"But…this doesn't make any sense!" Twilight cried placing the scroll on table with frustration. Around the table, sat six of the royal council that nodded in agreement, two other just quietly talked to each other, and the last one whispered to Celestia, on the far end of the table.
"We are as confused as you are Princess Twilight” A man replied back to her with his wise and old voice. "We never imagined something like this could ever happen" Twilight looked at the old man with a serious expression.
"For how long has this been happening?"
"Four days now..." another man answered.
" Four days.... " she thought to herself "no wonder she's couldn't respond to my letter about him..." she stopped and suddenly the sound of Dante's voice began to fill her mind "I feel like I have some kind of purpose for being here right now...I don't know what it is yet but it's just a feeling...Plus I owe you my life for saving me..."
"Is everything okay Twilight?" Celestia called towards her making Twilight's face become more red then what they already were.
"Oh!...y...yes everything is fine it...it's nothing" she stuttered trying to hide the blush on her face.
"In any case none of this must be spoken to anyone beyond these walls” an elderly woman said looking at everyone around the table.
A younger looking man rose his hand in question "What about Princess Luna" he asked.
"You don't have to worry" Celestia began "I'll tell my sister everything that has been said in this room...Still I am rather curious why she didn't show up, it isn't like her to just skip a meeting-" Suddenly a walked into the room and knelt in apology.
"Please forgive my intrusion my lady" he begged with a bit of sweat dripping down is face from fear. "I know you said not to disturb the council meeting but..." he cleared his throat and continued. "There's a maid who says she has talk to Princess Twilight urgently..." as he looked at Celestia with a worried face his knees began to quiver as she gave him a serious look.
"What would be so important that she would make you disobey my orders" Celestias voice turned cold and fearful.
"She said something about a man named...Dante?" Celestias looked at Twilight and returned her glare back at the guard.
"We'll talk about this later right...let her in" as the guard left the room the young maid quickly rushed into the room.
"You highness..." she quickly bowed and looked back towards the two princesses "My name is Amber Lightheart...Dante told me to find you, your majesty" she looked at Twilight with an innocent tone.
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Dante quickly turned around and blocked a bolt of dark blue magic that was shot towards him from behind with his sword, but didn't notice Luna coming right behind the blast. Take an opportunity, Luna instantly punched Dante in the abdomen and sent him rolling across the large hallways. Using all his might, Dante picked himself from the ground and ran with the rest if his strength not noticing the sword started to crack.
"Dammit..." he thought to himself breathing heavily and looking back at Luna, who was quickly catching up to him, "How the hell is she able to run in heels!?... " Dante quickly took a sharp turn to the right and came across four guards who were running in his direction. Not stopping, Dante ran a bit towards the wall on his right and, as he got a good distances from it, instantly leaped in the air placing only his right foot on the wall, Dante pushed his whole body from the wall, throwing himself over the group of guards, landing right behind them, and continued trying to make his way towards some stairs in the distance.
"HE'S MINE!" Luna's shouted landing in front of them, stopping them as opened her wings, took flight and dashed towards Dante with incredible speed. The boy looked back and noticed Luna coming straight for him.
"SHE HAS WINGS TOO!" he shouted in his head as he looked at her color matching wings. Dante realized the dark blue ball of magic that the young women was casting in her left palm and released it towards him. "NOT AGAIN!" He shouted blocking the blast with his weakened sword. A loud "boom" could be heard throughout castle as Dante was thrown from the second floor to a wall on the first floor and soon feel on his hands and knees coughing up blood. Soon an army of guards began surrounding Dante, who was fighting the pain as he tried to stand on his two feet. Before the guards could even take a step towards the boy, Luna shouted behind them men, and flouted slowly down to the first floor.
"No one touch him..." she ordered landing gently and making her way passed the golden armored men, soon standing only feet away from the tired boy, struggling to keep his balance. "Are you ready to die?" Luna asked in a sarcastic tone. Dante simply looked up to her and grinned. Luna gripped the sword harder, nearly cracking the handle. "This ends here...AND NOW!" she shouted, dashing towards the boy with the sword pointed at his chest. For a few seconds, silence filled the air and the sound of blood dripping to the floor could be heard echoing around the first floor. The guards watched in shock as the tip of the blade was only a few centimeters away from the boy's chest while, Dante grabbed the sword with his right hand, paying no attention to the deep slices that opened in his flesh and blood leaking out.
"...No..." said Dante, growling through his teeth, while blood dripped from his bottom lip "...I'm not going to die..." Dante began to move the blade with his hand ignoring the pain that it caused him. Using all of her strength, Luna tried to keep the blade in place only to have the sword quickly snatched out of her hands and Dante's left hand being placed in front of her abdomen. "...NOT JUST YET!" he shouted creating a blood red ball of aura and ,with all his force, pushed his hand toward the princess sending her flying several feet away from his direction
All the guards stared in shock as their princess landed with a hard "thud" right before their very eyes. "He attacked princess Luna!" A guard shouted gaining everyone’s attention "cease him!”
"THAT’S ENOUGH!" Celestia shouted in anger, causing the ground to shake and stopping the men from reaching the boy.
Suddenly Dante quickly clenched the lower part of his neck with his bloody hand and let out a painful scream that forced him to fall hard to his knees while letting out an agonizing scream. "Dante!" Twilight cried from behind celestia and quickly made her way the guards and the Dante's side. Twilight knelt down to him and noticed a bright red light pulsating on his chest and branded onto the boy's skin letting out a violent "hiss" as it began forming in what appeared to be a red rain drop with a black flame inside and in the middle of two smaller rain drops. Once the bright light disappeared from Dante's collar bone, a lifeless expression filled his eyes and, seconds after, collapsed into Twilights' arms. "Dante!...Dante!" She repeated with tears in her eyes.
"Take him to the royal infirmary!" Celestia ordered staring at the confused guards "NOW!” In an instant two guards immediately rushed towards Dante and carefully carried him away with Twilight slowly following.
"Tia...?" Luna called to her sister, who was still watching the men and Twilight disappear in the distance. “You felt it as well...didn't you?".
"Yes..." Celestia replied not turning to face her sister. "Without a doubt...it’s the same mark..."
"What should we do?"
"We will talk about this mess later...right now all we can do is wait and hope for the best" Celestia said starring into long hallway only to fill her mind with questions that would probably never be answered in time...