Celestia had arranged a private train for a party of eight. There were 3 boxcars, Celestia and I had ones all to our selves. That saying, she was the princess, and two, who would sit with a monster like me? Exactly no one. I had put on a dark robe to hide my body from everyone else along with a mask I had found while waiting for the arrangements. It was a plague mask, and it would have to do. It was colored in a brilliant red and a hazy black, marbled on there if you would call it that. While on the train, I covered the only window the car had, I didn’t want anypony looking into my car for some strange reason. As we progressed in the train, conversations in the car ahead of me were taking place, but I wasn’t the kind of person to eavesdrop. So I decided to try and sleep for the first time in a while. I finally got to sleep for once in the month I have been in Equestria. It was short, but worth it. Not a dream, but one of those dreams where its pitch black and feels like it just turned to the next day. When I woke up, I found out we were at a stop. I went to see where we were, and immediately hated it. Canterlot, the most stupidly pristine city I’ve ever known. I heard a knock at my window, to see it was Celestia.
“Would you like anything while we stop?”
“Some food.”
That is all ever thought about since I was in the train. My body practically would kill for any kind of food. About an hour passed, and started hearing people come up to the train. The deportees returned with food, enough for everyone. I had gotten a apple pie, and to be honest, I was getting sick of apples. My body didn’t care, it needed sustenance. I had nearly eaten half of it before I was done. We started moving again, and back to the destination. It took a couple of days, but we managed to get there. There was one thing I had forgotten, they didn’t name it Cloud Citadel for a reason, only Pegasuses can walk on clouds. Apparently Celestia was thinking one step ahead. Remember the episode where twilight has a spell that will allow you to walk on clouds? Well Celestia did just that. She put her horn to each forehead, casting the spell. She came up to me, but I backed up, for I was still paranoid that she would still try to hurt me.
“Good god, why don’t you get over your fear of me? I’m not going to hurt you, i promise.”
As usual Pinkie jumps in.
“You PINKIE PIE SWEAR?”
“Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.”
While they were having a good time, I just stood and stared at them until they stopped.
“Fine, I’ll let you near me. Any funny business and ill exploit myself as one of your experiments.”
This made her change moods quick, neither she or I want people to see me. One, it will be a disgrace to see what the Princess has done. And two, I would be ridiculed by my looks and be tried to get killed. I took my mask of for a brief second for her to do the spell. When she was done, I got off the car. It was weird to stand on a cloud, it feels solid but you have that feeling that your standing on nothing and falling. I took small steps to make sure that it felt right. As I was done, the guards of Citadel were looking at me, for i was not what a normal pony shape would look like. But they didn’t interfere for I was with Celestia. I noticed that the Citadel wasn’t your normal looking cloud city. The ground was black with patches of grey as a walkway. The tower itself was an ominous grayish green, giving a current of electricity on the side of it from time to time. The door itself was wrought iron, didn’t know how they put it up here but they got it. The doors opened with hellish screech that hurt my ears. The others didn’t even phase, like there was no noise. The guards looked at me again, seeing that I was hunched over in pain. When the doors stopped screeching, there was a ringing in my ears, but I was still able to get up and proceed on. The inside was a spiral tower filled with chambers. We progressed until we got to the stairs.
“You have to go alone. We can’t go any further due to... her condition.”
“What condition?”
“Well... she has gone mad with rage. She still looks like Luna, but acts differently around other ponies.”
“So your saying you can’t go because your afraid to be harmed by her?”
“No quite the opposite, so I don’t hurt her if she does anything.”
So I went on with going up the stairs, but it was very slow. I didn’t have all my strength to even climb a flight, but now i have to climb 50? It would take a while. About an hour later, I collapsed on the 29th floor. I was too exhausted to go on. While I was trying to catch my breath, something stood over me. Not standing, but flying. It was Rainbow Dash.
“Look we don’t have all day, so me and Fluttershy will take you up, right Fluttershy?”
“Y....yes.”
“Okay now just give us your....whatever they’re called.”
As she grabbed my arm, she grabbed the one spot where I hope she didn’t grab, the holes in my arm. I screamed in pain as they were painful to the touch. She said that she didn’t mean to, so she grabbed me by the wrist. Fluttershy took the other wrist. It took them a while to get me off the ground. When they did Rainbow Dash mumbled something and Fluttershy started whimpering. We got to the end of the 50th floor where they dropped me off. They made a hasty retreat back to the bottom, where as I was about to meet Luna again.