//------------------------------// // Chapter 5 // Story: A Faceless Nightmare // by Phantomslayer230 //------------------------------// Twilight and Discord finally arrived at Fillydeplphia after an hour long train ride. Luckily for Twilight, Discord had fallen asleep about twenty minutes in. After departing from the train, Twilight and Discord began their search for the police station. Unfortunately, neither of them had been to Fillydelphia before, and neither of then thought to find out where the police station was before hand. So now they had to find it the old fashioned way. After about fifteen minutes of searching to no avail, Twilight decided to ask for directions. She spotted a green Pegasus stallion with a long dark blue mane and tail. His flank was adorned with a cutie mark depicting three dark clouds. One dropping rain, another with snow, and the last with a lightning bolt. Twilight walked up to him in hopes that he could point them in the right direction. "Hello, sorry to bother you." The stallion turned his head only to instantly drop it to the ground in a hasty bow for Equestria's newest princess. "Your majesty, to what do I owe the pleasure?" "You can stand up now. This isn't a formal meeting, just poking for directions." The Pegasus slowly stood up with a surprised (yet slightly relieved) expression on his face. "Oh we'll of course I'll be happy to help. My name's nimbus by the way, just nimbus. I'm the local whether manager." "Well my dear friend..." Discord suddenly appeared out of nowhere. "Could you point us in the direction the local police station?" Nimbus looked up at discord in confusion before pointing his hoof down the road. "Just follow this road to it's end, then take a left and the police station about three blocks down on the right. If you don't mind me asking, why do you need to go to the police station?" Twilight spoke up before discord had a chance. "We need to see a pony who was recently arrested by Sharif Redwood. His name is Phantom Seeker." "Wait your going to see Phantom?" "Yes, do you know him?" Nimbus quickly tinted his gaze to the sidewalk and shook his head lightly. "Not anymore, ever since a few years ago he's been acting really weird. Going on and on about ghosts or specters or something like that. I swear he must have hit his bucking head on one of his 'hunts'. If you ask me, just don't bother with him. After what happened with the authority's, he just taken a dive off the deep end." Nimbus started to walk away before uttering one final statement. "Not be rude princess, but trust me when I say he's a lost cause." After that Nimbus turned and flew off down the street. Leaving Discord and Twilight stunned on the side of the road. "Well, he was charming wouldn't you say Twilight?" Twilight was just standing there. She looked rather agitated. "I hate pony's like that. Pony's who just turn their backs on others. Makes me sick." "You know Twi. That's actually a little scary coming from the princess of friendship." Twilight soon calmed down and the two of them walked off toured the police station. But a certain green Pegasus still had his eye on them. **************** It didn't take long for Twilight and Discord to find the Fillydelphia police station. After location their destination, they quickly walked inside hoping to get down to business. As they walked in, Twilight asked the receptionist if they could see Sharif Redwood. After a few minutes the Sharif came down to the lobby to meet them. "Ah, your highness. It's a pleasure to finally make your acquaintance. I'm Sharif Redwood, the head officer here at the station. I presume you would like to get started?" "Yes please. The sooner we can question Phantom Seeker, the sooner we can figure out what's going on." "I have to tell you princess, when we first brought this guy in, I thought he was just a little nuts or maybe he was just drunk or high. But as the days have passed, things have gotten weirder." "How so?" The Sharif stops walking for a moment before take a set of keys out of his saddlebag and takes the two emissary's down a deprecate hall. They came to large metal door that the Sharif unlocked, opened, and gestured for them to go inside. Twilight and Discord found themselves in a prison cell. It was small but not extremely small. It has a barred window in the back of the room. A small bed up against the wall and a sink, mirror, and toilet in the opposing corner. However, as Twilight examined the room she noticed why the Sharif was talking about when he said things were weird. The entire room was covered in writing. Most of it scribbles but also entire ramblings have been carve into the stone of the walls. Twilight took a step forward to examine the writing more closely, and she read scared her. "The darkness is coming and we are not prepared." "I have seen death himself." "The shadows have risen from the depths of Tartarus. And Hell rises with them." "Our fate is at hand. Our world will burn." As Twilight read these ramblings she became frightened. Twilight turns to see discord reading more writing on the other wall. This was enough to actually scare the chaos king into silence. Twilight turned to the Sharif with a new question in her mind. "If this is Phantoms cell, then where is he now?" "After all this happened." The Sharif gestured to all of the writing on the walls. "We moved him to the solitary confinement. Yet now he just yells his rambling rather then writing them." Twilight turned to Discord who have her a slight nod before he spoke up. "Sharif Redwood, we need to speak with Phantom Seeker immediately. When have to try and figure out what happened to him that caused all of this." The Sharif merely nodded his head in approval before leading the Alicorn and Draqoniques towed the interrogation rooms. As they walked we stopped next to a security guard to ask him to retrieve Phantom from solitary confinement. After the guard left, Twilight and Discord walked into one of the rooms to prepare for their visitor. Before he left, the Sharif gave them one final statement. "Now you two remember, this guy has gotten violent before. If anything happen we will be right outside ready to restrain him......best of luck to both of you, I'll be watching." With the Sharif gone Twilight took her seat In a chair that was placed at a table in the center of the room. Meanwhile discord just leaned up against the wall behind Twilight. And with that the two of them just waiting for their guest to arrive. A few minutes passed as the two of them sat in silence. As time ticked on, Twilight eventually heard voices coming from the hallway. One sounded like the security guard who went to get Phantom. His voice was stern as he explained to the prisoner what he was allowed to do, and what he wasn't allowed to do. As the two of them came closer, Twilight could hear another voice. This one was softer and Twilight could only assume it belonged to Phantom. Twilight couldn't make out most of what he was saying. As the guard pony continued his lecture he told Phantom to not start ranting about his crazy hallucinations. This was met only with Phantom raising his voice, and uttering a chilling statement. "I'M NOT CRAZY YOU IDIOT! THE DARKNESS IS COMING FOR US, AND IT SPELLS DEATH FOR US ALL!" Discord leaned up next to Twilight and said, "This should be interesting."