The Riddle (Cancelled)

                                                                             TheRiddle

                                                                   By:Twilight is best pony

                                                                        Chapter:TheCat

(A/N):I do not own this 'cat'. Rights to said 'cat' goes to American-Mcgee...DAMN IT I JUST GAVE IT AWAY!  I also don't own NightShade, he's from the fiction Ascended by BlackWing.

CRASH!

The sound of shattering glass reverberated throughout the royal throne room of the two alicorn sisters which, NightShade had expected to also house a few of the, as Shade called them,'expressionless', royal guards but much to his surprise there were none since there is always at least two or three.

"NightShade, I would very much appreciate it if you stopped using the staind-glass window as easy entrance to the castle."  Came the soft but clearly annoyed tone of Princess Celestia.

Grunting from being in pain of having crashed through a colorful stained-glass window at just about the speed of light, and from small glass shards jutting out of his back along with most of the pain coming from crash-landing on laminated tile...other than that he was fine.  Standing up and wiping the shards of glass from his back he said,

"Not my fault that flying at half the speed of sound is difficult, besides that you wanted to see me?" said the human protecter of Equestria with a sign of slight pain in his voice.

"Ah yes, the riddle your friend spoke of is one that has been thought lost for almost three decades.  Now im afraid that it has returned in the form of a voice similar to that of my sisters back when she was, ummm... shall we say 'possessed'."

"So are you saying this riddle Zecora heard in her head is evil? And if so, how do we stop it?" said NightShade in a confused tone, his train of thought was cut off by a voice he recognized as...

"Luna, have you found anything in that book of rhymes you found in the library yet?  We don't have that much time left until he cant be summoned anymore."

"Indeed I have dear sister, It says," the midnight blue alicorn began to read the passage, "The only way to defeat this riddle and rhyme is to burn the books of ancient time...how odd. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go to my chambers so I can summon an old friend of mine." and with that final remark she closed the book and teleported out of the throne room, leaving only Shade and Celestia left in silence.  NightShade knew how fragile silence is so, he decided to break it.

"Until who can be summoned, Dracula?" the human said in a very sarcastic tone of voice and he began to chuckle a bit at the joke then after a few seconds, the sun-goddess joined in the laughter.

"Oh no, not all.  Though I guess you could consider him," she gulped heavily as if nervous "...'mildly deceased'."  Said the royal alicorn with a slight quiver in her voice.  'Lets hope The Cheshire Cat is in a good mood unlike last time...'

Inside Luna's royal bed chambers

"Alright, lets hope this still works considering the fact that we haven't used this spell in half a millennium."  Luna started to relax then her horn started glowing a midnight blue, it eventually began glowing so bright that it started illuminating the entire room.  The spell she was trying to cast was one able to summon one creature from an entirely different universe, this ranged from: Imps to Centaurs, Humans to...cats.  This specific cat she was summoning was immortal, of course it could be killed but it would only re-appear after being re-materilized in what was known to him as the "Rabbit Hole".

"Just about there, just a little longer...GOT IT!" exclaimed Luna as the spell was completed, and not a moment to soon...for just as the clock chimed 12'oclock, a familiar pair of glowing yellow eyes appeared a foot in front of luna, then slowly like mist, a head of a cat started to appear sporting a wicked grin that screams madness.

"You call?  You know its not nice to wake me up durrrring my cat nap."  the cat said in a deep and disturbing voice, yawning in the process.  As the rest of it's decomposing body appeared, the final thing to appear on the cat was the ears, one of them pierced.

"Heh, it's nice to see your face again, Cheshire." said luna with a friendly smile on her muzzle.

"Yes, and as always you look quite purrrrfect, grown up a bit I see.  Just like alice." Cheshire said still sporting the grin that seemed pasted on his face his non-peirced ear twitching every so often.

"At least im not a knife wielding card murderer like thou has described her as before, how is she by the way?  But if you don't feel comfortable answering that then I have someone I would like you to meet."

"Listen i'd very much like you to get to your point, but if you must know she is doing quite well..if you call pushing Dr.Whatshisname in front of a passing train doing w-...is that the person that wanted me to meet?" Luna turned her head to the right, and standing right there in the mouth of the doorway with his mouth gapping in total surprise and confusion, was Nightshade.

EVEN MORE HILARITY!!!!!!!

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AppleJack: Hey brother, what in the hay are we supposed to do in here

Medic: I HAVE NO IDEA!!!!!

AppleJack: Who are you and what have you done to BigMac!?

Medic: I HAVE NO IDEA!!!!!

AppleJack: Can you say anythin' else?

Medic: I HAVE NO IDEA!!!!!

AppleJack: *FaceHoof*