Inheritance

by Azuras

Chapter 2

As Twilight walked into the Throne room she was greeted with the sight of her BBBFF sitting on a small Crystal Throne in front of two ponies. The pony to her right was as Crystal Pony wearing an expensive tailored suit and had a grey gleaming coat and a bluish mane. While the Pony to her left was a brown Earth Pony wearing more practical clothes for the cold and a hat which hid his mane. The two seemed to be in a heated argument.

“Your Highness, this… commoner has disgraced these halls long enough with his lies and accusations towards me!” The suit wearing pony said. “He stands before you ‘claiming’ that I’ve stolen his land when all of sector twelve through fourteen have belonged to my Family since the beginning of the Empire”

“You’re Highness” The other pony says with a slight accent, straining to pronounce his words properly “My family has lived on that there land for the last three generations, I understand that the Empire came back, but when some stuck up pony comes down and says to us to leave, that’s not right”
“It wasn’t your land in the first place!”

“You already said that, Heck, I think I said my piece three times now but we keep on going in circles here”

“Well if you would just move we wouldn’t be here!”

“And where can my family go?!”

Shining sighs and stamps his for hoof upon his throne to stop the bickering “Now gentelcolts, I believe I have a comprise which may work” He clears his throat “Mister Harvest’s is a farmer and has been all his life much like his father, his family staked a claim in the frozen north three generations ago and today own the equivalent to 10 acres. These 10 acres are within Sir Crusts 200 acres from before the Empire Vanished.”

“So, there is two options at hoof, the first option is that the crown will give a sum for the 10 acres by how we view the land, or we find Sir Crust land elsewhere to compensate the lost”

Silence fills the throne room as both ponies look at shining, Twilight cannot there expression but by how Sir Crust seems to be shaking he isn’t happy in the slightest.

“This is unacceptable! My Family owns that land and everything on it! You are but a farsh who sits upon the Throne his Wife has a claim upon! Nothing more!” Sir Crust then lifts his head into the air and marches out pass twilight without sparing her a glance, she can see that his face is filled with rage.

He stops at the doors and turns to face Shining Armour “This isn’t over your Highness” he practically spits out the last of his sentence before marching strait into the closed doors causing Twilight to chuckles as he fumes before pushing the doors open and heading out.

“I’m sorry your Highness, I never meant any offense coming to you, its just that my family has been worried epically since we are Equestrians and that others may agree with Jewelled Crust and forcibly remove us”

Mister Harvest says as twilight slowly walks towards the Throne. Shining not paying her any mind yet “No trouble at all Mister Harvest, if you or anyone else are threatened just come to the Palace and I’ll sort it out” Shining says as he steps down from the Throne holding his hoof out to Mister Harvest, who smiles at Shining and shakes his hoof.

“A pleasure meeting you your Highness” He says with a smile before letting go of Shining hoof and heading out giving Twilight a polite nod. As soon as he walks out of the room Shining gain a large goofy smile as he rushes over to Twilight giving her a hug by the likes of only a big brother can manage.

“I missed you so much Twily” He says still hugging her

“I missed you to BBBFF” She giggles returning the Hug as a somewhat quite thud and ‘ow’ is heard from one baby dragon who stands and rubs his bottom as he glares at Twilight “Oops sorry Spike” She chuckles as she breaks the hug

“Oh! Spike you’re here to! Well of course you’re here Twilight would be lost without you huh?” Shining says causing Twilight to protest as she hoof bumps Spike “You’ve gotten bigger then the last time I saw you Spike”

“Yup, Soon I won’t be a ‘Baby’ Dragon anymore, even though I’m the one who practically takes care of Twilight” He says puffing up his chest earning a glare from Twilight and a laugh from Shining

“Hey!” Twilight protests

“There’s some Hay in the Kitchens Twilight” Shining says with a straight face as Spike tries not to laugh at her miss fortune.

“Oh, ha, ha, ha. Pick on the Princess huh” She says glaring at the two of them who just laugh at her causing Twilight to grind her Teeth in frustration.

“Oh Twily, Relax I haven’t had any fun like that for over a week with running the Kingdom while Cadence is off in the Griffin Empire improving relationships and what not. Besides you know me and Spike are Just teasing you”

“Yea Twi, you’ve been so worked up about that discovery that you’ve run yourself ragged. Again” Spike says his tone becoming somewhat more serious. As Twilight chuckles nervously

“Um… Anyways, what can you tell me about it Shining?” She asks hoping to get some answers

Shining’s expression hardens as he speaks “During some excavation in one of the tunnels connecting to the old Catacombs from before Sombra’s rain, the workers came upon some kind of secret passage which lead deep into the earth. They followed it and found a massive cavern, a cavern with a city of steel built inside” He sighs deeply “From what the first teams found it appears they are not Pony made and predate Pony history. And that’s not all, from what they’ve uncovered Sombra was there as well, there’s clear evidence and recent to of work being done down there. But why not a clue”

With each word Twilights face seems to grow in excitement. An entire race that predates pony history found under the Crystal Empire and she’ll be able to explore it. It’s a dream come true, its so good she lets out a squeal of excitement bouncing on her hooves.

“When do we get to go!” She practically shouts causing Shining to chuckle at her antics

“First Twily you need to get something to eat, and get some rest. Then…” he sighs deeply “You need to meet the head researcher. Professor Tombs. Or Dusty as everyone else calls him”

Twilight pauses her train of though hearing the Name Tombs “Do you mean The Tombs? As in the most famous historian and explorer of the time?!” She shouts again causing spike to cover his ears and Shining to do the same.

“Yes.. But you’ll be in for one big surprise Twilight. He isn’t anything like the books and newspapers portray him”

Twilight didn’t hear a word he said as she happily pranced around muttering about how this day kept on getting better. Spike and Shining shared a knowing look as the older of the two began to lead the way to the Kitchens where the Trio could get some just food.

After finishing there meals and idle chit chat, Shining lead Twilight and Spike to there room and parted with a hug and a few remarks. Twilight being anxious immediately crawled into her covers causing the ‘Baby’ Dragon to roll his eyes at his antics

Author's Note:

Sorry everyone for the Long Wait, I had a massive writer block, plus a Job, and School to deal with. But here's the Second Official Chapter. I think my grammar and spelling are better then the last chapter and I think I made it flow better.

Feel free to point out any mistakes I made! Also Thanks for reading!

Comments

[Lurking Trickster]

I´ve seen several stories with this idea,but they are all mostly the same -cliche.
I wonder if this story will be different.

[Azuras]

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Lets hope