//------------------------------// // Silver Ghost Returns? // Story: The Return of Mare Do Well // by L_Wolf //------------------------------// Chapter 33 The house was quiet as everypony inside was asleep, though Starbloom was having a hard time staying asleep. She kept getting that tingle in the back of her mind telling her something was wrong. She frowned sitting up in bed and got to her hooves moving near the window scanning the nearby houses quietly. A shimmer caught her attention from an alley and she cocked her head faintly to one side before gasping and ducked, a surge of magic throwing Sweetie off the bed just as five assassin blades came flying crashing through the window and hitting the wall. "W.. what the hay?!" Sweetie grumbled moving to her hooves upset at being suddenly woken up the way she was. Starbloom glanced over at her and pushed her hoof to the ground. Sweetie tilted her head before lowering herself to the ground just as another volley of blades came through the window hitting the wall shattering a mirror and some picture frames near where Sweetie had been. "Stay down Sweetie, I'm going to go check on Twist." She said her magic pulling the blades out of the wall as she crept low to the stairs and hurried down them hearing a thud of the blades hitting the wall by the stairs. Twist was on the ground behind the soft, a handful of blades buried into the couch itself. "Twist, are you alright?" Starbloom called over to her. "Yea.... I'm okay," Twist said looking over at Starbloom, she looked fine, and Starbloom sighed softly nodding at her. "Stay down, and behind cover." Starbloom said pulling more of the blades from the couch glancing to the window, the down stairs windows had been blown out as well. Starbloom used her magic to move a curtain around and she caught the glow of a horn just as three more blades came through the window hitting the curtain. "Got ya, you little punk." She said her magic raising one of the blades and fired it back through the window. To her surprise, the blade suddenly came back at her, the glow from the horn flaring causing the blade to turn back to Starbloom, she squealed and flattened her self to the ground feeling the blade clip her ear. She gritted hear teeth and ignored the pain using her magic to lift the coffee table. She used the table as a shield as she went for the back door hearing blade hit the table repeatedly before she dropped it and went out the back. She narrowed her eyes at the alley she kept seeing the glow coming from. She caught the glow again as another blade came at her. She waited until it was almost on her before releasing a burst of magic sending the blade flying off. Turning she charged forward towards the alley narrowing her eyes using her repulsing magic to deflect the blades coming at her. She leapt forward and pushed herself off a wall slamming into the side of the pony. Her speed surprising the figure in black, it didn't have time to react falling over from the shoulder slam. Starbloom used her magic to pull the hood off gasping. "N.. no way! Silver Spoon?" She said looking down at the figure, it looked like Silver, if she had been a unicorn, she coat color, same mane color, done in a long braid, even the same eye color. Coming face to face with her old foe shocked her enough to for the filly to buck her and knocking her back before getting up, she snorted. "I'm not Silver Spoon!" She said, her voice similar to Silver's when she was younger. "I'm her younger sister. Silver Blade, and you killed her!" She said bringing a blade around getting ready to shoot it at Starbloom. Starbloom looked up at her laying on her side in a corner of the alley. She managed to get a better look at her, she was smaller the Silver Spoon had been, she must of been no more then sixteen years old. "I didn't kill her, Nightshade did!" She said pushing herself up gripping the blade in her own magic to keep Silver Blade from firing it at her. Silver narrowed her eyes her horn glowing brighter as she fought against Starbloom's magic. "Lies! You were there, I don't care what the report said. If it wasn't for you she would be here today!" Starbloom strained against the magic Silver was using, it was more then she expected pushing more energy into her crystals. She let out a sharp cry as one of them explode causing her magic to falter. The blade came at her but the grip she had caused it to divert and slice across her side before hitting the wall. Starbloom panted hard staring at Silver, the explosion from the crystal on her headband hurt her eye and fought off the pain to keep her eye open. "Your right, I was there when she died, I also sent her to prison. If it hadn't been for me she might be alive. But I didn't kill her." She said panting softly gritting her teeth. She saw Silver Blade raise another blade ready to finish the job. Starbloom tried to grip in her magic, but the crystals left on her headband sparked and fizzled. She gritted her teeth ready before something hit Silver hard in the side sending her sliding across the ground. Starbloom looked over and saw Twist standing there panting hard. She had charge full force and slammed her shoulder into Silver Blade knocking her aside. Starbloom ran to the edge of the alley and looked. Silver Blade had already gotten up and fled the scene. "Damn it!" Starbloom yelled kicking a hoof against the ground. She sighed in frustration and looked over at Twist wincing a bit the pain in her eye starting to get to her. "Thank you Twist... if you hadn't came, she might of killed me." She said smiling faintly. Starbloom and Twist went back to the house. Starbloom sighed as she looked at it, the blades had done a lot of damage. The almost all the windows had been blown out, and the wood had been damaged from the blades hitting it. She went inside to check on Sweetie. "Sweetie, are you okay?" She asked looking around the bedroom. Sweetie getting up from next to the bed. Starbloom gasped seeing her. "Sweetie your hurt!" She said running over to her. "It's fine... I just from the glass." Sweetie said, she had a bunch of small cuts all over her from the glass shattering, her white fur causing the bleeding to look worse. "We can't stay here though, this place is a mess and there is glass everywhere...." Starbloom sighed in relief nodding at her, looking her over again. "Yea, were can we go though? Not sure if Twilight or Rarity have enough room for us." She said softly nuzzling her shoulder. Sweetie took a deep breath and sighed before biting her bottom lip. "My parents' place... me and my sister still own it... just neither of us felt right using it." She said looking at Starbloom. "If.. your alright doing that Sweetie, we can go there." Starbloom said and Sweetie nodded both heading down stairs to get Twist. "Come on Twist, we're going to stay someplace else tonight." "Okay Starbloom." Twist said nodding at them all three heading out and started to the house Sweetie's parents lived in before they died. Sweetie had a key and let them inside, turning on the lights. "Twist you can stay in my old room upstairs." She said smiling at her faintly before looking at Starbloom, "We can use my parents room." She said softly looking at Starbloom, before taking Twist upstairs to show her to the room she could use. Starbloom let out a deep sigh after Twist and Sweetie went up stairs. She took a seat on a chair flinching she looked at the cut on her side. It had been a glancing blow but it still cut pretty good. She pulled her head band off and looked at the crystals, the smaller left auxiliary crystal had shattered, damaging the main crystal. She heard Sweetie come down stairs and looked over at her. "You alright Starbloom?" Sweetie asked going over to her and saw the headband. "Oh my..... last time you blew a crystal out like that... was in a practice dual against Twilight." Starbloom nodded softly setting the headband down. "I know.. this little unicorn has a lot of magical power. Worse.. she's fueled by rage making her magic strength unpredictable." She sighed softly closing her eyes before opening the unhurt one. "It's.. Silver Spoon's little sister." Sweetie's eyes went wide then looked confused. "She... had a sister? I don't remember seeing her around..." She said softly sighing. "What are you going to do?" "I don't know Sweetie, I'm going to have to report the attack. But I don't know if she can be stopped her with... out hurting her or killing her." She said softly biting her bottom lip. Sweetie sighed getting a first aid kit and started to bandage Starbloom's injuries. "You'll do... what you have to. She almost killed all of us tonight." Sweetie said, looking at Starbloom. Starbloom looked back at her and nodded nuzzling her cheek. Once bandaged up both Sweetie and Starbloom headed up stairs to try and get more sleep. But Starbloom found it hard to sleep, everything about the attack was bothering her. She sighed and just laid in bed with her eyes closed trying to calm her mind.