the same thing every morning, just get up and go. It's not like I like training, I just don't want to get punished because of it." So they all prepared themselves and went to do the training, again. "You know Concia, do you know what the best part about training every day?" Palor asked during the training. "Um, no. What?" Concia asked interested. "We are all immortal." Palor answered, and laughed. "Wow. Joke of the year Palor…" said Concia bored. Training was almost the same every day and it took 7 hours with very few breaks. They usually arrived home an hour before lunch. After they had lunch, for the first time the Royal family allowed them to leave Canterlot castle. When they heard this, they all were surprised. A royal guard holding something arrived to their room. "Ladies, take these before you all leave the castle, please!" said the royal guard. Fidelia went to the guard and took the stuff and checked it. "Capes. Are you kidding me? We all should wear these white capes outside?" said Fidelia disappointingly. "I'm sorry. I only fulfill the command of the Royal family. I think they don't want you all to draw any attention to the public with your marks." said the royal guard. "Yeah, I guess wearing a white cape all over your body is not conspicuous at all, but at least they don't see our marks." Fidelia answered. After they got their capes, they were really disappointed that they had to hide themselves, although a little bit they understood from their point of view too. But this went away fast, because they all were happy right after they went outside. Finally they saw some normal, not royal family members, not guards or wizards; just simple normal ponies in Canterlot. Their time was limited outside, because nopony could know their existence, though a few times many other ponies asked them why they wore white capes. They were happy that they could be outside from the castle, but after several times the cape started to annoy them. One day they had a debate because of it before they went out. "Okay guys, you are all ready?" Firoxia asked them. "Yep", "Yes", "I'm ready" they answered. "Okay, then just a few minutes and we are allowed to-" Firoxia stopped and looked at Fidelia "Fidelia, why aren't you wearing your cape?" "I...um... I lost it" "It's behind you on your bed." "Um… it's too small…" "It was good for you yesterday." "The fabric, I'm itching from it" "Nothing's wrong with it put on your cape already!" said Firoxia angrily. "But I don't want to!" Fidelia shouted at Firoxia "Why do we have to wear these all the time? Why? Everypony is just asking us why do we wear them, what's the matter with us! Where we are from! What are we!?! Everyone is just staring at us every time we go out like they never saw a pony in their life! I've had enough of it!" "Oh yeah? Do you think it is a pleasure for me or for any of us to wear them? I and all your other sisters hate it too, like you, but we still wear them, because we have to! What do you think you would say to the ponies out there? You would say that "Oh, hello stranger I'm a spy pony we were magically made by the Royal family so we are not even normal ponies with magical abilities to stalk and spy on other ponies all over Equestria just for fun" or what?" A moment of silence later: "I-I'm sorry sis, you know this just annoyed me, I thought that you are all okay with this cape thing, but I guess I was wrong. Forgive me" Fidelia answered thoughtfully. "No problem, sis, but please don't forget that we are sisters and also a team, let us know if something bothers you." *Group hug* At least they had a good place to be at, a confectionery. The stallion who had owned the confectionery was a brother of a royal guard and he knew who they were and why are they wearing capes, so he informed the costumers to not ask them why do they have to wear capes or ask any strange question about them. Many weeks later after this incident a part of Canterlot accepted them as they were and they didn't ask them anymore questions and this highly supported their integration. Months of trainings later they were ready for their first mission and the Royal family commanded them. "Okay guys, so they appointed me to be the leader of the team during our first mission, so follow me." said Stratin. They went to Everfree Forest and before they went in Stratin discussed the tactics: "Listen up! Before we go in, I must tell you the mission objectives. We are looking for a small lodge somewhere inside the forest. It is unknown that are there any pony or any other creature inside or around it. Anything that owns the lodge is trying to hide something from the Royal family. We don't know if it is safe or not. We have to look around and know what's going on there. That's all. Everything clear? ". "Well, because I guess we will go in camouflage I know that no one will see us, but here comes the problem, how will we see each other? We never tried this out." Pruden asked. "Hmm, although we never tried it out, but in theory we should be able to see each other, because a camouflaged pony can see another pony in camouflage. But let's try it out here. Camouflage up! " said Stratin and they all went into camouflage "Okay I can see everyone, though not totally clearly, but not a problem. Okay be ready guys, don't forget to avoid bushes, they make loud noises, so let's go!" And they all went into the dark Everfree Forest in the hope they will find the small lodge. They moved slowly, to not make noises because of the environment. Half an hour had elapsed and they found a dark greenish colored small lodge. By its color maybe someone really wanted to hide it. They approached the lodge and they saw dim lights coming out of its window. Firoxia went under the window and looked in. Palor started to walk backward, but she accidentally stepped on a branch and it made a loud crack sound. Immediately an unknown pony looked out of the window, he looked into Feroxia eyes, she was just centimeters away from the unknown pony, then he just turned around and went back inside. Feroxia was scared, but luckily she remembered that she was still camouflaged and the other pony couldn't see her. She slowly started to go back to her sisters and then they left the place. "I've never been so scared in my life." said Feroxia. "This was really close, it's fortunate that we can be invisible" Tinax replied. "Okay, calm down sis. Can you tell us what happened inside there?" Stratin asked. "You won't believe me, but the only things I could see inside there were…" "Were what?" Palor interrupted. "Pies." "PIES!?" Everyone asked loudly. "Yes, pies, a lot of pies everywhere. The light was come from their oven." "And could you hear them? What did they say?" Stratin asked her. "They didn't say anything." "Then…ugh… then why were you staying so long at the window?" "Those pies looked so delicious." said Feroxia with a big smile on her face. Straton couldn't say anything else, she couldn't take it anymore and just simply facehoofed herself, and they went back to the castle. After the mission, because Straton was the team leader for that time, she had to make a report to the Royalty. Well everyone could agree in that it was quite awkward. Their first mission was done, and later they got many others and they all were successful. One day the Royal family separated them, so they all had their own rooms next to each other. It was a nice day, their life day by day were almost the same, so they were happy about it; finally something unusual and new happened. Couple of weeks later something happened. One night Palor was coming up to her room over the hallway with some snacks and some drinks as she usually did when she noticed something. She heard something or somepony. The voice came from their rooms, so she checked them, she checked all except her room the last room was Fidelia's room, so she went in, she saw that Fidelia was twitching in her bed, she was crying and she constantly said: "Why? Why? Why? No this is can't be." Palor went to her and tried to wake her up. "No this is can't be. No. No. NOOOO-" screamed Fidelia and then she woke up. "Sister, are you okay? What happened?" – Palor asked. "I-I had a horrible nightmare." said Fidelia gaspingly as she was scared. "Okay, it's alright sister. Calm down, it's over now" said Palor.