//------------------------------// // The Vault // Story: A Good Share of Lives // by Sea Pony //------------------------------// Friendship Friendship is consider the most powerful thing in Equestria. And not just because of the elements of harmony. The other day I saw a group of friends that had gone on their own paths to raise a family or pursue their goals, only to come back together five years later and act as if they never left. Just look at Dream for example. He traveled through Griffonya, prove a human inocent from the crime he didn't commit, fough Blueblood in a alternate timeline where he became the ruler. But the one time he didn't have friends backing him up was the night he died. In the griffin kingdom he had the help of Sonata, Brew and Soft Paw, in the turnabout he had the help of Dave, a human I never got the chance to meet, who gave him the knowledge he need for the case and against Blueblood he was in a squad with two ponies who help him that without talking of my aunts and their teams. But against Time Skip he foolishly decide to fight him alone. Now you could argue that he was fighting a elite of the Reapers and that he could have died either way. But the fact remain that he refused to be helped by his friends and paid the price for it. In fact I made the same error with Ayagi if it wasn't for The Doctor I probably wouldn't be here right now. Okay all this talk of friendship make me feel slightly gay, yes I know I'm a lesbian but I didn't mean it in the literal sense... Shut up. Anyway yesterday my aunts got themself in Celestia's old castle for various reasons and proceed to hilariously scare each other to death. Which reminded me that I also needed to go in the castle. The few monsters that don't hibernate during winter tend to be a little more desperate for food than usual. So I wanted to wait for spring. But when Winter Wrap Up finaly came in I totally forgot about it until now. Golden Pie totally missed me so she convinced me to let her come with me. If she tell you it's because I was scared of going alone it's a lie don't believe her. Anyway we found ourselves in front of the castle my grandmothers, my uncle, my mother and my aunts went through. It's was as if going in that castle was a family tradition or something. "Are you sure you want to go in there? This place look as if it could crumble at any moments." My beautiful fillyfriend state worriedly. I simply nodded my head before begining to trot followed closely by Golden Pie. "I have the impression I will meet the Reapers again a day or another. I need the help of Snowdrop if I want to have any chances at beating them." With that the two of us disappeared inside the ruins of Celestia's old castle. - - - - - Flash Sentry woke up with a shriek as somepony crashed through his window. Before the stallion could question what the buck was happening he was grabbed by a white aura before being catapulted out of his bed and face first on the wooden floor. "Get up Brad we go in the old castle." The Unicorn knowed as Anonymous said without missing a beat. "I told you my name is Flash Sentry." The Pegasus replied annoyed. "And why should we go in the old castle?" "Winter Song and her girlfriend decided to go in the castle for a reason or another. It's the perfect opportunity to make in sort she's on our side." He cackle as he twirl an invisible moustache while thinking of his plan. "Er, remind me why we don't pursue the 'mane 6' as you call them? Why are you so fixate on Winter?" "Isn't it obvious? Winter have the powers of a sea pony if we capture her we can make her sing and make all the mares in Equestria love us. We will become the ultimate Gary Stu and nothing will stop us!" With that Anon resume his cackle and Flash smirk. He will finally have Twilight Sparkle! - - - - - "Um, Winter?" Golden ask to me tentatively. "Yeah?" I replied while looking around of us to be sure I didn't miss the entrance of this 'vault'. "Didn't we arleady passed by the hall of hooves?" She ask with a frown. "Maybe, but we searched everywhere and we still didn't found the vault." I said while still looking around us with a frown. "From what I understand the vault have the most powerful artefacts the Princesses possessed, after the elements of harmony of course. So it must be well hidden." I rub my chin with a hoof before a idea came to me. "Hey I know! My aunts said that the organ open plenty of secret passages, if the vault is hidden behind a wall it must be unlockable from there." Golden Pie looked at me in shock. "What? I can be smart... sometimes." "Of course you're smart. It's just, you tend to act first and think after most of the time..." She replied with a nervous laugh. I roll my eyes before we both ran to the stairs of the castle. Once we were in front of the organ a last question was left to us. "So what notes should we play to open this thing?" I ask to my gorgeous fillyfriend. She seem deep in through for a moment. "Who exactly do you think owned the vault?" That a strange question but if the vault would be own by a single pony I knew who. "Luna, Celestia seem to be the type to show off her stuff. What with her statue of Discord, the mark of Nightmare that been present on the moon for a thousand years and her capital being on the top of a mountain where everypony in Equestria can see it. Luna seem more... secretive." Golden nodded absently before trotting up in front of the organ. Without warning she began to play a calm yet sad sounding song that echoed in all the castle. When she finish I could hear the distinct sound of something shifting upstair. "What was that?" I ask dumbly, who knew she could play the organ? "Moonlight Sonata, I'm not surpise Luna chose this song as a code to unlock her vault." My talented fillyfriend replied. It took us around ten minutes to find the entrance we had opened. A stairway had open in front of the Princesses old thrones. The room we were in had no window whatsoever but a old cresent moon carving was glowing with a mystical blue light permiting us to see the room. The room had what you might expect from a old royal vault. Old set of armors, wings blades, brocken spears with a probably important history, etc. "Who is this?" I heard my observant fillyfriend ask. I looked where her attention was turn and saw a multitude of pictures of a ice blue filly with weird eyes. "It must be Snowdrop, she use to be Luna's best friend. She look like she's blind. Weird considering she's suppose to be the one to have created the snowflakes." In the corner of my eyes I saw a bracelet made of ruby I felt it tug at my magic as if it was a sort of magnet. "This must be the soul detector now we just need to convince Luna to give us some of Snowdrop magic and then we go to adventure!" I exclaim while taking the bracelet with me, Golden Pie smile at me and nod. "Now let's get out of here I don't want to stay in this castle longer than we need to." - - - - - We got out of the castle when the sky was arleady going orange with the vanishing sun. I'm happy to have left before night. The Pony of Shadow is probably just a myth but I don't want to be the one to discover the credibility of the legend... Not that I'm scare or anything! I just have better things to do with my busy schedule. "Ahh!" I heard Golden scream beside me before she fell on the ground without another word. My eyes widden in horror and in a instant I was at her side. "Golden Pie what the matter?! Please respond to me- Ahh!" I felt what I assumed was a bug stinging me. I felt drowsy and my vision slowy fade, before I knew it I was on the groud and my last bits of consciousness left me...