Make sure you search every room in ponyville, we have to find him at all costs!
I order the guards waiting around me.
As soon as I'm left alone, I start looking for magical traces that everyone who uses magic leaves behind, I close my eyes and try to feel the right one in my mind.
Starlight isn't stupid, finding him won't be easy, but it's possible she made a mistake.
All over Ponyville there is a dense network in which it is very difficult to find the right one, thanks to the fact that I have known Starlight very well for many years and her magical trace, I know what I am looking for, but due to the amount of them everywhere, I cannot see her trace.
It resembles colored strings that freely stretch criss-cross depending on where and how far the unicorn moved with magic, each string is unique and cannot be disguised in any way, but there are many unicorns in the Village and therefore the strings overlap and create an uncontrollable chaos in which difficult to find just one single string.
When I'm already desperate and after several hours of searching, until a single guard has brought good news, I sit down and stare at the crystal floor with my head hanging down where my silver-shod hooves stand, I notice something, in the underground area I see a place where Starlight has teleported suspiciously often even though she has not used for a long time.
I have you. I smiled and called the guards, who came immediately, and led them to the underground area and solemnly left the crystal room.
I can't believe that after so many years, after so much trust that I put in you, you betrayed me, You had my complete trust but that was not enough for you, you had to go against me and against Equestria itself.
I say to a handcuffed Starlight in a small black room with a gagged mouth who doesn't say anything just stares at me while drooling from her mouth.
I didn't expect that we would get into this situation, I believed that one day you would replace me and you would rule Equestria, but it was probably too long for you.
Starlight jerks and screams angrily through the gag, but nothing can be understood, only saliva flying around her.
Don't worry, you'll calm down enough here, no matter how many years it takes, and don't worry, I've found where you're hiding your friend, just the guards will capture him and put him in the catacombs, so he'll be useful as he wished,
he wanted to help with the research, so he will help with it..............with his own body.
Starlight's eyes are red, full of tears, she sits as if in a daze, with her hooves tied so that she doesn't attack me in a fit of rage, she starts throwing herself around.
I am standing in the open door of a small room, looking at the enraged animal that sputters, roars and throws as if for life, when its strength has run out, she sit facing me.
You have no reason to be upset, I'm the one you hurt, my heart is pierced by your knife..................but it's probably my fault, I gave you too much trust and freedom , it was only a matter of time
when you will abuse it and try to overthrow me.
I come closer to the door and continue.
For everything that that person has done, what he has done to you, he will soon pay, don't worry, I will personally take care of it.
I smile right into the bound pony's face, which is slowly turning from purple to red.
Crack..... the wooden shackles binding the pony's front hooves broke, she stood up in an instant and jumped like an enraged hungry wolf before I even blinked.
Squeak....Crack....Starlight stops ten centimeters in front of my face, staring into her bloodshot eyes with the expression of a madman full of despair.
I think solitary confinement was a good choice, take care Starligh I have to go, The door closes in front of the foaming at the mouth pony.
"Princess Twilight, we found him, the guards are taking him to the lowest holding cell of the Catacombs" Reports the guard who just arrived.
"Excellent, make sure that the guard guarding his cell doesn't know him" I command and head in the direction where my favorite person will be waiting for me.
As soon as I arrive at the small brick house, i order the guard guarding the entrance to take me to the cell where the imprisoned person is, who salutes and then leads me through the strong gate and leads into the depths of the Catacombs.
The underground Catacombs are a nasty place, only for the worst criminals who need to disappear from the world and never be seen again.
It is a complex of many floors and labyrinths so that if someone managed to escape from his cell, he would not be able to easily find his way to the surface.
I follow the guard through a disgusting dirty environment that hasn't been cleaned in decades, because the cleaning here was canceled after several cleaners went missing and their bodies were only found by the smell of corpses after several weeks.
That's why the Catacombs corridors look so hideous, full of settled dust, dried dirt, vomit and especially blood, liters of blood decorate the floor, walls and sometimes even the ceiling in almost every passage we walk through.
