The Big Three

"Well... there it is." Caleb says staring at the ancient ruins of the once proud castle that Celestia and Luna held before the Everfree took over, "Not really sure what we'll find."

It was true. Though the whole look together there were parts broken off, smothered, and or reduced to rubble. It was hard to believe that what stood was standing itself. Caleb takes the lead with Markus leading up the rear. Fluttershy was hugging close to Elza while Indie looked around the scenery almost side by side to Caleb. The two were whispering something but they fell deaf to the other's ears.

"So what we're hoping to achieve is something of the sisters to help us." Caleb says igniting a hand to illumanate the creeping darkness.

Unlike the last ruins this one had a more dark eerie look to it. A flag of stars and moon hung up a dual stairway. All around them where broken bits of column what seemed to be burnt marks long ago forgotten. The history of this place must have been grand. Which is all the more reason for Indie to get started.

"I can't belive it! Imagine the stories this place could tell! I wonder if any humans were in here! I wonder if the bookmark is still untouched! Do you guys know what that would mean!"

"You get to read even more dusty old books." Caleb says making him and Markus chuckle.

"No! This means that if this was the original place of Celestia maybe they'll be something of her past we can use!"

"Ah okay. Well you better start looking." Caleb says walking up the stairs, "Also while we're at it look up information of the other Alicorn what was her name now Wuna? Shoona?"

"Luna..." Fluttershy croaks out, "Her name is Luna."

"Ah okay! Look up stuff about her as well. Also Markus stick with our hmmmm what should we consider her? A free will slave perhaps? Doesn't matter go with her and make sure she doesn't leave."

"Meh. Even if she did would it really matter? By the time Celestia would get here we would've been left right?"

Caleb shrugs his shoulders.

"Probably not Indie really. Speaking of that son of a man where is he?"

"Heck should I know. I'm neither his father nor his mother." Markus says walking towards one of the exit hallways.

"Yea you could definitely not be his father. You don't have the privates."

"Yea yea we all know you're the female of this group." Markus says motioning for Fluttershy to follow which she does happily.

With a chuckle Caleb shouts out behind them, "Love you too!"

Indie

Indie walked away a long time ago sense he already knew what Caleb's snide remarks would be. They would make remarks like that to each other but they never fazed any of them. He didn't feel up to the usual banter at the thought of all the history he could be learning. It filled him up way past the point of excitement.

"Alright Castle! Show me your history!" He yells opening a door to his right to stumble upon a three giant spiders dressed up like pirates with swords at their sides.

They were looting around it what seemed like a kitchen. Not knowing whether friendly or enemy he waves and says, "Sorry to disturb but."

Before he finishes he's cut off by the roar of the biggest one, probably the leader, who than points at him and the two beside him laugh and run at him. He back up seeps water from his body quickly forming two long water projectiles. He fires them to go through the skull of the spiders but they're quick than he thought. The water shots miss and they quickly turn around and shoot their web. He manages to duck and form water in his hands. As the two right themselves and go for a swift strike of the sword Indie jumps forward water lagging behind him that quickly wrap around the waist of the spiders. Indie yanks the water forward slicing through both the spiderlings spilling their green blood over the burn floor.

"Well, that didn't go as plan but sense I have your attention..."

Before he continues he sees that the giant spider is gone. Fleen from battle at the fall of his comrades.

"Pfft. Coward." Indie says walking further down the corridor.

Caleb

Caleb couldn't help but smile. He felt great whether he wanted to or not. Now they were really trekking in enemy territory for the greater good. He just couldn't wait to find what forgotten secret he could find inside of the forgotten palace. He really couldn't belive that there luck was changing so much. He couldn't help feel that it was a matter of time till.

He stops in his tracks.

"What the..."

A giant spider web stood in front of him. In it held many things wrapped up. By the look of it different creatures were wrapped up hanging int he web. He wondered to himself what type of beast could make something so big as well who now lives in the castle. He simply sighs and sets the web on fire as well as its occupants and continues on his way not wanting to be stalled for any longer.

"Well what the hell! Who the fuck do you think you are!" A raspy voice, well, voices says.

Caleb turns around, hands in pockets, to face the voices. A giant spider with giant skull covering its torso and several spears held in its upper hands, as well as eye batch across is right eye comes down from where the web used to be. The creature stares at Caleb with a fury.

"Who the FUCK do you think you are! Just burning down a web of food as if it was nothing!" The spider yells poising all of the spears he held, "Well to make up for it! You're first on the dinner list!"

The spears come ripping through the air towards him. Caleb brings out his hand and lights his arms on fire while jumping forward getting scratched and cut by spears but completely ignoring them as he sets out on the creature that dares threatens to eat him. He jumps up catching the Spider creature off guard shooting a flame out of his out reached right arm. The flames jet out aiming straight for the monsters face but they miss as it leans back. The creature screams and falls on his back unable to right himself up.

"Argh! Help me up!"

Caleb wants to act serious but in a situation like this there is only one protocol. He busts out laughing at the monster predicament. He couldn't contain himself even if he wanted to. He just let his laughter echo through the some what empty halls awakening something deeper within the chamber.

