The song spread through the streets. Tor looked up. The street was bathed in moonlight and soon the little pegasus started to levitate. What’s happening!? Tor thought frantically. The moonlight magic pulled her towards a mountain in the distance.
No! Tor thought. I don’t want to go!
Tor closed her eyes, hoping it was just a bad dream. She opened her eyes to find a shadowy mare flying below her.
“Hey you! Help!” Tor called.
The shape stept out of the shadows. It was the mare. Or at least she looked like her. But she wasn’t in armour and she didn’t have fangs and she was a soothing shade of midnight blue.
“Come to Moonrock Palace.” The alicorn mare urged.
“Moonrock Palace?” The small terrified filly asked in a trembling voice.
The mare nodded. “Finally you have come out of hiding and into the light of the moon!” The alicorn said with glee.
“What do you mean?” Tor asked, confused beyond belief.
“You shall soon find out.” The alicorn said with a look of understanding. “But for now sleep. Something tells me you haven't been getting enuf.” The alicorn touched her horn to the filly’s head and Tor fell asleep.
Tor awoke in the bottom bunk of a bunk bed.
The room was a cabin and was filled with bunk beds all with little fillies sleeping in them.
The pegasus filly got out of bed.
Where am I? She wondered remembering the magic that seemed to come from moonlight.
She looked at the top bunk to see who she slept with last night.
The filly’s mane was a mess!
It was purple and stuck up everywhere like the filly had been a restless sleeper. The unicorn filly seemed vaguely familiar. If only her mane was brushed...
“Roxie!?” Tor said in surprise.
“Are you a new foal?” A voice asked.
Tor turned around and faced a light pink filly earth pony with a mint colored mane and tail.
The filly looked a bit older than Tor. Maybe a fifth grader.
“I’m Bubblegum.” The filly said.
“I’m Tor. Do you know where I am?” Tor asked.
staring in disgust at her own tail.. “At Moonrock Palace. Also known as Lunarbeam castle.” Bubblegum picked up a brush on a bed stand and started to brush the tangles out of her tail.
“What happens around here?” Asked Tor.
“We don’t really know.” Bubblegum said, putting down the brush as if noticing that this filly had a lot of questions and Tor wouldn’t shut up untill she answered all of them.
“What do you mean by that?” Asked Tor, confused.
“In the night when children go outside the moon catches us.”
“What do you mean by that?” Asked Tor, tilting her head.
“Didn’t you mysteriously start levitating and float away?” Bubblegum said annoyed.
Tor noticed that Bubblegum’s tail puffed up like a cat’s fur when the cat was annoyed.
“Well, yes actually. Please continue.” Tor said. Eager to learn all she could about this strange place.
“The moon carries us off to the mountain. An alicorn mare waits for us there and separates the fillies from the colts and takes us to two big cabins. The boys go in one while we go in this one. She locks the doors with magic so we can’t get out and the door only opens to throw in new captives and things you can’t even call meals.” Bubblegum stopped to catch her breath.
Tor gave Bubblegum an eager gaze.
“You following?” She asked.
Tor nodded. “One question.”
“Oh boy you’re inquisitive.” Bubblegum groaned facehoofing. “What’s your question?”
“Who is the mare?”
“No one knows.” Bubblegum said rolling her eyes as if saying wouldn’t I tell her if I knew the mare’s name?
“How do you know where we are?” Tor said stretching her head forward but when she saw Bubblegum’s uneasy expression she backed up a bit.
“The mare told us.” Bubblegum’s expression slowly morphed to a more comfortable one.
“How many nights has she brought new ‘captives’?” Tor resisted streatching fowards agen.
“Do you want me to finish or not!? ”Bubblegum’s face went from pink to red and Tor swore she saw steem come out from the other filly’s ears
“Continue.” Tor said.
“Last night when we where filling in the two newest captives, Krizzy Kized and Roxie Flashy.”
“Roxie! I know her! She’s the filly on the bunk above me!” Tor said excitedly.
“Shut up!” Groaned Bubblegum.
“Sorry!” Tor said with a blush, doing her best to keep her mouth shut.
“Anyways. Last night when we where filling in the two newest captives, Krizzy Kized and Roxie Flashy.” She paused to make sure Tor wasn’t going to interrupt before continuing.
“Then the door opened and dinner was thrown in. You where thrown in to. You where in a deep sleep so we put you in the bottom half of Roxie’s bunk. She seemed frightened by your appearance like you where a zombie back from the dead. She had trouble going to sleep and stared at you like she was scared of you.” Bubblegum finished.
Then the door opened and two sacks where thrown in before the door shut tight.
“What’s this?” Asked Tor as she padded up to the sacks.
“Breakfast.” Bubblegum said in disgust. “Chicken feed Monday. This is a type of breakfast we get around here- You don’t have your cutie mark.”
“Neither do you.” Tor said in defence of herself pulling her tail around her blank flank so no one could see it.
“I just realized everyone caught doesn’t have a cutie mark.” Bubblegum said pulling her head back, blushing as if embarrassed.
“Oh. Maybe thats just a coincidence.” Said Tor feeling kind of bad that she might of hurt the other filly’s feelings.
“Maybe it’s because we don’t have a special talent yet and whoever's in charge of this operation is trying to use that fact to his or her advantage...” Bubblegum stated, putting her hoof to her chin.
“You mean they might try to enslave us and have our special talent be being there slave and have us have to be there slave the rest of our life!” Tor panicked beginning to sweat.
“Whatever's happening, it can’t be good!” Bubblegum worried, pulling her head back in surprise as if considering the idea.
“We could be in danger!” Tor waved her hooves.
“Everyone could be in danger!” Bubblegum said with wide eyes.
“We need to find out what they want with us!” Tor said, crouching down on the ground as if scared that the bedstands where going to come to life and attack them.
“We need to stop them!” Bubblegum said pounding her hooves together.
“We need to make a team!”
“We need to make a resistance!” Bubblegum kicked the air as if pretending it was the enemy.
“Let’s team up!” Tor’s eyes got a tiny spark of hope that the older filly would protect her.
The twosome's stomach growled.
“We need to have breakfast!” They said at the same time.