//------------------------------// // Chapter 37: Unfolding Events PT1 // Story: A New Point of View // by Cyber V //------------------------------// A/N Wow, just wow, all these review about that ending, I say that this a mission completed for trolling, ok now unto the story to see what happens next, and as for the results of the vote here they are: A has the score of 12, while B has the score of 14, and this is a surprise I got the score of 2 for C even though it wasn't an option, as for the rest of you that didn't vote I hope you are happy with this decision. And 'A very big fan' and for others also, this is how you pronounce Aceiro's name (ace-eh-row), now get some popcorn… well what are you waiting for? Go and get some popcorn. … … … There you go, now sit back, relax and enjoy Part 1. End A/N Arcana's POV "Whoa, whoa, wait a minute here, why am I under arrest?" I asked as I slowly backed away from the door with a slight panic, "what did I do? What are the charges?" "Ma'am you are charged with the theft of magical secrets from the private section of the Royal Canterlot Archives, now come with us at your free will or we'll do it be force," the first unicorn guard said stepping into the library. "What going on here?" I heard Twilight asked from up the stairs. "The unicorn known as Arcana; is under arrest for theft of one of the great magical secrets from the Royal Archive," the second unicorn guard answered while he entered the library and looked up to Twilight. "But Arcana hasn't been to Canterlot in months," Twilight stated. "Look all I know is that there's evidence that says that she was there and stole one of the valuable magical secrets from the Royal Canterlot Archives," he said to her, and then he turned towards me, "now, are you coming peacefully or do we have to drag you all the way to Canterlot?" "What going on here?" Star asked as he walked up next to Twilight, rubbing the sleep from his eye. "Arcana is being arrested," Twilight answered quickly to Star, this immediately cleared any sleep that he had. "Why?" "For stealing magical secrets from the Royal Canterlot Archive," Twilight clarified. "But she hasn't been to Canterlot for months," Star repeated what Twilight said earlier. "What's up with all the noises?" Aceiro asked, who decided to come up the stairs at this moment. "Arcana's being arrested," Star announced to Aceiro, filling him in on what is happening, I also saw him getting upset, "For stealing magical secrets from the Royal Archives in Canterlot." "Look, we don't have all day," the fist unicorn guard said getting a bit frustrated, "we need to take her to Canterlot to be questioned." "You are not taking her, for something she didn't do," Star said, prepping to attack the guards. "Are you threatening us, colt?" the second guard asked, his horn started to glow in a pale blue, "because that will mean that you are interfering, allowing us to use force and then taking you in." "Star, stop it right now," I ordered stopping him from doing he might regret later on. I turned towards the guards and announced, "I will go, I am sure this is all a mistake." "Finally some common sense around here," the first guard said gratefully, and then he levitated what looks like a oversize ring from the folds of his armor, "and for reassurance," the ring unclasped the shots towards me, taking me by surprise, as I clamped around my horn. I immediately felt weak jointed and tired. "What is this thing?" I asked as I tried to focus my magic to get it off, but the only results I got were sputter of magical sparks. "It is a magic nullifier," the second guard explained, "although you should be lying on the ground, barely moving, and yet you are still standing, and still displaying signs of magic alone," he added, visibly impressed. "Now is not the time to be impressed," the first guard said to the second, annoyed, "we have to take her to Canterlot now," he turns towards me, "alright we spent enough time already, follow us." I nodded and the unicorn guards then flanked me and we made our way to the, but before we left though the door, I stopped causing the first guard to give a sigh of irritation. I turn to the others, "don't worry I will be back soon." And we continued through the door, as soon as we stepped out the pegasi guards surrounded me and the two unicorns, like I am the most dangerous criminal, what is this magical secret, that I am accused of stealing, that requires all of these guards? Luckily it was still early in the morning, so there was nopony out and about at the time as I was lead away from the library to a chariot that was waiting for us. When we boarded, with the two unicorn guards sitting on each side of me, we took off into the air along with the pegasi guards, flying in formation around us. About ten minutes