Prisoners in these walls have never had an easy life and not here at all, because the guards do not treat them as prisoners, but like an old television, if the image is grainy and does not do what it is supposed to, it must be hit and no matter how hard and how long it takes, until the guard has a clear picture they are more than willing to use all kinds of tools to get it working properly, the only thing they have to avoid is completely breaking the TV.
Disgusted by the vile environment, with poor and often absent lighting, I feel the tiled floor shake under my silver horseshoes.
It didn't take even a minute and the guard in front of me stopped.
"Yes? Sure, I'll arrange it sir" The guard speaks into the air.
“What's going on? I ask.
"We must leave the Catacombs immediately" The guard replies.
"That's out of the question, I need to visit the prisoners first" I protest because I don't intend to return to this place.
"I'm sorry your majesty, but it's an order I can't ignore" The guard stands at attention with all due respect to me.
“So...” I'm cut off by a strong jolt that shuts down most of the lights in sight.
“What's going on! I scream.
But the guard doesn't react to that anymore, he pushes me in front of him towards the exit with pleas to hurry up.
More and more tremors are felt from the surroundings and even the sound of screaming guards is getting closer as they pass me and run in the opposite direction with heavy clubs and sharp weapons.
I stop when I hear the roar of the dying guards far down the maze, while a guard stands beside me, begging me to continue.
But I can't, if something happens, I have to help, it's my duty.
As soon as I turn around, my escort is standing in front of me trying to get me to turn around and leave.
After several pleas on his knees, explaining that the guards can handle it and he received a direct order to escort me out from the highest authority of the guards, I turned and walked where the satisfied guard was leading me.
This time the shock was so loud and close that smoke began to billow down the hall, I'm not going to run away from what's happening anymore, I turn around and ignore the pleas that are being called out.
When I run around the corner where the smoke is coming from, I see that there are holes in the walls that are stained with fresh blood.
I hesitate with a little apprehension, but only for a moment, I run to the hole and look to see if I can see anything in the long corridor that leads through many walls, but nothing can be heard anymore, only a cloud of dust rolls over the ground and a lot of blood that has no end.
With another shock, the already weak lighting stops working, the corridors plunge into deep darkness due to the absence of windows and no other source of light.
I flash my horn and immediately I hear a scream, after which I run through the dark and old faded blood-soaked walls, which with each step is more fresh, which is reflected in the pink glow of my horn.
I run to the intersection and listen to where the scream is coming from, I look at the three turns but I can't make out where the voice is coming from, so I choose the right corridor in which I can't run very fast, because my light doesn't reach far enough for me to notice the debris covering the chipped pavement in time.
More and more irradiated dust flies in the glow of my horn until I arrive at another large hole in the wall where a screaming guard lies on his last strength.
I can only see his head, which is closest to me with wide eyes in the dark, I go to him and am about to treat him at least a little, when the rest of the body on the side, covered in blood, starts to appear oozes from the dismembered body, his abdomen rises and falls quickly and sharply in the flood of blood that flows from it, from dozens of deep wounds resembling teeth and claws that have separated some parts of the flesh from the body to the bone.
I kneel down next to him and try to calm him down so that he doesn't scream, but he doesn't hear me, he doesn't notice anything, he just stares into space and calls out for help, he can't be understood because of his unnaturally twisted neck and sunken chest from which bones stick out and oozing thick red blood as he tries to move and stand up, but just thrashes around in a pool of blood with three missing legs that look like they've been bitten off, while the head lies limp on the ground and just lets its body drag back and forth.
After briefly thanking him for his bravery, I save him the trouble with a quick flash and close his eyes.
I get up and head for the new scream that comes from the breached wall near which I am our already dead guard.
I run through an endless dark tunnel, with a few meters of illuminated walls in front of me, which are almost invisible due to the thickening dust.
