"What the hell do you mean the Prince is missing?!" Sheriff Oakflank yelled at the three royal guards who stood in front of him.
These three knuckleheads had a single job, making sure that Prince Blueblood is safe and protected. And what does he find?!
THEY FAILED!!!
First Starlight Glimmer managed to escape, And Now Prince Blueblood has disappeared!
What's next? The Princess Finds Out?!
Oh...
"Sir, We assure you that Starlight couldn't have gotten far," The Orange Pegasus tried to reassure the fuming Sheriff.
"Yes! She couldn't have made it far with all the snow outside! All we have to do is send out a search party! I'm sure that we'd find both of them before the Princess even finds out about it!" The Red Pegasus also said loudly, likely in an attempt to reassure herself more than him.
But Sheriff Oakflank ignored both of them and instead focused on the pony behind them, A pony that only the green guard managed to see walk in, and smartly kept his mouth shut.
"Until the Princess finds out about what?" The pony that stood behind the guards asked, and likely not hearing that the pony who asked the question wasn't the sheriff, the Red Guard answered.
"Until she finds out that both Starlight Glimmer and Prince Blueblood are missing of course!" Oakflank and the two male guards looked at the only female Pegasus in the room as if she was the stupidest pony they'd ever met.
And seeing the looks aimed at the inexperienced Royal Guard, Princess Luna couldn't help but agree.
"We have returned from an arduous day of flying all over the country," Now it seems that the Guard managed to catch on to what was happening, "And not just to Canterlot and Back, We have spent our precious time assisting these fine ponies with the return of the Cutie Marks that were removed and held by Starlight Glimmer," The mare slowly turned her head to see that her two coworkers were looking away from her.
"And what do we hear when we reach the precinct?" Cherry Pop finally turned her head enough to see the new Princess of Equestria, Princess Celestia's long lost sister, Princess Luna, Staring at her as if she was not even worth her pity, such was the sheer amount of disappointment that could be felt directed straight at her.
"That the pony you three were specifically tasked with protecting has been taken?" None of the guards could look at the Princess, and Oakflank couldn't blame them.
If he was as young as them, he might have started crying.
But he wasn't young, Oakflank has been in the police force for over forty years, He knew how to deal with angry nobles.
"Your Majesty," He bowed his head, Exactly how he did it twenty-four years ago when the grandson of a visiting diplomat was foalnapped, "Allow me to show you where the scene of the crime happened, perhaps you would be able to find something we didn't," He waited for the princess to nod before he straightened up, grabbed a winter coat, and led the Princess of the night to Bluebloods Carriage.
Looking at the scene in front of her, Luna frowned.
Broken branches littered the clearing, burnt spots in the dirt indicated where blasts of magic were struck, and the snow has clearly been shifted as if somepony rolled and ran through parts of it.
A clear sign of a struggle, which if Luna followed the order of events that seemed to form when she looked at the marks, all ended in one spot.
A circle in the ground, devoid of snow, or grass, almost as if something appeared and ate everything inside of the circle but the ground itself.
Or more realistically.
Moved it somewhere else.
"But how can that be?" Luna whispered as she studied the empty patch of dirt.
"A Teleportation spell is carefully adjusted to only take the things you want to teleport, the grass and snow should still be here," Luna took another look at the clearing, and at the small indents in the ground that were slowly disappearing as the slow wind pushed snow to cover them, but not enough for them to disappear.
"Hoof-steps... They're bigger than the ones that look to be walking backwards into the circle, so these must be Blueblood's" Luna studied the two sets of hoof-prints.
"Starlight Glimmer walked backward, keeping her horn aimed at Blueblood," Luna looked in the direction that the hoofs would be facing, seeing the burnt spots on the ground and a pile of snow below a tree clear of the stuff, "Starlight tried shooting Blueblood, which caused him to roll out of the way, leaving these spots of shifted snow and dirt, So she tried dropping this here pile of snow on top of him, but he once again moved out of the way,"
Luna studied the hoof-prints more carefully.
"Starlight's prints only started here, but Blueblood was running from over there," Luna looked to a different part of the clearing, where she could spot another two sets of Hoof-prints, where this time the smaller pair disappeared before reappearing next to the path leading to the circle.
"So she teleported to get away from him, But why didn't Blueblood use a- Of course! Blueblood is a Prince, not a Warrior!" Luna exclaimed when she finally pieced all the pieces together.
"He doesn't know any spells that he found to be useful in this situation, so he used his larger body to his advantage in close-quarters combat!" Luna once again looked over the prints where Starlight seemed to have Teleported away from him, noticing that the smaller set of prints was stepping over itself, almost as if trying to balance itself after being hit!
Eyes now wide, Luna looked at the circle of missing snow where the two sets of hoof-prints ended.
"Starlight was planning on Teleporting herself to a more secure place to continue the fight, but Blueblood caught up to her and hit her again, ruining her concentration on the Teleportation spell! That's why the snow and grass are gone! She lost control of the spell so it took everything in its radius!"
A realization hit her, "But if that's the case! That means she also lost control of where the Spell dropped them, And Starlight is a Powerful Unicorn, a Teleportation spell going haywire to a Unicorn like her... The two of them could be anywhere in the north!"
Luna quickly spread her wings and flew back to the Flamefall County police department, intent on telling the Sheriff of what she figured out.
Starlight was cold, but she was also warm.
Her whole body hurt, and she didn't know why.
She tried moving her legs, but she found herself too tired to do so.