into the flight I started to feel my eyes close and my head bob up and down from the fatigue I am feeling. The guards noticed this, "ah finally the nullifier ring is taking effect," the first guard observed, as I fell asleep. Star's POV Twenty minutes later "Spike, take a letter," I heard Twilight ordered spike, whom had been filled as soon as Arcana had left with the Royal Guards, Spike got out a parchment and a quill and got ready to write down everything Twilight said. "Dear Princess Celestia I wish to say that this is another lesson in friendship, but this is not the case. For this morning Royal Guards had showed up at my home and announced that my friend Arcana had been accused of stealing magical secrets from the Royal Archives, she went with willing, but we need to know if this is true, so please answer as fast as you can, and also can you tell us what was stolen from the Royal Archives. From your faithful student Twilight Sparkle" Spike rolled the letter and blew flames onto it, turning it into green smoke that wisped into the air and flew out of the window. We didn't have to wait long, for a wisp of smoke came through the window and turned into a scroll. Spike picked it up, opened and started reading out loud. "Dear Twilight and friends I regret to say that it is true, for Arcana had been accused of stealing magical secrets from the Royal Archives. There had been reports of her sightings around the Royal Archives and also inside, and as for what had been stolen, the spell was written by Starswirl the Bearded himself, but the spell was too dangerous to use so he locked it up, never to be seen, until now; and the spell is the Time Disruption Spell, I wish it isn't true, but it is. Princess Celestia." Spike finished reading the letter with a look of worried, but twilight has the look of fear on her face. "Twilight, what is the Time Disruption Spell?" Aceiro asked. When Twilight heard Aceiro's voice, she focused and answered, "The Time Disruption Spell is a very dangerous spell, so dangerous that it was locked up in a vault that is close to second to the Elements of Harmony's vault, and that the princesses can only, or they were." "But what does it do?" I asked. "You know how I was all panicking, due to some unknown trouble that my future self caused?" Twilight alleged to us. "Ya," Aceiro responded, "when you couldn't find the disaster that you thought you future self went through, you went to the Canterlot Library to stop time." "How do you-," Twilight started but was interrupted when Aceiro hold up his hoof. "Brony, remember?" "Right, well that spell is just a minor compared to the Time Distortion Spell, you see the Time Distortion Spell doesn't stop time, it destroys it." "Wait, a thought just came to me," Aceiro occurred. "What is it?" Spike asked. "What if Nightmare is behind this?" Aceiro pointed out, "Because Nightmare used to be Luna didn't it? And then, what if it framed Arcana?" and then something was drawn to him, "what if it is still in Canterlot to get at Arcana?" "We need to get Canterlot right now," I said getting up, all of sudden worried for Arcana's safety. "Wait," Aceiro said getting up and running out of the room. Twilight Spike and I heard him running downstairs, after a while we heard him coming back upstairs, he then entered the room with a saddlebag on, "ok I am ready." "What's in the saddlebags?" Spike asked "Arcana's projects, I don't know why, but I felt compelled to get them," Aceiro explained, "hay who knows, they might convinced, whatever form of law here, that Arcana is innocent." "Alright then without any interruption, let's go," I stated. "Star," I turned towards Twilight, "you and Aceiro go ahead to Canterlot, while I go and gather the fellow elements," Twilight proposed. "Right," I said agreeing with her, and then I turn towards Aceiro and put a hoof on his shoulder, "let's go Aceiro." "How are we going to get to Canterlot fast enough?" "We'll warp," was my answer as I pulled down my goggles over my eyes, "close your eyes, you don't want to blind," I warned. Aceiro closed his eye was I concentrated to be in the throne room, and we disappeared in a flash. Arcana's POV … … … … I woke to the feeling of the wind blowing and the first thing I noticed is that I appeared to be looking at a stone ceiling. I got and rubbed my head to clear away the pounding headache, as I was rubbing my head, my hoof bumped into something as the base of my horn; the nullifier ring is still on me. I examined it as much as I can feel through my hooves, and found out that that there appears to be runes etched into it and giving off a tingling feeling as if there is a live current going through it, after I finish my examination on the ring, I started with the room. It was about a ten feet by ten feet room with a