> Sixshot In Tartarus > by MoochPrime > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prologue > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd Person It is a beautiful night in the magical land of Equestria the crickets are chirping, the ponies are sleeping soundly in their homes and beds and the stars, oh the stars are twinkling like light on a Hearts Warming tree. Though if you would look closely at them you would see a few moving as if on their on accord, but they aren't. We make our way to the capital of Equestria, Canterlot and to its castle. In one of its towers is a soft light blue glow coming from its balcony, sitting on the balcony is Princess Luna mistress of the night, stars, and moon. In front of her there is a writers desk with star charts on one part of the desk, quills, ink and a small clock on another part, and fresh parchment rounding it out. Within the Princesses telekinetic grip is one of the star charts. The Princess is staring intently at this chart then averts her teal eyes to the night sky above, then back to the chart, and back to the sky with a thoughtful look on her face. She repeats this process a couple more times before a look of realization comes to her face and the princess looks up to the sky, specifically at a small group of stars. Luna narrows her eyes a bit and her horn starts to brighten a bit more casting a spell. Back up in the sky the same small group of stars starts to shake a bit, then each star starts to move in different directions. After a few moment they stop and so does the brighter light from the princess's horn, Luna gives a firm nod to that group of stars and picks up a quill, dips it in the ink and checks that section of stars off the chart. "You know Luna you look so cute when you are concentrating on your work," Says a feminine voice' from behind the night princess. Luna give a startled "eeck" dropping what she was holding in her telekinesis and jumping a few feet in the air. When gravity was about to take hold again the Princess opens her wings and after a couple of flaps, whirls around to see who spooked her. Coming onto the balcony with a hoof over her mouth trying to stifle a laugh, is Luna's sister Princess Celestia, princess of the sun and day. After breathing a sigh Luna begins her descent back to the balcony. Once she lands puts a hoof to her chest taking in a few breaths, then gives her sister a small glare, "Sister what have we told they about sneaking up on us like that. Mine heart almost burst from mine chest." Luna says in an angry fashion. Giggling again Celestia moves closer to her sister. "Apologies Luna," She says coming along side her sister and placing a wing over her back. Celestia lowers her head a pokes Luna with a hoof in the shoulder, "but I could not help my self hahaha and you do look cute when your concentrating." Lifting her head back up and giggling some more. Luna just puffs her checks and looks away form her sister, she then glances at the clock on her desk and notes the time. "Sister what are you doing up this early there is still an hour and half till we need to set the moon and rise the sun?" Luna asks looking at her sister with a tilted head. Celestia looks down at Luna with a kind smile and says, "Oh I just thought that I would come and see how your little project is coming before we switch duties." Then turned her gaze to the stars. Sighing Luna turns her head back to her desk igniting her horn, picking up the discarded chart and quill, returning the quill to the ink well. "Slowly sister very slowly. We cough I painted the sky so it would only need fixing once a month, but thanks to somepony",- small glare sent Celestia's way- "forgetting to maintain it for over a thousand odd years it is taking longer than I originally thought." Celestia just looks at her sister in exasperation and says, "I said I was ' 'sorry' ' how many times now? You were the only pony who know the time of the month that was maintenance time and you locked up all you star charts in a vault that only you could open. What was I supposed to do guess and hope I put them in the right place?" Luna just giggle while putting the chart down and facing her sister, "I know Tia I just like seeing you squirm from time to time ha ha ha." Luna says with a hardy chuckle after. Celestia just looks at her sister with a flat look on her face, then a small smile comes to her face. She lifts a hoof up and give Luna a small shove to the side. Luna stumbles a bit, then looks back at Celestia putting on a smile of her own and gives her a little harder shove. Celestia takes a step or two back looking back at her sister with an even bigger smile and pounces on Luna. Luna gives a small sheik at this and is caught by her sister. They tumble and role around the balcony (surprisingly not hitting the desk) tickling and laughing like sisters should until they stopped in the middle with Celsetia on the floor and Luna on her under belly still laughing. Luna roles off her sister to her right both starting to come down till they came to a calm silence both looking up at the stars just enjoying the night sound before dawn. Celestia was enjoying this time with her sister that she has missed these thousand years. Just staring up at Luna's night sky without a care in the world. That is until she caught something out of the corner of her eye. Looking to her right up in the sky Celestia sees something strange, a red star in the sky. Celestia gets up from the balcony floor and magics over one of Luna's telescopes and gets a better look at it. Luna sees this and asks "Is' something the mater Tia?" Celestia steps way from the telescope and point at it with a hoof. "Is that one of you star's sister?" She asks Luna raises an eye brow