She tried opening her eyes, but found herself too cold to try.
"What's happening?" She asked out loud, barely able to hear herself with how fry her throat felt.
"Just hang on," She heard a voice from underneath tell her, "I've almost reached shelter," She didn't recognize who that voice was, It sounded like they were carrying something heavy, but she didn't care enough to check what they were caring or who they were.
Because Starlight was cold, Oh so cold, but she was also warm.
And when her tired and cold mind returned to the gentle embrace of sleep, she dreamt of a Unicorn walking through a frozen tundra, carrying another Unicorn on his back, her body wrapped with the only coat the two of them had, leaving the Unicorn who was doing carrying without a coat.
Forcing him to face the elements of the frozen north all by his lonesome.
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I always wonder something about the cutie mark, do they set your life? What if you wish to be a teacher but your cutie mark is set for a lumberjack, is the procedure allow you have a do over? I mean you know a pony without a mark is virtually useless for anything, so I imagine there most be a compensation for removing something
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It doesn't make a pony a blank-flank, it puts the "Equal" mark as the cutie-mark instead, making the pony "Average", with no special talent, not really great at anything, but also not really terrible at anything.
It doesn't allow a pony to get a different Cutie Mark, If your cutie mark is an axe chopping a log, then that is your Cutie Mark, you can't change that part of you. Removing it won't allow you to get a Cutie Mark of chalk on a blackboard, it just puts the "Equal" sign that Starlight gave.
You can still get your old Cutie Mark back if the container holding the mark is opened, but that destroys the whole point of getting your Cutie Mark removed.
For some talents, It is better to just be "Average" than to be "The Guy whose special talent is to tie venomous snakes into bagels", the Cutie mark is dangerous and is associated with animal cruelty, it will put both you and nearby people in danger if you do it, its better, in that case, to get it removed and not accidentally find yourself walking in your sleep, looking for venomous snakes to bend like pretzels.
So to simplify the answer, It's one Cutie Mark per pony, and it can't be changed, unless its some deus ex machina harmony transformation like what happened briefly in the s4 finale.
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Or the spell Twilight did that gave Apple Bloom like a thousand marks, I imagine there is a cleaner version of a spell like that, I mean it was made once after all. You may just need the correct doctor for the job, and I bet the operation cost billions, no different than when one pay a special trainer or seek expensive medicine for something
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I don't know man, I didn't think too deeply about the magical and economic ramifications of legalizing the removal of Cutie Marks as a medical field. And for all we know, Starswirl the bearded is the only pony that ever made Cutie Mark-related spells, and that old goober has been missing for more than one thousand years, he probably didn't think of the ramifications.
And I'm also pretty sure the spell Twilight used on Apple Bloom was specifically designed to do what it did, so I wouldn't count on it.
Cutie Marks are a special talent that are wholly unique to a pony, and nobody has the exact same cutie mark as another, and once you get your cutie mark, that's it, you can't change it, Only replace it with an "Average"
But you can also make stuff up for this, It was a one-off sentence saying what crime Starlight Committed, I didn't think anybody would look deeper into it than that, I certainly didn't.
Kudos to Blueblood for carrying Starlight to safety even after all the trouble she started. Not sure how this will play out or where they even are but I hope to see more.
If I had to make a guess, Blueblood and Starlight managed to teleport to wherever the Crystal Empire had disappeared to.
That or they left Equestria and are in a different country.
I see him slowly forming his legend. Continuing in the same spirit, he, in principle, will even be worthy of becoming an alicorn.
I'm going to guess our final character is the one and only king samba. Probably wrong but Just a hunch. Can't wait
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I think that you must mean the episode where Apple Bloom got a dozen cutie marks, which was caused by imbibing a certain plant - I forget what it was called - that Zecora kept as part of her Zebrican potion-making. Not a spell from Twilight, just so you know.
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Here, I think you mean King SOMBRA, not "samba". I just imagine that big sack of vileness and hateful tyranny doing a dance like a samba.
Now, as far as a last character to be introduced in your fic, I'll opt for Sunset Shimmer... or Trixie Lulumoon.
My guess for the last character us Sunset Shimmer. Gone for years then suddenly return
Don't tell me they've got to meet bad ol' Sombrero early?!
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Absolutely meant samba in reference to This little gem of a series The idea of him doing the samba is just amazing though isn't it?
Think I spotted a typo.
Ya estoy esperando que Star Light le expliqué que hizo todo esto solo porque su amigo dejo de hablarle, ya me imagino al protagonista dándole una cachetada para que entienda lo estúpida que es XD
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maybe not. Rarity cutie mark it is gems, it make no sense with her talent in fashion and stuff
so I think cutie mark tell what you can do best, not what you Love to do it best
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Yep, Rarity's talent is actually finding gems, as shown in the Diamond Dog episode, her talent for Fashion is actually something that she herself spent years working on.
Just because some pony's Cutie Mark says that your talent is Chopping Tree's, doesn't mean you can't be a teacher.
You'll just be less good as a teacher than you would have been a lumberjack, but that doesn't mean you're a bad teacher.
Wonder if they're near Yakyakistan....
I would dis-agree. He used a stereotypical Warrior tactic to pressure a superiour magic user and not to give them time to concentrate or choose tactic.
Improvise, adapt, overcome!
This Luna’s definitely getting fond of her fellow royal.
:)
Oh; meeting the Yetis?
Blueblood need some defensive training if the Royal guards are that incompetent.