Walking through the halls weren't so bad. Well it wouldn't be if Fluttershy didn't jump at literately everything along with a zombiefied human walking behind them that can do who knows what isn't the great adventure set.

"Have you ever been in here?" Markus asks looking over his shoulder as they continue to walk by a long line of tapestry on their right and window looking on the outside to their left.

The forest didn't seem so bad from the way they were looking at it. The foliage seemed to be stopping before reaching the castle as if it was afraid to get close but than again plants don't have minds. Right?

"N-N-No... Maybe as a filly b-b-but I don't th-think I ha-have..." Fluttershy gives in response.

Markus lets his head falters while giving a sigh. He doesn't like his situation one bet. He was certainly hoping that the others where having a better time than he was. They round a corner to see skeletons that dawn the walkway. Skeletons of ponies speared to the ground or laying there with arrows in between their bones lay across the floor. The marks of swords scarping against the wall and floor are very evident which comes to the conclusion of a fight here a long time ago. Fluttershy lets out an eep and looks away from the sight disturbed by the bones.

"Man... Wonder what happened here."

He looks over the skeleton noting that some of them had different frame work. A couple slimmer than ones they were closer to.

"We-Well this must have been where the two armies fought once." Fluttershy says.

"Hm? The two armies? Of ponies?" Markus asks turning around wanting to hear more of this.

"Well yea the Celestian army now known as the Solar Order and the Lunar army known now as the Night Watchers. They work together now but back before Luna and Celestia waged war against each other... Most ponies say it was because of jealousy but Twilight had told us it was a different reason..."

"And what reason was that?" Markus now sitting down taking mental notes of every word Fluttershy says.

Fluttershy shuffles her hooves for a second and says, "I don't remember in detail but she said that Luna was concerned about the subjects especially the children. Luna looked into their dreams and saw nothing but nightmare because of how bad everything was. Gryphons were still attacking settlements and our only allies where the zebras at the moment. Luna said she wanted to take the children off somewhere else to form a different colony a happy colony of dreams but Celestia didn't want that. She would't have her subject spread apart. Well tensions grew and slander rose about Luna and how she wasn't doing anything. Trust in Luna fell lower and lower and a report came in about children coming up missing in the night. And well..." Fluttershy goes quite as if remembering something horrible.

Her face seems to darken and she looks out one of the nearby windows at the rising moon. It seems to draw her attention before she shakes her head and says, "That's all I can remember..."

Markus takes in note of her behavior and her some what attraction to the moon just than. Something didn't seem to be adding up but he decides not to press at the moment. At the moment they needed to leave and continue to search the castle.

"Thanks for telling me that Fluttershy." Markus says getting up and returning his sight to the skeletons, "But we better get moving if the moon is coming out."

"Right..." Fluttershy says in a softer tone than usual. One could have mistaken her tone even for the wind.

With that the three continue walking past the skeletons Fluttershy paying them no mind. Unlike before. She would sometimes stray her sight on particular skeletons but wouldn't stop. If Markus had super hearing he would often hear Fluttershy mutter about the children of the night.

The night's air is nice. As it should be. But what made it so much better was the freshness of it all. The smell of death, sickness, and pungent things she doesn't even want to consider down in the chambers below. She shakes her mane and lets loose her wings. She flies up into the sky as the moon rises with her ascent. She loves to go on her night flights.

She hasn't recently do to the circumstances. So far nearly half of them has had the spell put on them making them obedient slaves. And every minute of doing that spell left Luna feeling worse and worse. She doesn't want somepony to live a life like that. A mindless slave only allowed to do as their master say. It was a life for nopony. Even for a human.

She feels something wrong with the aura of the city though. A disturbance not a big one but quite noticeable. With Celestia asleep Luna bet her sister can't feel it. Luna alters her course towards the disturbance to a cut off section of Canterlot where Discord's house resides. She can only think of the jokes or tricks Discord could be thinking up of when a certain glow catches her eye. A glow of mixed green and purple.

Do to her attachment to the element of magic she feels the flow of the power. She can feel the desperateness of it the feelings being put fully into the spell in a(n) attempt to make it work. She can even idenify the spell. Which causes her to speed up.

She blasts a hole into the wall as the spell completes to see Twilight smiling above somepony. Or at least it looks like somepony. The spell has worked. To her dismay but for the lavender pony in front of her she couldn't be any more happy. She has successfully saved her friend giving her a life force to match her own. Something that nopony should ever do.

"Twilight what have you done! Do you know what spell you just used!"

Twilight only giggles and laughs like a maniac ignoring the princess's words. She was in her own world. A world where everypony can be saved and where her mission shall succeed no matter what the cost. There was nothing to be done now. Luna knows it. It's the very same reason why this magic was banned so long ago. How she ever got the spell. She only has one guess.

And that guess was floating above her reclining in a movie chair watching events play out. Oh how she loathed Discord sometimes. But now... She couldn't hate him more.