and walks over to the telescope and looks through the eyepiece. What she sees in a flaming ball of something entering there planet. Luna backs away form the telescope and looks at her sister. "No Tia tis not one of ours. Mayhapes just some junk that go to close to the planet, should be a simple matter to put it in orbit then inspect it later." Luna aims her horn at the flaming ball and ingites it in her light blue magic. The Princess looks on the object with a relaxed face, but then gets a questioning look on her face that soon turns into one of determination. A moment or two later sweat forms on her brow, then she releases the spell with a big intake of air then a slow exhale. Celestia look at her sister with a worried look. "Is everything okay sister?" She asks Luna looks at Celestia then shakes her head, "No sister it seems we cough I ether have not gotten my full strength back or I used to much fixing the sky I can't seem to get a hold of the object." she says looking down on the ground. Celestia looks at her sister with a small smile and drapes a wing over her back, "Then let us do it together sister I will use my magic to grab hold, you use yours to direct my movement so we can get the objects in a safe orbit." Luna looks at her sister, then brings a hoof to her chine in thought then back up to her sister, "This should work sister let us try." Celestia removes her wing and stands at her sisters side. Both Princesses point their horns at the object and ignite them with their magic, but like Luna they failed. "Has anything like this happen before sister?" Luna asks Celestia looks at the object with a frown before responding, "No Luna nothing like this has happened before," she looks a Luna with a serious face, "Let us try again and if that doesn't work please calculate where it will land I do not wish for any of our ponies to get hurt." "Of course sister, now once again with vigor this time!" Luna says and once again they ignite their horns and try to grab the object with there magic, but again it false. Now Luna grabs a peace of parchment and a quill and starts to calculate the trajectory and landing spot of the object. With every stroke of the quill Luna's face goes from one of concentration to one of fear and fright. "Ssssister we must take to the air immediately and change the objects trajectory or else the object will plow right through Canterlot's residential district." Luna says with fear in her voice. Without a word Celestia spreads her wings and takes flight with Luna right behind her. The two Princesses rocket towards the object. Luna ketches up to her sister in mere moments, Celestia looks to her sister with her eyes then casts a spell so they could speak over the rushing winds. "What would you sagest we do Luna so it doesn't hit the city?" Luna points with a hoof at the left side of the object, "We must come along side it, if we can't grab it with our magic we will just have to blast it so it will land where no pony lives." Celestia nods and with Luna in tow moved up to the side of the flaming ball, with the ball being at least twice their size, and with out a second thought both sisters blast the ball with powerful magic. The ball moves a couple of feet away from the sisters. The sister move closer and blast it again and once more it move a few feet. The sister do this a few more times before they and the fireball rocket past Canterlot with feet to spare. "Son of a, sister it is now heading in the direction of Ponyville move to the right side and blast it so it goes into the Everfree." Shouts Luna with urgency. With a look of fear and worry of on her face, Celestia and Luna move to the right side of the fireball and, this time combining their magic, give through fireball on last blast. With a sound not unlike thunder the ball takes a sharp turn towards the forest, and both sisters flare their wings to stop their flight, and come to a hover well above the Apple family orchard and watch as the fireball go over the Everfree treeline. Not even a moment later there is a bright flash in the forest, followed by the shockwave of the impact making the trees, and homes of Ponyville shack and rattle, along with scaring quite a number of birds into the air. Once the shockwave passes over the Princesses Celestia breaths a sigh of relief and takes a look around. In the distance she can see the lights in the Apple family house coming on along with the light within Ponyville proper. With another sigh Celestia looks at her sister, "Head over to Ponyville Luna and explain the situation to the Mayor along with Twilight I shale return the Canterlot and calm the citizens, along with sending some of you guards down here. Once they arrive head into the forest and see what that thing was." "Understood sister and good luck with the nobles, they will most likely will be in a fit about being woken up early." With a giggle Luna heads in the direction of Ponyville. With a twitch of her right eye Celestia whispers to herself, "I just hooft her the easy job." With another sigh Celestia turn herself in the direction of Canterlot and begins heading home. Everfree Forest Crash site after the crash Unknown to the two royals that the fire ball will be harder to find then they think. At the crater that was left by the ball, trees are up rooted all the way up the hole, small fires lined the edge of the path of destruction all the way up to the crater all things typical of a large meteor crash. However what was different was the sounds coming from the crater center, through the smoke the sound of metal banging against stones and shifting dirt. After a moment the sounds stop and from the smoke two glowing red eyes are seen peering through the smoke, "God damn it my head what hit me?"