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// Part one: Poisonous To The Touch 
// Story: Serpotics 
// by K_and_REDACTED 
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"An open mind leads to an empty head” Kenga Malaroy
“Thou hast not correctly prepared thine self to request court with the princess’! Leave now and nay return till thee are properly groomed.”
Someone mocked a palace guard in a dumb voice. As Twilight passed them, their conversation died and they stared at her as she walked, her distracted face had been coated with a thick layer of makeup. She had her most elegant gown on, she wore the best she had. She was absolutely striking, or at least that was what Rarity had said. Perhaps one day she would figure that diamond bearing *Unioid out.
She was unaware that she was being stared at, due to the fact that she looked as if she was not with them. Her eyes seemed lifeless, and her walk had an eerily perfect rhythm. She stared straight forward, her head cocked at a 450 angle, and she seldom blinked. She walked straight ahead with a purpose; a purpose that she seemed to be searching for, while, at the same time, heading straight to it (try not to think about that too much).
Spike, Twilights ‘pet’ dragon-boy, stumbled to keep up with the unworldly pace his mistress was so keen to keep for some reason. He knew better than to rouse her from this state, if he did, god knows what random chain of spells might be set off. These spells ranged from giving people stripes, to making it rain lemons (both of which had happened). They could also reach anywhere from the room she was in, to the whole house, to, in the worst cases, the neighbors houses.
“HALT!” A guard demanded, snapping Twilight from her trance
“Aspesndsi-Ascedas-Necorida!” she shouted. Her eyes regained light, her pupils contracted, her face regained color, her rhythmic pace disappeared, her posture, though only slightly, became imperfect. She was back.
Spike checked himself… still normal. The guard however, had not been so fortunate. He had become a toad, then turned purple, and vomited a rainbow.
“Oh my lord!” she yelled, then chanted something under her breath, her horn glowed softly and the guard transformed back to his original state, though he looked as if he may be sick. “A thousand apologies good sir! I am not in control of what I may say when aroused from the state of ‘open mind’.”
Above them, Dash looked down from her perch on a cloud and laughed. The **Pegsian laughed so hard, that her wings began to shake. They shook so much, that she propelled the cloud forward a few inches.
Mostly due to fear, the guards ushered her and spike into the castle, without requesting any identity, and lead them to the doors of the throne room where the princess sat. They were the only +Unisianoid’s in all of Equestria.
“I DO NOT!” Princess Luna yelled
“I never said you did!” Princess Celestia yelled back, staring down at her younger sister.
“YOU JUST DID!”
“I said you had the capacity to do it, I never said you did…” Celestia commented. “But I know that you do.” she added smugly
Twilight and Spike stood awkwardly at the head of the room, hoping one of them would notice her standing there.
“NO. I. DON’T!”
“Mm-hmm, then why have I heard sounds coming from your room?”
“Listen, sis, if I did, it would be un-princess like of me, and I am never un-princess like, and I also have a certain amount of self-respect, THAT WOULD BE DESTROYED, IF I EVER EVEN CONSIDERED TRYING TO MAS-!"
“-Ahem-” Twilight cleared her throat; there was a momentary awkward silence as the sisters collected themselves, while Twilight shifted her weight from foot to foot, and Spike pretended to look for something in his pack.
Once the princess’ had sat back down in their identical thrones, Twilight broke the silence.
“Y-you requested my presence?” asked Twilight.
“Um, yes Miss Sparkle, it seems a group of scouts have disappeared near Snake Head Mountain.” Luna informed her.
“So? Don’t troops disappear all the time?” she asked.
“That’s what I said, but-”
“-But there is something secret up there.” Celestia completed for her sister.
“Yeah, but ‘someone’ won’t tell me what.” Luna retorted stubbornly.
Celestia sighed; there was a low whistle from outside the room. The sound of wind blowing.
“Twilight, Luna, it is time that I told you the story,” her motherly voice echoed dramatically around the room “of the centuries old villain who calls himself… ‘The Master’.” 
The doors flew open and the windows smashed, as wind blasted through the room. Spike screamed. All lights seemed to cease to exist. The winds howled in their ears, blowing so hard, there was no comparison. Suddenly they were falling… or maybe they were floating… The floor might have disappeared, or they might have gotten picked up by the wind. Twilight wasn’t sure. They all screamed, like a chorus of demons, the wind added its own howl. Twilights’ feet touched ground as the wind swirled around her… then, it was still… and it was silent… and… it was dark.
-To Be Continued-

*Unioid: Unicorn-Humanoid: like a regular unicorn, but in a (general) human shape.
**Pegsian: Pegasus-Person: like a regular Pegasus, but in a (general) human shape.
+Alacanes: Alaicorn-humans (see above): a combination of Unioid and a Pegsian.