//------------------------------// // Anypony There? // Story: Where's My Book! // by TheCrazyAsian //------------------------------// Where's My Book! Chapter Two: Anypony There? By: TheCrazyAsian A.K.A. Feasttalon Please don't call this a troll fic, I meant it to be an over the top kind of Romantic Comedy. When you call it a troll fic I cry a little, on the inside. Twilight continued down the grand hallway in Canterlot Castle, looking at the various stained glass windows and statues decorating her surroundings. She reached a large pair of double doors and took a moment to compose herself, she straightened her mane, made sure her hooves were clean, and thought to herself, "You're just going to see Princess Celestia everything's fine." After a few moments the doors became covered in a purple glow and swung open as Twilight stepped forwards into the throne room. She looked towards the far end of the room where she expected her mentor to be, but in her place was an empty chair. "Hello, Princess Celestia?" Twilight shouted. She looked around the room and saw that not only was Princess Celestia gone but so were all the Royal Guards, the only living thing left in the room was Philomena, who was once again going through the sick part of the cycle. Twilight began to get worried, "Hello anypony there?" she shouted, again no response other than a few coughs from Philomena. Where is everypony? A Few Minutes Earlier "Luna are you sure this was the right thing to do? What if she ends up hating me?" Princess Celestia asked. The sun was high in the sky as she sat on the throne next to Luna who was sitting on a stool. The room was empty except for the two of them and Celestia's pet, the contingent of guards usually in the room was in the mess hall getting lunch. "Asking me again isn't going to make me give you a different answer," Luna replied, with a slight hint of annoyance in her voice, " I don't know. You just need to do what you think is right." She loved her sister but sometime Celestia was just worried too much. "You're right, but how do I tell her? Do I just say 'Sorry but your book is in another castle and I love you'? Doesn't that seem a bit, you know, sudden?" Celestia asked. Luna got up from her seat on the stool and walked in front of her sister to reply. "Maybe you should be more, I don't know, gentle. Don't just say that you love her, say that you're sorry that you tricked her but you have something important to tell her. After that tell her about why you like her so much and then tell her that you love her," Luna explained. Celestia tried to remember every detail of what Luna just said. "Okay so how's this, 'Twilight I know you came here for the book that I promised you, but there is no book. I feel really bad about tricking you but I had to get you here to tell you something really important, and I knew that telling you there was a book would be the fastest way'," Celestia asked. Luna mulled it over for a few seconds and replied, "Good, good. Now keep going." "Okay, ummmmm. 'As you know as your mentor I have had the chance to be really close to you, and to get to know you very well, and I feel a very strong attachment to you'," Celestia continued. "Yeah, the problem with that was that you're being a little too technical at the end, how about 'I feel that we are very close friends' or something like that," Luna commented. "Got that. So for the end 'So as you know I really like you, and recently I have thought about our relationship. I don't want to force you into anything, but I just wanted to let you know I lo-'. You get the picture already, I don't have to say the whole thing do I?" Celestia said. "Of course not. Anyway I think I'll be going back to my room I'm-" Luna tried to reply before being interrupted by the loud blaring sound and flashing lights of the emergency alarm. "Sister what's going on? When did you have a laser lights show and dubstep installed in the castle?" Luna asked. Celestia sighed and said, "It's not a laser lights show, the closest thing we have to that are the fireworks shows the Royal Guards do on Fridays. This is the emergency alarm, which is for some reason, is going off when there is obviously no emergency." "Do you know why it's going off?" Luna asked. Celestia responded, "How should I know? The next drill isn't for a few more weeks so I have no idea. Maybe Shining Armor sat on it while he was making out with Cadence. It's not like it'd be the first time that's happened." After a few seconds of awkward silence and pondering the double doors at the far end of the room slammed open. At the end of the hall were about fifteen ponies, formed into two rows with one leading the columns at the front. They were all wearing the special body armor designating them as members of the Praetorian Guard. They were running across the room to the princesses who just sat there unaware of what was happening. After marching across the room the group stopped in front of the throne as Luna and Celestia waited to be informed of what was happening. The pony at the front of the group saluted Celestia, took a few seconds to compose himself, and told her, "No time to explain the specifics but we think demons from Tartarus are trying to attack the castle, we're implementing emergency procedure #27." A smirk formed