//------------------------------// // Darkness // Story: Concealed darkness // by Neobreaker10 //------------------------------// Chapter 5 ========== Darkness =========== It had only been half a day since Twilight and Saber left, and now Twilights friends were very worried for she hadn’t returned and neither did Saber. “Twilight!!” they called consecutively, “maybe she left” Rarity pointed out while trying to not sound as if something grim had happened, “I don’t think so, but this is Twilight were talking about though, she could take care of herself” Rainbow tried to sound confident but also was uncertain. On continued the search in caves, in rivers, eventually leading them to the old castle in everfree. “Ugh, I can’t believe we came back here” Rarity had been complaining for a long time, “for the last gosh darned time Rarity, none of us are headin’ back ‘till we find Twilight” Applejack was on the verge of losing it due to Rarity’s constant griping, she was going to say something else but Rainbows shout interrupted her. “I found her, hurry and get over here” she sounded panicked so they all ran over to where they had fought nightmare moon and their eyes were met with a horrid sight. Twilight was on the ground unconscious, badly beaten and afflicted with several bad cuts. Not wasting any time they picked her up and ran as fast as they could to the hospital, and not a minuet too soon, it would have appeared that Twilight had almost bled out. “Pinkie, go to the library and get spike to write a letter to the princess. She needs to know about this” Rainbow shoved Pinkie out the window, everything was at stake. Celestia hurried over as soon as she got the letter. “It’s worse than I thought” she thought as she flew over ponyvilles outskirts, she was flying herself as to not have any delay. “Almost *oof*” Celestia was cut off by getting rammed in the side by a red energy bolt. She struggled to gain control of her flight pattern but crashed on the ground at Nightmare Blades feet (Nightmare form Saber). “What do you want Saber” she groaned as she got up off the ground. “SILENCE, SABER IS GONE” he roared in rage, “my name is Nightmare blade” he blasted Celestia again, “AAGH” she screamed in pain. “So you are not as immortal as you thought” Blade cackled menacingly, “your efforts are to no avail, I have been imprisoned in that cheerful blue bag of cowardice for too long” he turned and spread his dragon wings, “consider this encounter a warning” he snapped at Celestia then flew off. “Urgh, th-that overgrown” she grunted to herself trying to stay steady, “wing is t-to badly damaged. I-I’m going to have to hoof it into town” she continued to struggle while slowly limping into town. After what seemed like forever Celestia finally made it to the hospital and twilights friends were there waiting. “Princess, are yall alright?” Applejack ran over to support Celestia as she limped in. they quickly helped her to one of the rooms and she lay down on the bed, she then told them of her encounter with Saber, or Nightmare Blade as he called himself. And Twilight (who had regained consciousness and was recovering) shared her encounter with the stone pony. “As far as I’m concerned, the stone alicorn is the center of this whole mess” Twilight confidently commented, “we deal with him; we have a chance at getting Saber back”, “I do believe you are right twilight” Celestia replied, “and since your magic couldn’t affect him, there is only one magic that will be powerful enough to do it. The elements of harmony are our last chance”. “Hey, why is there a black cloud spreading in the sky?” Pinkie shouted out, “the only time clouds should be black is during a storm or if they are smoke” and indeed she was right, a large cloud of darkness was spreading over equestria, they had to hurry if they wanted to stop Saber. Time was of the essence, and it was not something they had much of.