12 -Codename "The Eyebrows"

by General D

Eyebrows of hope 2

Six hours ago

I woke to screams in the air. I was terrified, but not of the screams. The thought of ponies in my own castle dying while I slumbered was what terrified me. I burst out the doors just in time to see Flitter die.

"Princess Luna, get back!" She screamed. Her pained expression was all I saw before she was wiped from existence.

I fired a bolt of ice at her assailant's head, freezing it completely. Death was a stranger to me, in the sense I saw it everyday, but never had it come to greet me. In that light, I gave the body little thought before I ran off. That was my first mistake I believe.

I could still hear screams, and they were all screams of anguish and vengeance. Screams of the dying so to speak, so I knew whatever battle I had woken to was far from over. Outside a window, I saw more of the strange creature I had slain minutes ago. In the back of my mind I realized most of them were simply standing in place, but I paid that no heed. That was my second mistake.

As I rounded a corner several of my guards came into view, but they were surrounded on all sides by the strange creatures. And as they stood back to back they made no effort to fight their clearly immobile attackers. They were clearly terrified. In my anger and confusion I simply stood there and stared.

"They've all stopped. But how?" One cried.

"Look, its Princess Luna. She saved us!." Another said in joy.

"Guards, to me!" I roared. Their cries of happiness turned to confusion and shock as I ran past them. I planned to personally relieve them for such cowardice, but Canterlot needed all the help It could get, so I attempted to rally them, and together we would seek out my sister. That was the accumulation of my mistakes. It was the last pony's cry of fear that made me look back.

"Princess, NO."

But they were all gone, and in their place the statues stood leering evilly at-

-me?"

The Doctor gave Luna a curious glance. Luna stared at the Tardis as though she was seeing it for the first time. The Doctor continued to fiddle with the computer like contraption he had set up outside even as the blue alicorn begun to circle his spaceship. There was a silence in the Canterlot throne room only broken by the beeping and blinking of the Doctor's computer.

"I thought you were mad when you brought as back here, Doctor. I thought you were even madder when you said your device could bring back all the ponies we've lost." At this point she had circled the Tardis twice. "But this, this takes all of Celestia's cakes."

His eyebrows rose. "Well tha's alof cakes."

"More than you can imagine." She said seriously, "How exactly did you fit such a large room into you box, Doctor?" Luna inquired.

"Oh you know, just a teeny tiny compression enlargement spell." He fibbed.

She gave a knowing nod, "It must be quite a powerful spell. Did my sister cast it for you?"

The stallion gave Luna a confused glance, so she explained further.

"It resembles the 'bigger on the inside' spell her clothing is enchanted with, a spell without which she could not hope to fit into her clothes. Only alicorns can cast a spell of that magnitude, and only every so often." And then she turned serious. "How goes it good physician?"

"See right here." He gave Luna his full attention. "I've set the scanner to scan for scan thingys, the seismograph to seismofy stuff, and the hypersonic four dimension collaborator to peruse relevant particle debris in the time vortex, translate them into code the Tardis can process, and hopefully reverse the polarity of this quantum conundrum."

Luna coughed awkwardly.

The Doctor trotted up to her.

"If all goes well you'll be helping the pudgy white one out of her clothing by dinner. The Tardis, my box over there, will fix this whole mess if we give her enough time." He cocked his head to the side. "You don't look happy. Why don't you look happy? I thought you'd be happy."

She shook her head. "Until this entire mess is resolved, I cannot allow myself that luxury."

"Good. I was afraid you'd be optimistic. Now, remember how I told you the pegasi wouldn't bother us while we worked?"

Luna nodded reluctantly. "That's what you said when we arrived. You said they would be full from feeding on an entire city, and wouldn't be able to move."

"Yes, sort of like a snake that had a really big meal. Only one problem with that."

"What pro- Doctor!"

He spun at Luna's alarmed cry, and caught a weeping pegasus half way towards them. Speak of the devil, and he will appear. "There's one pegasus who's still very very hungry." Luna snarled at it, and the pegasus's half frozen face glared back. "And very angry. I would be too if someone stole my meal. Friend of yours?" The Doctor asked.

"Tis no friend of mine good physician, but a fiend which refuses to remain smitten. We froze thou once, and thou still returned to take our sister from us. We will not be as merciful this time." Her horn glowed with an unearthly chill, and her eyes shone a similar color as she reared up. But the grey haired stallion was quick to stop her.

"Don't waste your time." He answered her disapproving glare. "You can't kill them .Trust me."

"What does thou insi- Forgive me. What do we do then?"

"Come with me. Keep your eyes locked on it." Together they backpedaled out of the throne room, and slowly closed the doors. Only the Doctor was prepared for the force that struck the doors. Luna was sent flying. Another hard push followed, and by the time the statue went for a third shove Luna had thrown her own weight against the door.

"What do we do now?!" She yelled.

"Simple. You're going to tell me a story!" He replied over the banging.

"What?"

"Well go on. It's trapped in there, and we've got a few minutes till these doors give out. And you still haven't finished your story. Plus, you aren't a bad story teller." He admitted to her disbelieving face. "If the princess job ever goes sour you can make a living off it."

Author's Note:

Er, I would like to apologize because the initial plan was 1k word chapters per day. But I find I can't really meet that quota. Maybe one every three or four days. If you notice anything that's left out or the such simply trust I'm planning on explaining it later. Finally, I'm pasting these as soon as I write them so I'll be editing them randomly. Hopefully, it's not so bad you can't enjoy the story.

P.S: I edited a line or two in chapter one so that the half frozen statue is mentioned, and not suddenly brought up in ch 2. Worth a read, maybe. Peace.