The Morning Plan

Celestia began her daily routine of raising the sun for the residents of Ponyville. Twilight was the first to awaken from her slumber as the sun's rays beamed through the library's window onto her face. She trotted down the stairs and greeted Celestia with a heart felt smile. Returning the gesture back to the lavender unicorn Celestia waited for the other elements to arrive. After an hour of waiting AJ and Rainbow were the first to show up. Spike around this time got up and was asked to make breakfast while everypony waited on the arrival of Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie. After half an hour passed Rarity walked in while still retaining some of her regal manner and behind her followed Fluttershy who entered in very nervously. Everypony was enjoying the pancakes that Spike made because for some reason they always tasted perfect whenever he made them. Twenty minutes later and Pinkie came in but she wasn't her bubbly self. This had Twi worried because she didn't like seeing her marefriend unhappy. Deciding to take the initiative for the first time in their relationship Twi trotted up to Pinkie and gave her a soft peck on the cheek. This seemed to perk up the party pony as she nuzzled Twi's neck showing her affection.

"Now that everypony is here I believe that it is now time to decide on what to do." Celestia said with a cheerful smile as she saw her student being so caring.

"The first thing we need to decide is who will take Cheerilee's place as teacher. Second would be looking over the situation to see who is behind it all. Then the last thing we need to do is make sure the princesses and everypony stay safe." Twilight stated showing confidence in that everything will be okay.

"The first part of the plan has been taken care of my faithful student. I have requested that Cadence take over until we can deal with this problem." Celestia replied knowing that at least one of the problems was solved.

"Excuse me for asking this question but why was Cadence chosen to take Cheerilee's place? Not that she wouldn't make a great teacher because she is a very intelligent pony and also very courteous, its just that wouldn't the other ponies get suspicious." Rarity asked confused at the choice of the teacher but wasn't afraid of having her here to help protect everypony.

"True that they might be confused but it would be nice for the little unicorns to learn some magic above the basics that they are usually taught." Celestia replied happily knowing that she was right and that it would be nice for some unicorns that knew a little more magic.

After it was decided that Cadence will teach on the foals it was time to now talk about who the perpetrator could possibly be. They all talked about the activities that went on during the night leading up to the point of the murder. Then they looked back at the note to notice anything that might be off about it. Celestia's horn glowed its golden color as she tried to see if there was any magic residue on the note. There was no magic on the note but that doesn't rule out that it could have been a unicorn. As Twi was talking with her friends about their past adventures especially their trip to the Crystal Kingdom Celestia then realized that it could have been him again. After the ordeal in the Crystal Kingdom it was never proven that Sombra could have been defeated and was gone from Equestria. Deciding this as a possibility Celestia's horn was glowing again looking for any trace of him. She noticed his dark energy on the note and then grimaced at the thought that he was also probably the reason behind on what happened to Rose and Amethyst.

"Princess, is everything okay?" Twilight asked worried at the way her mentor was shaking uncontrollably.

"I'm sorry Twilight but it is apparent that an old enemy is back and it looks like he has just come for more than just revenge against me. He may be coming for you six as well along with Cadence and my sister." Celestia replied fighting back tears that started to well up in her eyes.

"Who exactly is it that could be coming after us all?" AJ asked worried not just for everypony but even for her love Rainbow.

"An old unicorn that you defeated. You remember his as King Sombra and he is back to take revenge on those that took his empire from him." Celestia replied to AJ as she began to stand up and head for Canterlot to warn her sister and Cadence.

"What are we supposed to do then?" Twilight asked surprised that Sombra was still somehow around in Equestria.

"The only thing we can do my faithful student. We continue on with what we do and keep our eyes open before this gets out of hoof." Celestia replied walking out the door and getting on her carriage heading back for Canterlot.

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Outside the library stood a tall dark stallion on a hillside watching the events unfold in the library. He gave a dark smile as he watched all the ponies inside start putting the pieces together of who was behind this masterful plan. He sat down next to a table with a chess set on it with only a few pieces left on it. The pieces left were six pawns, one king, one queen, and a bishop. The other side had only one piece left and it was the king piece. Smiling maliciously he moved the pieces around the board putting the king piece next to a pawn that was colored orange. He laughed maniacally as he got up and left for phase two of his plan.

Author's Note

Chapter releases will be a little slow because school is starting, Although that won't be that bad because they will still be coming out every Saturday now that I have a rhythm with this starting next week. If you have liked this story so far you will probably like the next two I am working on called Do I Belong and Final Stand but they don't have chapters yet. Just letting you all know if you want something new to read. Also this story isn't meant to be very long just a good several chapters but still able to maintain a good story process with it.