Chapter 19: Those Who Lurk in the Shadows
Alex walked into the room he separated Andrew with and looked around It looked like some sort of library. He thought how odd it was that this castle was abandoned, but how was that the case? Alex decided to look into the books and pulled them out each. He found out that they looked to be spell books and some were about Equestria's past.
"I wonder if I this can explain why this castle is abandoned...." Alex said as he opened a book titled, "The Elements of Harmony."
Alex looked into the pages and was in awe. He looked into the three pictures and said:
"Amazing..."
The first picture had a picture of two alicorns on a cloud. One was white and the other one was a darker blue. Alex felt like they looked familiar. The second picture had the darker blue alicorn, but she had a blacker coat with a lighter blue mane and tail, and she had more armor on her. The third picture had a picture of six gemstones. One looked like a magenta star, an orange apple, a pink butterfly, a blue balloon, a purple diamond, and a red lightning bolt.
Alex then saw the text and began to read:
Once upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria, there were two regal sisters who ruled together and created harmony for all the land. To do this, the eldest used her unicorn powers to raise the sun at dawn; the younger brought out the moon to begin the night. Thus, the two sisters-maintained balance for their kingdom and their subjects, all the different types of ponies. But as time went on, the younger sister became resentful. The ponies relished and played in the day her elder sister brought forth, but shunned and slept through her beautiful night. One fateful day, the younger unicorn refused to lower the moon to make way for the dawn. The elder sister tried to reason with her, but the bitterness in the young one's heart had transformed her into a wicked mare of darkness: Nightmare Moon.
She vowed that she would shroud the land in eternal night. Reluctantly, the elder sister harnessed the most powerful magic known to ponykind: the Elements of Harmony. Using the magic of the Elements of Harmony, she defeated her younger sister, and banished her permanently in the moon. The elder sister took on responsibility for both sun and moon, and harmony has been maintained in Equestria for generations since.
"So..." Alex said as he looked around the castle, "That's what happened to this place..."
Alex started to feel bad for Princess Celestia and Luna after he connected the dots that the alicorns in the book was the two sisters, but his sympathy quickly faded as he remembered what they were going to do to him. "Ugh! Why am I feeling bad for them?! They did this to me!"
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Andrew was looking around the castle himself and was amazed by how some of the things in there were still in good condition, as if nobody had used them in so long. His luck had just become better as he found a medical bag.
"This will definitely come in handy." Andrew said as he sat down and opened the bag and pulled out a bandage and used his teeth to lift up his shirt and wrapped it around his pelvis, due to some injury he felt from the crash. "Alright, that's a lot better!" Andrew said as he got up. Andrew decided to find any food around and if so, was edible. He walked into what looked to be a kitchen and looked around and chuckled at seeing how desolated it was. "Now this is what I call, A Hell's Kitchen."
Andrew scavenged and found a few fruits and decided to head back to Alex. "At least we'll have something to eat while we're here." Andrew said.
He then came into the room Alex was in
"Hey, Alex. I found some fruit in a kitchen nearby." Andrew said, "I'd figured we should eat some of these before we rest for the night."
Alex took an apple from Andrew's bag and bit into it. "Ah, at least these apples I don't have to pay some bits for." He replied.
"I still honestly can't believe that you were able to outsmart those 11 ponies, Alex." Andrew said, "I feel like you're a lot smarter than you are if you can trick and trap them!"
Alex giggled at the thought of that. "Yeah... I suppose so..."
"I'm sure as long as you keep finding ways to trick the ponies," Andrew spoke, "We can be safe for much long!"
"WHO GOES THERE?!" A voice made the two jump as they suddenly saw a unicorn with a light blue coat and a white mane.