I stop in the sudden silence, a chill runs down my spine, when I turn to make sure that there is nothing in the corridor and that there is nothing, only grave silence, every step I take sounds several times louder because of the narrow corridors and the stone pavement that is present everywhere which reflects sound far away.
With a small presence of fear, I walk through the darkness with the ever-present echo of my hooves and less and less visibility due to the ever-thickening dust around me, losing my sight to less than a meter, which is dangerous when
the bodies of the guards and debris from the walls and floor are lying everywhere.
I jump over the corpses and try to hear at least one voice, at least one living pony must have stayed in those corridors, but it's probably not like that, I'm completely alone.
I stop and turn my head back and forth in the long corridor without a single sidestep.
Nothing, as if I was buried underground, in a coffin, the only thing that surrounds me is darkness, flying dust, corpses and everywhere present blood on the walls and floor.
In a fit of stress, I started hyperventilating.
Calm down!
You'll get out!
Whatever was there, it's gone now!
The guards know that you went down, some are already looking for me...........I realize that something is happening right now.
Yes, the guards......my lovely loyal ponies who will find me and get me out of here.
Feeling calm, I exhale and step straight ahead when there is a tremendous bang, with a flash of lightning I turn behind me to see through the thick dust a black smoke with red eyes staring down at me from the ceiling.
I take a cautious shaky step back, and with my throat tight with fear and my ears down, now hidden by the silver-blue crown, I hear the smoke hiss and watch me intently.
Don't run....Don't run! Face it and DON'T RUN!!! screaming in my head full of fear.
As soon as my hoof completes a step back and hits the ground with a loud echo my heart stops as I see the red eyes close and in a swift movement towards me, sharp claws swing through the wall that stands in their way to me and the falling rubble is about to take my life.
After my shield was shattered by the enemy I summoned between me and the claws, I jumped back and prepared to fight as I stared at the sharp bright white teeth from the blood that opened hungrily under his red eyes.
I sent a powerful beam in his direction but it just went through and the shadow rushed at me with a mad roar.
I try with all my strength to deflect the attacks of sharp claws and teeth, but my shields do not stop him, all I can do is retreat and send one beam after another into the black smoke that is getting closer and closer to me.
When it's so close that I have to tilt my head to see the red eyes, I turn and start to run away, but I don't have a chance, the moment I turn and take a few steps, the wall flies apart in front of me, from which shadow claws fly at me.
Even my strongest Shield couldn't fend them off and it went straight through my left thigh like butter, with a scream I let out a beam so strong that it fills the whole room in which the shadow disappears, I fall to the ground because of a sore leg from which blood gushes from three long wounds all over thighs.
Suppressing tears of pain, I stand up and see red eyes glowing in the distance, which soon fly at me, I am about to release another large beam, when the shadow disappears.
Aaaaahhh!! I scream as the wall right next to me explodes and its debris hits my head.
I lie and feel black smoke rising overhead, my body weakens, due to injuries and a concussion, in a spinning world, I see a flash of claws, I summon the strongest shield I am capable of, through which the claws pass but get stuck in it.
With an effort of will I stand up, I stagger a bit back from the shadow that is trying to break free from my shield, I strain all my strength for the last attack, I concentrate and try not to fall due to weak legs that tend to give way.
With a crack my shield shatters and the shadow rushes right at me with a terrible scream as I muster the strength for the last spell, bowing my head and clenched teeth with a pink glow that illuminates the broken corridor and rubble like the midday sun.
NOOOOO! I hear a scream while, as in a slow-motion movie, I am hit by a powerful spell in my right side and subsequently thrown into a hole in the wall, where I fall and due to the force of the spell that hit me, I slide until I hit the rubble on my back, where I stop.
I open my eyes as I lie down and in the corridor where I was just standing.............stands............Starlight?
I KNEW THAT YOU..are....traitor?.............after rage comes despair when I see that Starligt is standing and looking directly at me , hit as if by an out-of-control truck at full speed where now there is no one, only darkness.
...............Star.................li..........The world goes dark, I just see how my eyes are slowly closing.