Twilight and Starlight trotted through the halls of the castle, Twilight tried to find /anything familiar. To her, this pegasus, no not a pegasus, this bat.......wait......what is he?
"Excuse me, sir, but what are you?"
The......he stopped and turned his head to Twilight.
"I mean...well....you look like a pegasus, but you have those wings and fangs."
"It's okay, Princess. We are like pegasi, in a way, but we share the wings and fangs of bats. My captain told us that we don't really have a term for it, but my sister calls us zaldia bats. Do you know what zaldia means?"
"Of course, it means pony. So your sister gave every zaldia bat their name?"
"Yeah, Princess Luna thought it was about time somepony came up with one and Princess Celestia added it to the encyclopedia. One of the other guards wrote a book, a children's book, about how we became zaldia bats by a magical bat making a blanket out of the stars."
"I hope you have a copy?"
"Of course. Our library has twenty of them. And it ha-"
Starlight was pushed to the marble floor by another guard in golden armor. Twilight offered her hoof to the zaldia bat, but he pushed it away and stood up glaring at the unicorn guard. He had deep blue eyes and bright yellow mane.
His coat was cream colored under his armor and his face wore a glare similar to Starlight's.
"Lunars are not allowed here, why don't you go back to your little hole in the mountain."
"Princess Celestia herself asked me to retrieve Princess Twilight for her next step in her studies. Now excuse me, I'm escorting her to the Noctis Wing."
"Ha! Like anypony would go into that dark hall! You creatures- "
His rant was cut off by magenta magic zipping his mouth shut. Literally. His eyes widened when he finally noticed the purple alicorn herself glaring at the unicorn.
"I don't like it when somepony insults my friend, so please never do that again. Now continue your patrol."
The stallion used his tan magic to remove the zipper on his mouth.
"As you wish, Princess. But remember the Celestial Guard will not take your orders anymore."
He trotted away shooting one last glare at the zaldia bat. Twilight made a mental note to remember his face. She turned to Starlight who was showing his fangs at the guard.
"Lieutenant Iron Flame, he's not the only Celestial Guard who went after us. Our captain, Fang Fury, ran into a few privates and they were trying to blow up the door to the Noctis Wing."
"What happened?"
"One flash of her fangs and flare of her wings, the group ran off. One tried to charge her, but the captain was escorting Princess Luna who came around the corner. If you saw an angry Princess, would you stick around?"
Twilight shook her head. She saw what happened when Celestia got angry, let's just say that the kitchen had to take five months to rebuild itself. And that included having unicorns.
They continued down the castle halls to the Noctis Wing where Twilight's new room awaited her. After twenty minutes of walking, Starlight stopped before five silver stars on the floor, Twilight however continued until she stood on the closest star and stared at the wall.
Starlight waved a hoof in front of her face and stared at the wall. Of course he knew why she was staring.
"Twilight?"
The alicorn looked over at him. He smiled to her.
"Do you see it?"
"Yeah."
"It's beautiful."
"Yeah."
The door to the Noctis Wing was made entirely out of silver and onyx. It had a sleeping dragon bordering a scene of ponies dancing under the moonlight. An alicorn was above them, raising the moon. Twilight could not remove here eyes from the sight.
She could hear the music playing softly. The ponies seemed to move around. The dragon's snore was loud and smoke rose from his snout. The alicorn was singing. She could hear the beautiful voice of the alicorn. Starlight moved in front of her breaking contact.
"The door is enchanted. Anypony who steps on the stars activate the spell, it hypnotizes them. Zaldia's are not affected by it. Unless Princess Luna expanded the strength of the spell."
Twilight nodded, the door's affect wore off. She stood up, apparently she was sitting, and moved off the star. Then she examined the words written on the door below the scene.
"That is dragon language, we read the writing in modern equestrian to open the door."
Starlight stood directly in front of the door, his hoof was on a small carved hoof in the center. His eyes closed and her began to speak, though to Twilight, he was singing.
"Under the moonlight, we dance and play, joining our dear mother. Under the stars, we jump up and sing to our sweet mother."
The door cracked and split down the middle. It pushed itself open and revealed a hallway lit with blue crystals. It wasn't marble like the rest of the castle, instead it was silver, blue, and grey. Twilight's jaw hit the floor, figuratively of course only Pinkie could drop her jaw that low.
"Welcome to the Noctis Wing, where it is always night."
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Twilight woke to loud knocking on her door. After she was escorted to her room, she fell onto the silk covered bed and slept. Groaning she got up and opened the door with her magic. Outside her door was a zaldia bat with a pitch black coat, yellow cat-like eyes and deep grey mane.
"Good morning, Princess. I welcome you to our home, now it is your home too. Princess Luna, Princess Celestia and Princess Cadence are awaiting you in the dining hall. I must go now, I do not trust my princess with one of the privates."
With that the dark mare trotted away. 'That must of been Fang,' Twilight thought. She shut the door picked up her brush and began to dress for the day.
Starlight stood next to Twilight's door, he forgot his helmet in the rush to her bedroom. His silver-blue mane fell over his face, pleading for some grooming. He gave up trying to pull it back and left it hanging over the top of his eyes.
The door opened to reveal Twilight in silver shoes that gleamed in the light. Her crown was silver as well, complementing her pink, eight-pointed star gem. Starlight's turquoise eyes found Twilight's light purple ones.
Twilight stared at Starlight for a long time, Starlight stared at her for longer.
"Starlight?"
He blushed and looked away from her.
"Oh sorry. Shall we?"
The pair left the wing and were almost to the dining hall. All the way they talked about each other and shared stories. When they reached the hall the was a loud bang. Immediately, Starlight took a defensive position.
"Wait here, Princess."
Slowly he opened the door and three blurs came out of the hall, jumping on the zaldia bat.
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In the dining hall Princess Celestia and Princess Luna spoke to each other while five mares and one dragon were excitedly waiting for their friend.
"And then we can go to the park and play all sorts of games!"
"Pinkie, darling, please settle down. I am excited to see Twilight too, but we can't make to much noise this is a surprise visit."
Pinkie Pie sat on the ground and stared at the white unicorn mare. Rainbow Dash, the blue pegasus, was napping on a makeshift cloud from all the steam the kitchen made. Fluttershy, the yellow pegasus, was standing next to Princess Cadence who was sampling the food a servant offered.
"This is really good, here Fluttershy, try it."
The little pegasus took a small bite and smiled.
"It's nice."
Lastly Applejack, the tomboy earth pony, was looking around the room frantically.
"Anypony seen the fillies? They disappeared on me!"
"Applejack, calm down. They are fillies after all, they will disappear from the warden."
"Rainbow Dash, I ain't a warden. I'm just trying to keep 'em from destroying the place. Come out right now, you little rascals!"
Pinkie's party cannon fired with a bang, launching three fillies at Applejack. The fillies ran from the orange mare after seeing her face and ran to the door seeing a face poke in.
"Twilight!"
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The fillies bounced on top of Starlight who was trying to get up. The unicorn filly stopped jumping when she saw his face.
"You're not Twilight."