window off to one side, letting in sunlight, with a bar cell boor on the other, with the ceiling about three times my height and I also saw that the room was covered in a layer of dust, showing signs of its' disuse. Well at least it is much better than the Diamond Dogs cell, I thought remembering the time I was taken away by the Diamond Dogs. I got up from the cot that was my bed and I made my way to the window, and what I saw made me take my breath away, for I was staring down at Canterlot, with the Canterlot castle not that far from where I can. I must be in the castle's dungeons, but though I expected them to under the castle no above it, I thought as a made my way from the window. I sat back down on the cot and contemplate with my thoughts, can I still do magic? I questioned myself. I concentrated to make my horn shine, but all the results I got were sparks of spurting magic, nope, I can't. I went back to contemplating, but after a minute or so, I heard hoof steps coming towards my cell. Then a unicorn guard came into my view of my cell, if it was the same one from this morning, I don't know, I then decided to greet him, "Hello." This startled the guard and looked at me shocked, "what, but how, you should still be asleep with that nullifier ring on," explaining the shocked looked, "no unicorn is able to stay awake, when they have that ring on." "I guess you are new to this guard thing, and also why should I be asleep?" I asked wondered how this ring works. "Yea I am new to this guard thing and as for the ring, well…," the guard preparing to explain, "… it drains unicorn magic, and releases small doses of the sleep spell, it that thing still working?" he asked coming as far as the bars to see, "how can you tell that I am new at this anyway?" he added. "Well you are talking and showing emotions and as for the ring if it feels like that there is a live current going through it, does it mean that it is still working?" I asked to confirmed, while tapping the ring. "Yes it does, how do you know that?" "Then it means it is still working." "But how is that possible? The only things it doesn't affect is other kinds of magic, like pegasi, and earth ponies." "Well that might explain why I am up and about." "And what that might be?" the guard questioned. "You are not going to believe me, but even though I am a unicorn, I don't use magic you are familiar with." "Then why are you still here in this cell, if you have different magic then the nullifier ring can't drain?" "Well first, I want to clear my name whatever I did, so escaping won't help my cause; and second, even though I use different magic, I am still a unicorn, so thus this ring…," I said pointing to the ring on my horn, "…blocks my magic, which is also why I am still in here." "So why are you here anyway?" the guard asked. "What? You don't know why I am here," I said disbelieved at what I heard. "All I am told, that there was a unicorn up here, and that she was also in an enchanted sleep and I am to make sure is still asleep," he explained for his lack of information. "Well I am here, because I was accused for stealing something from the Royal Canterlot Archives," I said as I laid myself on the cot. "What did you steal?" "I don't know," I said truthfully, "but whatever it is, it required a lot of Royal Guards." All of a sudden there was a small flash of light and a letter appeared beside the guard, he levitated it up and opened it, after he read it he announced, "I have to go, I need to check back in to my captain Shining Armor," he got up from the ground and as he was about to leave I called out. "Wait, I didn't get your name, and also can you get something for me to eat?" I asked feeling famished, "because I was sort of arrested before I can get some breakfast." "Sure I will, and as for my name, it's Breaker," he answered before he vanished out of my sight. Wait a minute, whose Shining Armor? Aceiro's POV I had a sudden feeling of off-balance, and nearly fell to the floor. I opened my eyes and my mouth dropped at what I saw, for I was in the throne room, with Princess Celestia and Luna sitting on their respective thrones, but I saw that we weren't the only ones in the room. Star and I had interrupted some noble that was explaining about to rise prices, to pay for some kind of monster protection, but as soon as we appeared, the noble stopped talking. When Princess Celestia saw Star she spoke up, "sorry sir, but I have some business with these two, and I will get back at your idea." The noble left the throne room with a huff and the doors closed with a silent boom, and during while all of this is happening, Princess Luna hasn't made a move, heck she didn't even blink, in fact I think I didn't see you blink once when Star and I got here. Princess Celestia got up from her