on Luna's face, "No emergency you said. Everything's fine you said," Luna mocked. She looked at her sister with a look of "Nice going idiot". "You can brag later, right now we have an emergency on our hooves. Come on Lulu it's time for #27," Celestia said. "Wait, what's #27, and what's going on. Am I the only pony that's completely oblivious?" Luna responded. "We don't have time for this Luna, we have to get going," Celestia told Luna. Before she could respond with another round of pointless questions Celestia had already grabbed Luna by the hoof and was dragging her along the ground with her. Every now and again Luna would let out small sounds along the lines of "oof" or "ow" or "Let go of me". When they reached the back wall of the room Celestia's horn came alive as she cast a spell on the wall, revealing a door that swung open to reveal a dark concrete passageway. "Lulu, on your hooves," Celestia taunted. "Well that would have been easier if you hadn't dragged me across the room," Luna said indignity. "I haven't seen you get this upset since you were a little foal," Celestia responded. Luna just blushed and remained silent as she got back up. After getting up she ran forwards to catch up with Celestia and began trotting next to her sister down the hallway. Behind them was the column of guards making sure that nopony followed them into the passage. The passageway led to a large steel door, it looked like something you would see in a bank vault or a military compound. The group walked into the room behind the doors, it was mostly barren, with only a small table and two chairs. "Sister, what is this place?" Luna asked. "Well Lulu this is the Emergency Situation Evacuation Bunker or E.S.E.B. I had it installed after an incident twenty years ago that involved some rogues that you don't want to know about," Celestia explained. "Okay, so how long are we going to be here?" Luna asked. "I wouldn't know that, whenever the demons stop attacking I guess," her sister replied. "Yeah I guess so. Also, why didn't you tell me about this bunker?" Luna questioned. "Well I told the captain of the night watch to tell you, so I assume he forgot.," Celestia told her. "So are we just going to stand here all day or what?" Luna asked. "Yes, we're going to stand here all day," Celestia responded. " "Well that doesn't sound very comfortable, you should have gotten a couch or something," Luna said. "Uhhh. Parthicus, could you show my sister to her room," Celestia commanded. The pony who had been at the head of the column of guards, and for all intents and purposes seemed to be in charge of the group stepped up. He was a grey stallion wearing the standard Praetorian Guards armor with small dents in various parts of it, assumed to be from combat. He saluted Princess Celestia and said, "Yes princess." Then he walked up to Luna, saluted and said, "Your room is right this way princess, I will lead you to it if you would follow me." As he started walking down the hallway leading to the barracks there was some chatter over the intercom, it was Twilight's brother, and he sounded rather happy. He said, "Don't worry it turned out to be a false alarm, there are no demons coming out of the portal. I repeat, it was a false alarm there are no demons." There was silence in the bunker; everypony took in what had just been said and they all let out a collective sigh of relief. The head guard cleared his throat and said, "Well that's good news. I'd be more than happy to escort you two back to the throne room." "Actually I will be going back to my room in the tower," Luna added. "Of course, let's see. You seven will be escorting Princess Luna back to her room. Am I understood?" he said as he pointed to one of the columns of guards. The seven let out a collective, "Sir, yes sir." The two princesses headed out of the door and down the hallway, with the contingent of guards behind them. Luna waited for her and her sister to get a large enough lead on the guards before asking, "So what was that incident that happened twenty years ago?" "Oh nothing, it was just a small incident, nothing worth talking about," Celestia replied. "So a small incident made you install a bunker and a hidden door, that makes perfect sense." "Yes. Yes it does." "You know I was being sarcastic, tell me what happened." "We're here," Celestia said, ignoring Luna's request. Her horn started to shine as she cast the spell once again and opened the secret door. Twilight stared at part of the wall as it started to glow, it wasn't the whole wall but a portion of the wall. It looked at if someone was drawing a rectangle on the wall. After a few seconds it stopped glowing and swung open, behind it was Celestia and her sister. "So that's where she was" Twilight thought to herself. But then she heard a voice it wasn't Celestia or Luna, it was a more gruff voice. It was a voice more indicative of a stallion and he was shouting something, all Twilight could make out was, "Out. Changeling. Attack. Demons." What could that mean? After pondering it for a few seconds Twilight saw something emerging from the passageway behind the door. It was a a grayish colored stallion who was, for some reason, running as fast as he could out of the area behind the hidden door. I wonder what his problem is? End Chapter Two