“Will she be ok?” Asked Silent Wind
“Your friend should make a full recovery over the next few days, if you ask me, she’s extremely lucky that the spell didn’t kill her.” The doctor replied.
Night Shade and Silent Wind nervously glanced at each other before the doctor continued.
“Anyways, she’s awake right now if you would like to see her.” He gestured to the door before walking off.
Night Shade rose to his hooves and entered the room, Silent Wind not far behind.
They were greeted with a smile when Astral saw them.
“Hey guys.”
“Hi Astral, how are you feeling?” Asked Night Shade.
“I’ve felt better, but I’ll live. Did you tell them?”
“About your enhanced healing? No.” Silent Wind replied.
Astral Moon was about to open her mouth to reply when the group heard a familiar voice that they hadn’t heard in a long time.
“So, you three are what all the fuss is about?”
Night Shade and Silent Wind both turned round, wide eyed.
“CELESTIA?!” They both exclaimed in unison, slowly backing away as she entered the room, followed by a solar guard who took position next to the door making sure that they weren’t disturbed.
“It’s been a while since I’ve seen you, but I still recognise you all.” She replied
“What are you doing here?” Silent Wind cautiously asked.
“I’m here because of the incident at the Ponyville library and because you three were involved, but not in the way I would’ve suspected. Care to explain why?”
“We’ve left Nightmare Moon’s side, she’s shown to us that she now clearly only cares about power.” Night Shade replied.
“And don’t forget that she’s already corrupted two of the elements.” Silent Wind quickly added.
Celestia’s eyes widened, “Two!? I already know about Rarity but who else has been corrupted?”
“Rainbow Dash.” Night Shade replied.
Celestia sighed, “This just became more complicated, we’re down 3 of the 6 elements, 2 are corrupted and there’s no telling what they’ll do to Twilight.”
“Well what’s the plan of action?” Asked Night Shade.
“We can try to get through to Rarity and Rainbow Dash, free them from the corruption, free Twilight and then use the elements on my sister, again. Or, should that fail, we can try to persuade her to focus our efforts on the common enemy, the Changelings.”
Their expressions turned to that of shock before Night Shade spoke up, “How did you know about the changeling spy?”
“You didn’t think that changeling was the only spy there when you reunited with Nightmare Moon, did you?” She grinned before turning to the guard, “You can drop the act now.”
Their eyes shifted towards the guard who removed his helmet, causing his whole body to glow a blindingly bright white. When the glow had subsided his appearance had changed completely, his coat was dark grey, his mane and tail were red with black streaks running through them and his eyes were the same draconic teal as theirs, he also had a scar that cut across his left eye and ended at his cheek. He looked at them and smiled.
“Miss me?”
Their mouths hung agape and after a few seconds of total silence, Silent Wind spoke up.
“Blood Lance, Is it really you?”
“The one and only.” He grinned.
Silent Wind shot forward and threw her hooves around him, pulling him into a loving embrace.
“Lance, I thought you were dead.” She replied, as tears formed in her eyes.
“That night I thought the same thing Wind.”He replied while returning the gesture.
“How on Equestria did you survive what happened?” Night Shade asked.
Blood Lance, with silent wind still in his embrace, looked at him, “Well...”
1000 Years ago
“There’s too many of them, we have to get out of here!” Shouted Night Shade.
“Agreed.” Replied Blood Lance, currently in a heated battle with another soldier who took advantage of the minor distraction and using his sword delivered a nasty blow across his left eye leaving a deep cut and causing Blood Lance to cry out in pain.
In response to this Astral Moon materialised and tackled the soldier to the ground before unleashing a beam of energy aimed directly for his face. The soldier screamed and tried to cover his face but to no avail, after a few seconds the screaming stopped and his body went limp.
“Thanks Astral.”
“Don’t mention it, now let’s go!”
It was at that moment that an off target spell hit one of the pillars supporting the room and it started to collapse, straight towards Silent Wind.
“Wind look out!” Blood Lance Shouted as he galloped towards her a tackled her to safety just in the nick of time.
The pillar smashed into the ground and the whole room began to shudder.
“Shadow Fang the door won’t budge give me a hoof before we’re buried alive.” Shouted Night Shade
“On it.” he replied before they both tried to open it, “The Damn thing’s still stuck.”
“Move you two.” Said Aegis, before charging at the door which resulted in it being forced it open, “Now go!”
“Come on Wind.” Said Blood Lance as he extended a hoof to help her up.
“Lance look out!”
Before Blood Lance could react one of the soldiers thrust his sword into his chest, his eyes widened as he began to feel numb. The soldier laughed as he forcefully pulled out the blade and watched as Blood Lance fell to the floor. Silent Wind grabbed her knife and with all her might, drove it into the soldier’s neck, not even bothering to pull it out and watched his body fall to the ground.
“W-wind.” Blood Lance managed to cough out.
“Lance, you’re going to be ok, we’ll get you out of he—
“No” he interrupted her.
“What?”
“Leave me.”
“No, we’re not leaving you.”
“If you don’t leave me, you’ll die.” He gestured towards his lance, “I want you to have it, something to remember me by.”
“Don’t do this Lance.” She pleaded.
“Silent Wind we have to go now!” Shouted Astral who had made her way over to them.
“No, I’m staying with him.”
“I’m sorry Wind.” She replied before knocking her out, levitating her limp form onto her back and picking up the lance.
“Goodbye Lance.”
“Goodbye Astral.”
Astral Moon made it to the door and took one last look at Blood Lance before following after the others.
About a minute later the room could take no more punishment and began to collapse. Before he was buried alive Blood Lance smiled and said one last thing.
“Goodbye Silent Wind.”
Sometime later
Darkness... that was what surrounded the unconscious form of Blood Lance. However it was from this darkness that muffled voices could be heard and what ultimately caused him to stir. Blood Lance weakly opened his eyes but was met with the same darkness. Trapped underneath the rubble and debris he could only wait, either to die or to be rescued. Luckily for him, fate had picked the latter.
Above him ponies were searching through the rubble and debris to find survivors from the battle that had taken place a few hours prior. Eventually he began to feel weak again and on the verge of slipping away the rubble that trapped him was dug out and he was found.
“Your Highness we’ve found somepony, but you might want to take a look at this.”
After hearing this Blood Lance once again fell unconscious.