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// Who are You  
// Story: Story of Me 
// by Genderswapped 
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Chapter Two

I guess I should explain what happen in my first year of life. First I came across a village of sphinxes. Sphinxes you should know are rather aggressive animals even the manticores know to stay away from their villages. Also they are highly adept in the arts of wisdom and magic. Finally sphinxes age relatively quickly even by pony’s standard. Anyways I decided to keep my distance, but I did learn a lot from how they spoke. I learned how to speak the language of the sphinx and how they worked out their everyday chores. I could notice that they had the elders of their village teach the young ones, so I mainly watched the elders.
This is when they spoke of how they used this magic. To my young knowledge it all sounded like gibberish until I tried it. My first spell almost got me caught one of the guards. I tried to use and a spark flew out from one of my arms. It started to burn the forest around me and it gave away my position. A guard spotted the top of my hat and shot a small ball of magic at it. I don’t remember what happened next. All that I knew was that the suit started to react and I soon I was covered in a liquid that shielded me from the outside as well as my siblings.
“Woah that was close.” said Gold as Silver and I nodded in agreement. That’s when I  noticed that the sphinxes around me were coughing and bleeding from their mouths. They were dying rather quicker now as if the liquid was doing the job of hunting for me. One by one they began to drop dead. 
“Thirteen, Fourteen and Fifteen.” stated Silver.
“Well at least we won’t be hungry for a while.” said Gold.
“Yeah, but we better go they’re gaining on us.” I said worriedly. As we ran the liquid began to dry up.
“Maybe we eat more poisonous stuff to get stronger whatever this stuff is called. ”
“Yeah. I like that idea.” I said with a evil smile
“There’s a Manticore around here. I say aim for the tail.” said Gold with a devilish.

One Day Later... (Where the Last Chapter Took up)
Solaris and Artemis were walking through the Everfree Forest after they had gotten intel on this new thing that was able to successfully attack a manticore and live.  
“Brother, why did you take me. Art thou better off Alone,” said Artemis nervously.
“I rather have you then the royal guard anyday. You of all people should know this. Brother,” stated Solaris for about the millionth time.
“Why not send the Six boys to get it,” said Artemis.
“Well this thing is dangerous because we don’t even know what it is and those five of the six boys are mortal. What would happen if that thing felt threatened and lashed out and injured or killed one or multiple. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself,” said Solaris in a serious tone.
“I understand Brother, but wouldn’t be better to have all the princes here to examine it,” responds Artemis.
“No. They are expecting a child,” said Solaris.
“A WHAT !!? WHY DI-” Artemis said as hoof came to his mouth.
“SHHH!!. I think I see it.” Solaris said as he pointed to a small black hat shape pointing out of the ground.
“We will talk later. So how do we approach it Brother.” said Artemis. Solaris shrugged his shoulders. As Artemis smacked hoof to his face. “So you’re telling me that you came all this way without a plan !!?” Artemis whispered.
“I don’t know how to approach blind ponies especially this thing.” said Solaris in an unsure voice.
They then heard a voice speak in unfamiliar language to them. Solaris then realized that it was sphinx and began speaking its language. The same went for Artemis as well.
“Hello. You may have heard our little argument,” said an unsure Solaris to it, “We were wondering if we could talk to you.”
“No.” Gold stated.
“Sure.” Silver said.
“Why?” I asked.
As we flew up to examine this creature. It was a presence that I had never felt before. It was strong like the sphinxes yet not nearly as tall. They felt almost as puzzled as we did.
Solaris had never seen anything like it, but he felt two cold presences that he had felt before surrounding them. It was not even the length of two feet. It probably came to mid leg so far from where the knee was. There two serpent like bodies coming off of it. The one who controlled it was a dragon like creature. The eye was probably the most confusing feature. It was cyclops, no a triclops, anyway it had 1 eye but 3 pupils. They were surrounded with a yellow sclera. The iris was gold. The eye had silver trail coming out much like Queen Umbra.
“Well I’ll be damned never in my many years on Equestria have seen anything quite like you before.” said Solaris to break up the silence.
Artemis sat there quietly with a puzzled look while it floated in midair for a while for them to gawk at it. “Our turn.” as they all said in unison they took with every little magic ability they had to engulf the creatures in a silvery glow. They started to form a mental image of who they are. 
“What’s that on your butt?” asked Gold.
“Same here.” Silver and I responded to Gold’s question.
“It’s a cutie mark,” said Solaris, “Why don’t you accompany us to Canterlot and we will explain everything.” Artemis nodded in agreement to his brother’s statement.
“Can-ter-what now?” asked Gold
“I wanna go.” Silver said excitedly.
“3 problems. One we can’t see. Two we can’t fly well. Three we barely even know you.”
“You can ride on my back.,” Solaris said, “We are the most trustworthy people on this planet. We practically run it.” Artemis nodded his head again.
“We will go. Besides maybe you can help us find our parents.” we all said at once.

One Hour Later...
We were all napping on his back when we noticed that he stopped.
“Have a nice nap.” Solaris said gingerly.
“Yes.” we all responded in unison.
We then started exploring the palace. I thought I was going to be sick when I walked onto the slippery floors. We began to slither and bump into our surroundings. What happens here is going to be one hell of a ride for the three of us.