//------------------------------// // Chapter Two: A Sudden Change // Story: The Selene Knights // by EquinoxLiege //------------------------------// Twilight Sparkle day was going great. She was on her way to a picnic with Rainbow, Rarity and Pinky. She didn't have one trouble in the world! With Spike on her back the two chatted about various things as they made they're way to the park. The two arrived at the park, spotted they're friends quickly. As it would be rather hard to miss Pinky Pie jumping up and down with a sign that said "HEY TWILIGHT WE'RE OVER HERE". The picnic soon got underway and the conversation soon reached a rather strange point. "Hey girls have you ever thought about leaving Equestria?" Twilight said this as she looked down at her sandwich. "Leave Equestria darling? What for?" Rarity looked at Twilight a little worried. She knew that sometime Twilight could think up and act upon some weird ideas. "I don't know just to see whats out there, I guess." Twilight sighed. "I mean who knows whats out there? Nineteen out of twenty ponies never leave Equestria, and the ones who do are archeologists. I mean there are so many countries out there, some ponies have written books about them. I just really want to see whats out there!" Rainbow looked at her; a little interested "Going out of the county would be interesting, but why are you think about this now? You have all of this stuff going on!" Twilight chuckled "Rainbow I don't actually have much going on right now." Pinky munched on a cupcake "Then why have you been holed up in your library? You've only left it four times this week!" Twilight briefly questioned how Pinky knew that but put it away. "I've been looking at books about other countries, theirs a lot of interesting stuff about Equestria that I didn't know. They're been a lot more wars in Equestria or wars that Equestria fought in then I knew. The weird part about them is that they're not mentioned in Equestria's history books! Its all in other countries' history books! Twilight threw her hooves in the air. "I just don't get it!" "Okay Twilight seriously, what brought this on? You haven't spoken about it at all before?" Spike looked the most confused out of everypony. Twilight fidgeted with her hooves. "I don't really know, I guess it's just because I think it's fascinating." Twilight's voice picked up at the end of her sentence Pinkie giggled "Well Twilight I'm sure you'll have a lot of funny with Waltz and all of them!" She then garbed some cupcakes from thin air and offered then to her fiends. Twilight smiled "Yeah I'm sure I wil-" Twilight then paused and looked confused "Wait. Who's Waltz?" Rainbow, Rarity, and Spike looked at Pinkie in confusion. "Oh hes my really good friend! We're super duper a like!" Pinkie Bounced up from her spot. "Well any why I better go! See you girls later!" She then gave Spike a cupcake and bounced off humming. Rarity look at Twilight, Rainbow, and Spike. "It's better not to question it darlings. You both know who she can be." Twilight and Rainbow nodded while Spike munched on his cupcake. The girls and dragon said their goodbyes and all went on their merry way home. *** Later that night Twilight yawned, Spike was already asleep as he should be saying that it was around midnight. Twilight looked around the library, she closed her book and put it in it's proper place. She was a bout to walk up the bed when she heard a knock on her door. Who could It be at this hour? Twilight walk to the door, she couldn't see anything out side the window. She slowly opened the door. No one was outside her door. She took a few steps forward. How strange, I wonder if this is just a prank or somethi- A bag was thrown over Twilight's head. NOT A PRANK NOT A PRANK Twilight struggled as she was tied up, but she soon realized that these ponies were much stronger then her. Think Twilight think! Wait! No calm down, yes calm down. Now think. OK so I'm being foalnapped as far as I can tell. I need to preserve my energy, that way I have a better chance later. Wait, they just foalnapped me in front of my house! Somepony should have seen it! Except It's almost midnight. Good job Twilight, shut up Twilight. As Twilight was talking to herself her foalnappers talked to each other. "Are we sure it's her? If we get this wrong we're dead." "Of course it's her! She matches the description perfectly! Purple pony who live in the Ponyville library. No other purple pony lives in the Ponyville library." "Yeah but a purple dragon does!" "And people wonder why I say I'm genius of the group." At this point Twilight at stopped talking to herself and started listening to the ponies. "You know we probably look suspicious right now, Also we're in the middle of town. With a body bag, that obviously has a body in it." ".... I retract the statement about being smarter then you." "Thank you. You want is the plan anyway, all you told me was that we were foalnapping somepony." "We're taking her to Cyis." "Cyis?! That's all the way back home in Ravenelis! And it's the many camp for the rebels! That journey will take over six months! Are you telling me we have to take care of her for six months?! She could teleport away!" Twilight now remembered she could teleport. Oh wow I am stupid. Her new 'friends' kept talking. "That's why we put a magic inhibitor on that bag you idiot!" So that's why I can use magic. "I feel like she's mocking me from inside the bag." I am "She should be." "Jerk, anyway what does the rebel army want with her?" "They want to get to her before the Selene Knights do." "Wait the Selene Knights want her?! How good is she?" "I don't know exactly but- what was that?" "What was wha-" Twilight then heard one of her new friends go flying. *snap* What was that? It came in the direction of the one that went flying. The last foalnapper dropped Twilight's bag. Jerk He started to scream. "Please no! I'm sorry! We were just doing It for the money! I'm not a rebel! Don't hurt me!" Who has him so scared? The newcomer spoke. "I don't care, do you hear me? I-don't-care. All I care about is the fact that you just made what I came here to do harder, well now that I think about it you made it easier. So thank you" The voice is feminine so it's a mare, It doesn't sound like anyone I know though. "Um, your welcome?" "Apology accepted." "I wasn't apologizin-" Another snap. What are those? Who is she? Twilight could hear the sound of the mare's hooves as she walked toward her. "We'll talk later, but for now Sleep" A sleep spell? And who are yo- Twilight's head hit the ground as she fell asleep.