Chapter eleven: A powerful find

It had been two days after Rainbow Dash's parents came over to visit her and Conner for dinner and Conner was up and about, hunting for a grayish green Pegasus pony with a dark blue mane and tail with a blood red stripe running down the mane and tail and the stallion's name is Night Forest. Conner heard from Pinkie Pie that Night Forest was the local biologist of Ponyville and had an enormous amount of plants from all over Equestria in his own green house, but the stallion complained about how the Princesses were taking this expansion of the cities of Equestria too far and threatened to go public with his complaints. Conner had to stop Night Forest from speaking out against the Princesses and bring that stallion to the Princesses for questioning.

As Conner was walking towards Night Forest's house to question him and bring the stallion to justice, he was also thinking that what Night Forest might be saying is true in a respect that nature was vital to life it's self. When Conner made it to Night Forest's house, he knocked on the door and there was no response from inside the house. 'That's strange,' Conner thought to himself as he knocked on the door again and still there was no response. So Conner was forced to kick the front door open with his back legs and only to find that Night forest was no where to be found. "What happened here?" Conner asked himself as he checked Night Forest's house for any clue as to where Night Forest could be hiding.

Conner soon began to have another one of his Eagle visions where he could see what was happening in the past of a certain area and this one showed Night Forest going through his research as he was also studying a certain plant that he must have recovered sometime ago, but Night Forest seemed furious of something as the grayish green stallion got up from his chair and took the plant with him to the green house. 'Oh my beautiful little plant,' Night Forest said to his plant as he placed it next to two larger plants, 'I fear that you and you're plant pals could be the last of you're kinds, but I will not let that happen to you.' He then started walking towards three other plants on his right. 'I can assure you that I will do what I can to save all of you, I promise that,' he continued to talk to his plants, 'But now I must be off, for I have to meet my friends later on.' He then left the green house to meet his friends at Celestia knows where he was going to meet them.'

When Conner's Eagle vision ended, Conner thought to himself, 'Where would he be going to meet up with his friends?' as he found Night Forest's journal laying on the stallion's desk. Conner hesitated to look inside the journal for a few seconds until he opened the journal and scrolled through the pages to find something to help find out where Night Forest was meeting his friends at and when will it be. He soon found the page he was looking for, a note in the stallion's journal saying:

Journal entry 324:

It has been at least twelve years since my first study of plants and I'm trying to get the Princesses to stop the expansion of the cities of Equestria, but it seems I keep failing my requests to the Princesses. But tonight, I'am meeting my friends at Donut Joe's donuts shop at 10:30 PM tonight to talk about what we should do to not only protect nature, but to think of ways of modernizing Equestria that doesn't have to do with expanding the cities of Equestria it's self. It would make me happy if the Princesses accept this next offer. But if they don't accept this offer, I will be forced to kill the Princesses.

I would regret having to kill the Princesses in cold blood, but if they won't accept this final offer we have thought of, then they should die for it. I must put this entry to a close for I don't want to be late for my meeting with my friends.

Night Forest.

Now that Conner knows where and when Night Forest was going to be, he can ambush the grayish green stallion at the entrance of Donut Joe's donuts shop. But Conner was also shocked to read that he would go as far as to threaten the Princesses by murdering them in cold blood. 'Maybe it's time for Rainbow Dash to have her first blood,' Conner thought to himself as he closed Night Forest's journal and flue off to find Rainbow Dash.

With Rainbow Dash:

Rainbow Dash was flying around, looking for Pinkie Pie because Rainbow Dash wanted to know where Mr. and Mrs. Cake was so she could ask them if they could make the wedding cake for Rainbow Dash's and Conner's wedding. She was really getting excited for their wedding for she wanted to be with Conner for as long as they live. Rainbow Dash soon found Pinkie Pie prancing around the streets of Ponyville, probably looking for something fun to do, and then as Rainbow Dash flue down to Pinkie Pie, she called out to Pinkie Pie, "Pinkie!" As Pinkie Pie turned to see Rainbow Dash had landed right next to her, Rainbow Dash said to her, "I was looking all over Ponyville for you, have you seen Mr. and Mrs. Cake any where?"

"Hi Rainbow Dash," Pinkie Pie greeted with big smile, "Oh, and Mr. and Mrs. Cake have just left on a train to drop off a cake at Manehatten," Pinkie Pie then replied to Rainbow Dash's question, "I think the mare's name is Silver Star."

As they were walking through the streets of Ponyville, Rainbow Dash asked Pinkie Pie, "Well, when they get back from Manehatten, do you think that you can tell them that I asked if they could make the wedding cake for me and Conner's wedding?"

Pinkie Pie literally thought for a second, until she replied happily, "Of course I can tell them for you, Rainbow Dash."

"Thank you so much Pinkie Pie," Rainbow Dash thanked her best friend, when she saw Conner flying towards her, "What's going on Conner?" she asked him.

"How would you like to make you're first assassination attempt, Rainbow Dash?" Conner asked her.

Rainbow Dash's eyes shot open for she was not only excited about their wedding, but she was also itching to attempt her first assassination on a criminal. "I would love to try my first assassination, Conner," rainbow Dash replied to her soon to be husband with a smirk on her face.

"Do you still have you're hidden blades?" Conner asked again.

"I never leave our home without them," Rainbow Dash replied as she revealed one of her hidden blades to Conner.

"Then let's go, Rainbow Dash this will be you're true test to be a real assassin," Conner exclaimed as they flue off to Canterlot.

A few minutes later:

When Conner and Rainbow Dash made it to Donut Joe's donuts shop, Rainbow Dash had already gotten her assassin's robe on, and they started waiting at the shop for Night Forest, and like assassins on Earth, Conner and Rainbow Dash blended in with the crowd because it will be a way to stay hidden from the target. "Remember what I showed you Rainbow Dash," Conner reminded Rainbow Dash, "You must wait for the right time to strike you're target," as he saw Rainbow Dash was starting to become impatient, "And impatience can also make you careless."

