The Creature

by SirVindicator


When In Trouble, Call (Too Loudly) Upon A (Former) Princess

A few hours later...

"I could not find anything about what this creature is in the library." said Starlight

“So how in Equestria are we supposed to catch that creature now?” asked Moon Dancer.

“I believe Luna mentioned something about a royal night patrol and while she's not a princess anymore, she's still managing them until she can find a captain. We could just have Trixie fall asleep and have her contact Luna in the dream world.” said Starlight.

“You think that you would have had a captain already.” Tempest said with look of disappointment. She continued asking “Also, how do you know that she will show up? She has many ponies and other creatures to help in the dream world.”

“Why does it have to be me?” asked Trixie.

“Because no one can attract an audience like you can and we need to get Luna quickly before that creature finds someone else and does whatever it plans to do to Twilight to them.” said Starlight

Starlight then prepared to cast a sleep spell on Trixie.

“I'm not sure this is such a good idea can't someone else--” said Trixie

*ZAP*

*Trixie is out like a light*

“Now all we have to do is wait until Trixie can get in contact with Luna in the dream world.” said Starlight

Meanwhile in the dream world. Trixie is in front of a large audience about to perform her final trick for magic show.

She says, "And now for my final trick, I will shake the very fibers of this realm with music."

Then suddenly out of nowhere she is holding an electric guitar, a microphone and next to her are some loud speakers attached to a sound system with the ability to crank the volume to up to 11, which she does.

"Watch and be AMAAAAAAZED!" Trixie yells into the microphone while playing her electric guitar.

The entire realm that she's in shakes violently as the dream audience is blown away. Suddenly a black portal opens on stage where Trixie is and everything else disappears. Luna walks through the portal and everything is now quiet.

"What is meaning of this?!? Are you trying to make me deaf with that horrible noise?!?" Luna says absolutely peeved.

"Oh sorry about that I wasn't sure how else to contact you through the dream world." Trixie said apologetically

"You could have just had a nightmare and waited for me to respond, or sent a letter or you know ANYTHING other than what you just did!!" Luna shouted.

"Starlight wants you to meet her back in the real world, it's an emergency."

“Ok.” Luna says rubbing her head.

Later back in the real world after the ringing in Luna's ears had subsided, she appeared in the castle library where Starlight in the hours were. Starlight explained the situation to Luna, the creature and its plans with Princess Twilight and thought that maybe her patrol would have seen something.

"I see...some monstrosity is after Twilight...and you want to see if my patrol have seen anything, correct?" Luna said gathering her thoughts.

"Yes I really apologize for contacting you like this but we didn't know what else to do there's a monster on the loose and we... I had lost its location." Starlight said ashamed.

"You should not be too hard on yourself, any pony would have done similar had they seen something like that." Luna reassured Starlight.

Tempest Shadow raised an eyebrow. Luna noticed and sighed. She corrected herself, "almost any pony."

"All right then, I will take you all to a base that's near Ponyville, there are eight ponies that patrol this time of night that work there. They should have seen something." Luna

After preparations were made, Luna opened up gateway to the base and they all walked through to the base, arriving in the front desk. The batpony at the desk proudly greeting Luna.

"Luna I never expected that you'd be here are right now, I would have prepared a welcoming party. Is this surprise inspection?" asked the batpony.

"No this is an emergency I need you all present." Luna said. She continued pointing to Starlight, "This is Starlight, Trixie, Tempest Shadow and..."

"Moon Dancer."

"They had seen some sort of creature that claimed to be after Twilight and had ill intentions."

"Oh my, this is serious. Oh, where are my manners I should introduce myself and the seven here. My name Shallow Night (unicorn), I handle the front desk as you can see, that is Pen Mare who handles accounting and taxes, you know the fun stuff. The two batponies near the weapons and armor closest are Jasmine and Shores, they handle patrolling second and equipment first. The two pegasus ponies over there, Windy Travels and Day light handle filing reports and are third to patrolling. Lastly there is Mid Tier and Cloud Nine, who are our main patrol ponies. Mid Tier is a skilled unicorn in defense and Cloud Nine deals with quick offense and also a Wonderbolt. As you can see they are on break." Shallow Night said with some nervousness.

"Luna, I think that we should go ask Mid Tier and Cloud Nine first." said Starlight.

Mid Tier and Cloud Nine were over in the break room drinking coffee, when Luna, Starlight, Moon Dancer, Tempest and Trixie approached them.

To be continued…