Twilight soon caught up to her friends. They all were ready to search the castle high and low for their friends. Rainbow dash was being look out in case they were to run into Sombra. She flew up and down the hall. "So which way?"
Fluttershy looked around. "I don't know, this place is so big."
"They could be anywhere." Rarity said.
AppleJack nodded. "Lets hope they aren't with that monster Sombra."
"Or that witch Sarah." Pinkie pie said as she pulled out a witches hat out of nowhere.
Twilight looked at them. "I don't think name calling will get us anywhere. Where could they be?"
Pinkie pie put her hoof to her chin and started thinking. "Lets see...In story books the ponies are always trapped in a dungeon or guarded in a tower by a giant fire breathing dragon. So do any of you see a giant fire breathing dragon?"
"I don't think there are any dragons here besides Spike and Sarah. Maybe we can just search around really quietly." Fluttershy responded.
Pinkie pie put away her her hat. "Okay Fluttershy, lets start searching."
Then the group slowly and quietly started to search the castle. Rarity kept moving curtains, checking behind them for a secret passage or to check the stitching on them. Pinkie pie pulled out a magnify glass and was using it as if she was searching for clues. Fluttershy was checking under vases as she was searching. Rainbow dash was flying as she heard the sound of hooves coming towards them. She flew as fast as she could to get back to her friends. "Everypony hide! Somepony is coming!"
Everypony nodded and hid behind whatever they could, like the curtains that Rarity was looking at or some opened up a door and found out it was a broom closet and hid there. They had the door opened a cracked and peaked out of the curtains to see who was coming. It turned out to be King Sombra. He didn't even seem to notice the ponies where there.
Rainbow dash whispered inside the broom closet. "Lets get him."
Twilight looked at her and whispered. "Shh..Rainbow, that would be a bad idea at the moment. Lets first just go with our plan to find the Cutie Mark Crusaders. "
Sombra talked to himself as he walked down the hallway, still not knowing the ponies where there. "Hmm...Maybe I should go get those fillies from their room inside the tower and have them give me a hooficure." He soon walked offed and the ponies come out of their hiding place.
"A hooficure? The only pony who Sweetie will give a hooficure to is me. " Rarity said moving her hoof through her mane.
"Did...you hear that they are in a tower." Fluttershy said.
Applejack nodded. "Lets go get them then." Applejack quickly went running wanting to get to her sister.
Pinkie pie was right by her as they followed her. "We're off to find the CMC, the best ponies we know." She sand to the turn of "We're off to see the wizard", from the movie the Wizard of OZ.
"Pinkie this is no time for singing." Rainbow dash said. They all turned down a hallway and went up some stairs.
As they were walking Twilight was wondering how Spike was doing, she hoped that he wasn't in any trouble. That would be really bad. She didn't want to see anything happen to him, maybe she should have gone with him to look for Sarah. "Maybe one of us should have gone with Spike. He could be in trouble."
Rainbow dash looked at her. "Don't worry Twilight, Spike should be fine."
Rarity nods. "Yes darling, Spike is capable of handling things himself."
"I'm not sure he still is a baby dragon after all." Fluttershy said.
Twilight nods and sighs. "I really do hope he is alright. "
They all nod and soon got to a locked door. Rainbow dash shouted. "SCOOTALOO! APPLE BLOOM! SWEETIE BELLE! ARE YOU IN THERE!!!"
Applejack covered her mouth with her hoof. "Quite down sugarcube, we don't want the whole castle to hear us."
Rainbow dash nodded and Applejack removed her hoof from her mouth. "Sorry AJ" She said in a whisper.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders heard them and started jumping up down. "We're here. "
Apple Bloom ran to the door. "Buck the door down Applejack."
Twilight looked at AJ. "That might be a bad idea. We might not want Sombra and Sarah to know that they are gone right away. I'll just use my magic to pick the lock."
Pinkie jumped up and down and smiled. "Or we can crawl through the key hole."
"I say we go with Twilight's idea if you don't mind." Fluttershy said.
Pinkie shrugs. "Suite yourself."
Twilight used her magic and opened the lock. They went inside and immediately Rarity and Applejack were giving their sisters a hug and Rainbow dash was hugging Scootaloo. They all looked happy to see each other.
Applejack smiled. "I'm so glad to see y'all. Are you alright?"
Rarity nodded. "Please tell me that nasty scaled dragon Sarah didn't do anything to you."
Rainbow dash stopped hugging Scootaloo and punched her hooves together. "And if she did I'll beat her up."
The three fillies looked at each other, shook their heads and said in unison. "Sarah is good not evil. She helped us."
Twilight raised an eyebrow not believing it. "Really? She got you trapped here."
Scootaloo shook her head once more and grabbed the green book that Sarah left here. "It was our fault. We thought we could get our cutie marks in spying. She didn't want Sombra to take us. Sombra has her heart, she has to do what he wants or else he will kill her."
Pinkie gasps. "He has her heart.."
Apple Bloom nodded. "Yes. Sarah gave us this book and we used a spell in it to get a piece of a crystal she had and a sheet of paper that had a spell so you can get free." She pointed to the book Scootaloo had.
"How can she live if he has her heart? " Fluttershy asked.
Twilight nods agreeing with Fluttershy's question. She also wanted to know how it was possible.
Sweetie Belle grabbed the pink cloak that Sarah had left there. "She says it was cause his magic runs through her veins. She also said she doesn't deserve the cloak you made Rarity."
Rarity took the cloak as tears filled her eyes. "Oh..that poor dragon. If only we knew this sooner. "
They all nodded and all but the CMC said. "SPIKE!"
"Oh he doesnt know...that Sarah is good. He still is so angry." Fluttershy says.
Pinkie nods. "Who knows what he will do."
"We must search for him y'all" Apple Jack said.
Twilight nods. "That is true girls but I don't want to risk all of us getting captured again. " She took a deep breath and looked at the ground. "I believe its best we get back to Shining Armor and Princess Cadence. We can make a plan to fix this all once and for all there. Let's get out of here."
"What about Spike? We don't want him to hurt Sarah." Sweetie said.
"Lets just hope he doesn't, now I'm going to do a spell to teleport us. Everypony together in a group. " Twilight said.
They nodded and Twilight did the spell and they were out of the castle. The CMC looked at each other and really hoped that Sarah would be alot. Who could have guessed what might have happened if she didn't help them.
Meanwhile in Sarah's room, she was writing. She had excellent memory but she wanted write everything that she seen, heard and remembered since the day Sombra used his magic to hatch her from her egg and given her life. She even write down things that didn't make sense to her like a sound she thought she heard or a dream she had that made no sense. When she thought about it, the real reason why she was writing was just in case Sombra did crush her heart and she died so that other ponies could know what she did.