Rainbow Dash started to calm down as she asked Conner, "Who exactly are we hunting for though?"

"We're hunting a stallion named Night Forest," Conner replied to Rainbow Dash, "And he's threatening the Princesses because of their ideas of expanding the cities of Equestria have gotten too far."

"That's all?" Rainbow Dash asked to him again as Conner nodded in response, "Well this is going to be easy."

Just the, they heard the door open, and they saw a grayish green stallion and Conner knew it was Night Forest. Conner then whispered to Rainbow Dash, "Do you see that stallion at the door?"

"Yeah, I do," Rainbow Dash replied to him, "Is that suppose to be Night Forest?" she asked him.

"Yes, that is Night Forest," Conner replied to her as they watched Night Forest walk towards a table with a blueish green male unicorn, a reddish orange female Pegasus, and a purplish white female Earth pony, "That must be his friends, but we must not strike just yet."

"Then what are we going to do then?" Rainbow Dash asked.

Conner started to think for a few seconds until he replied to her in a whisper, "Let's get on top of the roof of the shop and that way we can assassinate him in the dark of Luna's night." Conner and Rainbow Dash then walked out of the donuts shop and with out anypony looking, they flue up on the top of of the roof of the donuts shop, and then waited for Night Forest to come out.

As they were wait, Rainbow Dash asked Conner, "So Conner, what was you're mother like?"

"Well my mother was a beautiful woman," Conner replied with a sigh of sadness, but his blank expression helped to hide it from Rainbow Dash, "She was wise, smart, kind, and she also cared for our lands on where our village used to stand."

"You're mother does sound like she was truly a woman I would like to meet," Rainbow Dash stated as they soon heard the doors to the donuts shop open and as they saw Night Forest come out of the shop.

"Ready Rainbow Dash?" Conner exclaimed as Rainbow Dash nodded in response and was ready to strike Night Forest down, "Wait for it Rainbow Dash, wait for it," Conner said until he saw the moment, "Now Rainbow Dash." Rainbow Dash then jumped off the roof as one of her hidden blades come out and then struck the grayish green stallion in the neck.

"Who... who are you?" Night Forest asked weakly.

"I'am an assassin, the one who protects Equestria's free will," Rainbow Dash replied from under her robe's hood to the dying stallion, "You threatened to murder the Princesses."

"Only because they won't except my offers and they're also harming nature it's self," Night Forest said to her, "But now you've put an end to that now."

"If you speak the truth, then we will carry you're last words to the Princesses," Conner offered to Night Forest.

"They must stop the expansion of the cities of Equestria," Night Forest said to them weakly.

"Why them and not you and you're friends?" Rainbow Dash asked him.

"Do you think that we asked the same question to the Princesses?" Night Forest asked her, "These things take time, but we might have changed Equestria if you let us play our part."

"Part of the puppeteer," Rainbow Dash corrected to the dying stallion, "The strings should be cut off, all should be free."

"You use you're blade like a stallion, but you're mouth like a filly," Night Forest said to Rainbow Dash, "And now nature will die now... because of that," as the grayish green stallion drew his last and final breath.

"Rest in peace, Night Forest," Rainbow Dash said to the corpse as she closed his eyes with her hoof.

"You did well, Rainbow Dash," Conner said to her as he put a hoof on her shoulder, "Come on, let's get out of here before we're noticed." Conner and Rainbow Dash then flew off, leaving the body of Night Forest to be found in the morning.

As they were flying back to their house, Conner suddenly saw a bright green light coming from inside the darkness of the Everfree Forest. "Hey Rainbow Dash," Conner said to his soon to be wife as she looked back at him, "Look down there and tell me what you see."

Rainbow Dash looked down at where Conner was looking at and she also saw the glow to as she asked him, "What is that down there?" They flue down to see what that glowing object was and they found a shiny green colored dagger with some flute-like characteristics with a silver blade and the dagger was stuck inside a large boulder.

"It looks like some kind of dagger," Rainbow Dash said as they got closer to the dagger.

Conner was about to grab and pull the green and gold dagger with his mouth when Rainbow Dash said from the other side of the boulder, "Conner, I found some writing on this side of the boulder," stopping Conner in his tracks and went to see what Rainbow Dash had just found on the other side of the boulder.

"It says The Eagle Dagger is a weapon of the greatest power to who ever wields it, but many ponies tried to pull this dagger from this boulder, but all have failed in succeeding," Conner read the writing on the boulder, "The legend tells that The Eagle Dagger will choose the who will wield it and the knowledge within the dagger will also be given to wielder so he or she may know how to use this dagger." Conner and Rainbow Dash then looked at each other and then looked at the Eagle Dagger. Conner then went back up to try and pull the dagger from the boulder with his mouth and he suddenly manages to pull the Eagle Dagger out of the boulder.

"Conner!" Rainbow Dash yelled as she ran towards Conner, "It looks like the dagger has chosen you," she said to him.

Conner soon felt the knowledge on how to use the Eagle Dagger flow through his own mind and he began to play music with the dagger sending waves of energy out of him and the dagger it's self. Conner's eyes began to glow as a giant transparent bird that was a bright green color appeared drawn to the music of the dagger. "What the heck is that thing?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"From the knowledge I was given by the dagger, that is the Eagle Spirit," Conner replied to Rainbow Dash, "He can appear if I call him with the dagger."

"That is so awesome, Conner," Rainbow Dash said to him as Conner called off the Eagle spirit and then they flue off back to their house so they can get some sleep.

To be continued...

Author's Note

Okay I improved this chapter for some of you guys.