The Celestial Guard

Twilight's horn glowed in frustration as she attempted the spell she had prepared. Beads of sweat poured down her forehead.

"Little sister, I think you should stop this before you hurt yourself."

"We agree, an injured Twilight is worst than a discouraged one."

"Fine...", Twilight's horn stopped glowing and she sighed in frustration. She looked down at the spell book she had thrown on the floor. She picked it up, reading it over to see what she missed.

"Twilight, I'm going to take that book away from you now."

"No! I have to do this."

"Why do you? To bring back this stallion would only cause more problems with our sister. It might actually cause the problems we seek to prevent."

"It seems wrong to just leave this stallion to die, if we bring him forward, Celestia might have another chance!"

"We don't even know if Princess Celestia feels like that! Little sister, give me that book now!", Shinning Armour reached for the book in his sister's grasp.

"NO!", with her aura, Twilight lifted the book out of her brother's reach, putting up a shield and starting the spell again.

The other three tried to stop her with their magic, but it was futile. Twilight's eyes shined with victory.

"I got him! I got him!", she felt the fabric of time open as the delved towards that day. She could feel herself getting closer and closer, and then the trail stopped dead. She spent a minute looking for him, but could find no trace of him. She sighed, stopping the spell and dropping the shield. The other three looked at her and said in a chorus,

"What happened?"

"I don't know, I found him, at the brink of death, and then he just disappeared, I tried finding him, but it was helpless."

"Well at least this means that Princess Celestia doesn't have to deal with him."

"I guess so, lets get back to bed", Twilight replied with another sigh.

In the Royal Garden,

Spike had woken early, and had been unable to find Twilight. So he went out into the garden for some fresh air. Princess Celestia had just started to raise the sun, and its light was just starting to coat the lands of Equestria. He could sense something odd in the air like magic, a very old magic, but he brushed it off, instead thinking that there were gems in the garden and he was determined to find them.

                                                                     Swift Hooves couldn't feel anymore pain, but when he turned his head to his injuries they were still there, pulsating blood. He had been falling for a couple of minutes now, but he was still unsure of his whereabouts. The place seemed to go on forever, there was blue light everywhere. Suddenly, the place began to shake, he could feel the very bones in his body being shaken as well. He saw a green light underneath him, he was plummeting towards it, but what could he do?

"This is going to hurt a lot", Swift said to himself, as he passed out.

THUD.

Spike jumped into the air, turning around to see that something had fallen on the bushes behind him.

"Who's there?"

There was no reply, Spike felt scared, he looked around for a guard, but no one was there, it was only him and whatever lay in those bushes. He saw a pool of red liquid slowly roll out of the bush, he looked at it more closely and realised it was blood.

"GUARDS, I NEED HELP OVER HERE."

A lone guard was patrolling the corridor leading to the Royal Garden, when he heard the shout of somepony. He rushed towards the source of the shout, horn glowing and ready to defend. When he came into range he was Princess Twilight's assistant panicking, and urging him towards the bush. He saw the mangled body of a stallion, barely alive but breathing.

As other guards arrived, he took the initiative, hauling the stallion onto his back and rushing to the Royal hospital, the other guards following in pursuit.

In Celestia's Study,

Princess Celestia had just finished rising the sun. She felt exhausted, but she had to continue, for the good of Equestria, but she wondered how she was going to keep up with all the work she had. While still in deep thought, she had not realised that a black outline, like a burn, was forming on the outside of her cutie mark, when it was complete, it began glowing in a faint cyan colour. She heard the sounds of stampeding hooves and shouts, she sighed as she left her study to investigate.

In Princess Luna's , Twilight's, Shinning Armour and Cadence's chambers,

After breaking into the library, Luna was exhausted and knew she had to sleep, those financial reports would not process themselves, nor would the meetings between city councils conduct themselves. She had fallen asleep for only an hour when she heard shouts and the stampeding of hooves. That would be her sister's problem, not hers.

                                                                           Twilight still awake tumbled in her bed still concern with the fact that he had just disappeared. It shouldn't be possible! She couldn't hear the stampeding of hooves and shouts that occurred, because of the logic war that was being waged in her mind.

                                                                           Meanwhile, Cadence and her husband were engaged in their usual "strenuous exercise" that they partook in when they went to bed, and were unable to hear the commotion gripping the castle.