throne and made to us, when she neared us, I saw Star bow to her and I copied him, "I know why you two are here," Celestia said, followed by Star and I getting up from our bow. "Ya Arcana being arrested this morning, can't you do anything?" Star asked. "Unfortunately no, I can't." "Why?" I asked, "Aren't you the co-ruler of Equestria?" "Yes I am, but I have no power in the law, that resides in the Three Judges, Aceiro" Celestia explaining to me. "What are the Three Judges?" Star asking what was also on my mind as well/ "The Three Judges are three ponies from different races, the unicorn, the pegasus, and the Earth ponies, those three are the keepers of law here." "I didn't know that," I said marvelous at what I just learned, but then something occurred just to me, "wait, how do you know my name?" "First, Twilight had send me a letter about you Jace, but maybe I should call you Aceiro from now on; second, I also detected a strange magic appearing during me and my sister's eclipse, I guess I now know where it is coming from." "Speaking of sisters…" I said pointing to Luna, "… you sister hasn't moved, ever since we got here." "Really," Celestia asked looked towards her sister and saw that I was right, Celestia gave a sigh and walked up to her sister and nudged her, "Luna wake up, you can't keep on doing this." When Celestia spoke that, Star and I saw Luna started to stir and blink her eyes, she then started to yawn like she has been asleep, "what is it dear sister?" "You should learn to not go to sleep when somepony is giving a presentation," Celestia scowled her sister. "Oh come on 'Tia' you have to agree that presentation is boring as well," Luna argued. "I agree, but there is no need to go to sleep during the presentation, what will happen if you snored?" "I don't snore," Luna said with a pout face on. "Whoa, I didn't know that Luna can sleep with her eyes open," Star said amazed. Luna looked at Star with a praised look, "it helps when you are the celestial embodiment of the moon." "Look it's interesting that Princess Luna can sleep with her eyes open," I spoke out stopping wherever the conversation might go, "but we have a problem here, Arcana has been arrested." "Right sorry about that," Luna said and then she narrowed her eyes at me, "wait, are you the one that we sensed at the eclipse?" "Yes I am," I said quickly, "but right now, the problem Arcana is in?" "Even though we have no power in the hearing, we can still participate in it." "When is it?" Star asked concerned. Celestia looked out of the stain glass window, "it is at five, and judging from the sun, I say that it is almost time for it to start, why do you ask?" "Because Aceiro here thinks that it might be Nightmare that stole the spell and framed Arcana for it, and also it might be still here in Canterlot, and is currently waiting for Arcana to get here to take it revenge on her, because after all it was Arcana that deal the most damaged to it," Star explained. I saw Luna's eye became pinpricks at that thought and declared, "then you have time to waste let's go." "Go where?" I asked as Luna stepped off her throne and walked to us along with Celestia. "To the hearing of course," Luna answered as her horn started to glow, "now don't move." "What wait?" Star asked, but we all soon were enveloped in a blue light, when the light disappeared, I saw that we all weren't in the throne room, but now in an oval room with benches running around the edges of the room, with a chair in the middle of the room, why does this look familiar? But they were empty, except for one or two here and there. I also saw that three ponies, a pegasus, a unicorn and a Earth pony all dressed in official looking clothing, sitting at a pedestal. "So when does it begins?" Star asked, as if the unicorn heard him, he lifted a gavel and slammed it on its' tiny pedestal and said out loud. "Quite, the hearing will now begin." "Bring in the accused," the pegasus ordered. A set of doors opened on the far wall and with the sound of hooves hitting the floor also being accompanied with the clanking and scraping of metal as it was dragged across the floor. What I saw made me feel dishearten at the sight, and I am sure that Star is taking the worse, for there walking across the floor was Arcana in chains, being escorted with two unicorn guards, like a common criminal. The guards stopped short of the door, as Arcana continues to the chair and takes a seat in it. "Let the hearing begin," cried out the Earth pony, and with that he slammed his gavel, signifying that the hearing has begun. To be continued A/N Well here you go, I hope that you liked this chapter, I am now working on part 2 of this chapter, oh and I am also going to the Canterlot wedding later on, BUT it will be a twist you are not expecting. End A/N