The Riddle (Cancelled)

The Riddle

By:Twilightisbestpony

Every Journey Begins with a Single Step

(A/N): NightShade is not owned by me, he is the property of BlackWing and is from:Monster...Enjoy

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"=Speaking. And if you see an extended "u" the means Cheshire makes a puuuuuring sound.

Disbelief, Confusion, interest and a great many other thoughts flooded NightShade's mind at the same time:'Who is this?', 'Why is he here?', 'Why the hell can I see his fricken ribcage!'  NightShade could only stare in disbelief as what he guessed was a demented cat with a golden ear piercing and the most twisted smile the human has ever seen, started walking towards him with this...things eye's pulsing every few seconds as it approached closer and closer finally, it spoke.

"Ahh, you must be the one Luna was saying she wanted me to meet, interesting." said the cat that was keeping the same malicious grin on his face, parting only when in the process of speaking.

"Um..uhhh, Luna?  Who in the hell is this, if you don't mind me asking." said a stunned NightShade.  Strange thing is, he recognized this cat but he can't remember from whe-.

"No time for introductions 'Shade, for I need to speak to you both in the throne room...NOW. the regal sun-goddess, now standing in the archway of the door, had said that last word with a firm and serious tone.  NightShade knew the royal sisters well enough to were if they have a tone like that, either they have something planned, their upset or one of them is about to give someone a very important task..such as this one.  However, when Luna observed her sister and the others leave she could overhear a certain human asking a certain Cheshire Cat an odd question:

"If you don't mind me asking, Who are you, and Are you mad?" that last question hung in Luna's mind for a few moments before receiving an answer no later than she had heard it be asked:

The cat turned to face the human before answering, "Well, were im from everyone's quite mad, as for my name" at that moment, the ominous cat fade's off before re-appearing next to a stained glass window next to a pillar in-front of the throne room, "it doesn't matter".  Cheshire then continued on with the others, and with a flick of Celestia's magic the twin doors were opened.

The trio walked into the large throne room with moon light flooding every inch of the laminated tile along with the entire land of Equestria, then the doors were shut by two guards but not before the demented and half dead cat shot NightShade a glare that read 'Now where have I seen you before'?

Cheshire's eye's widened a little when he heard a male voice in his head talk, or more precisely, answer his question with another question; 'Funny, I could ask you the same thing, cat.'

Location: Library, PonyVille Time:11:48 PM

It was nearing the middle of the night, but a certain lavender unicorn couldn't bring herself to get even a wink of sleep, she looked at the alarm clock on her nightstand, it has been more than two hours since the weird conversation with Zecora and more than fifty-three minutes since she began delving into the subject of, 'Weird winds bringing portals into Equestria that spit you into a weird endless void with a voice that say's weird riddles', or to put it in Twilights words: Dimensional Sling-Shots, the current book she was reading gave her the definition of this term as follows: "A certain way of getting from one dimension to another in means of connecting the very strands of one dimension to another in means of transport, for example: A portal".

Speaking quietly as to not wake spike from his slumber, Twilight started to speak, "I can understand Equestria's dictionary being over a few hundred thousand pages, but did it really have to take me just under twenty minutes to get to 'D'."  By this time the clock currently said 12:35, but nevertheless, Twilight was still looking into this strange topic.  But a random thought started to make it's way into the unicorns mind: 'Wheres NightShade'?  Twi didn't know it at the time, but there was about to be another occurrence that was similar to Zecora's situation.

Location: ThroneRoom, CanterlotCastle

"So, thats how we plan on doing this?  You just teleport us into an ancient tomb that is under the castle that, you think, contains these 'Books of Ancient Time', we destroy them which in hope gets rid of this horrible curse that has found someway into Equestria? Or am I missing something".  NightShade was trying to summarize everything that the three of them had just been talking about.  Oddly enough, Shade had a horrible feeling that something was about to go very wrong.

"This isn't a curse NightShade, it's hardly even fake.  This is something way different, this is something far more sinister..other than it not being a curse then thats a pretty accurate summarization". Celestia kept talking as she started walking towards NightShade, horn glowing with a golden hue that radiated with the warmth of the sun despite it being two in the morning.

"...Something like this doesn't happen on a daily basis at this point and time.  Now, hold still while the sp-"

NightShade wasn't listening anymore, instead he was focused on something that caught his eye, 'Is the glass shaking, *Loading.. Loading.. done*, oh fuck.'.  "EVERYONE, GET DOWN"!!  Jumping from his position and tackling the princess to the ground, they soon heard a massive amount of glass shatter as one of the glass windows shattered into tiny pieces as big as apple seeds.  But it didn't end there, forceful winds quickly followed the raining shards of glass, which kept jutting into NightShade's wings which were being used as extra cover up for the alicorn that was underneath the human.  A few moments had passed since the wind had started blowing, it has died down, but the horror wasn't over yet...did NightShade dare take a peek out at the place that might be so horribly wrecked, he lifted his head cautiously and was very stupefied at what he saw before him.

All he saw was glass shards everywhere, furniture was all over the place and some of the wall of the castle had been blown off during the wind storm but, what really caught his eye was a large ominous portal thing glowing with an odd blackish-red hue which marked that it was in fact, evil.

"Oh my god". The human could only manage to stare at the destruction before him, and the portal.  Getting up off of the ground allowing Celestia to get on her hooves again, NightShade started walking towards the portal with all intention on trying to disable it once and for all.

(AN): This chapter was a bit tedious to write. but enjoyable nonetheless.

------------------------------------------------Hilarity may ensure------------------------------------------------------

SilverShadow: "Yay, Twilightisbestpony finally put me in his story, HUZZAH!!'

Chow: "Who?"

SilverShadow: "Umm, Pinkie made me break the fourth-wall

Chow: "Oh wait, nevermind, I found him." *Proceeds to levitate book in-front of Silver*

Silver: 0.0..."CHOW YOU BASTAR-"! *Cut to scene of a nuclear mushroom cloud destroying Equestria*

Somewhere in RavenHolme

GordonFreeman's H.E.V suit: "Warning, massive radiation levels detected"

Freeman: "......"