An Old Whooves Tale.

The guard came up to Princess Luna and spoke, “You’re sister has gone to MareCity to investigate the disappearances Princess.”

“I realize that, I observed her carriage leave.

“Of course, my apologize for interrupting you Princess Luna.”

“Tis nothing, now please no more disturbances.”

“As you wish your highness.” The guard retreated down the watchtower and Luna was again left with her thoughts. Didn’t even wonder if I wanted to assist her. She believes she can handle it herself, or that I may get in the way. Luan shook off her negative thoughts of her sister and watched the stars twinkle. Just then something large crashed behind her and she positioned herself ready to attack. However when the smoke cleared there were only the two ponies from earlier mixed with bits of roof.

“You’re that Doctor from before! How did you get passed the barrier- Never mind that, guards!” She called out, but the Doctor got up and waved his hooves around.

“No no no please none of that again. Princess Luna I come bearing news of the strange phenomenon in Equestira.”

“I have heard your song before Doctor, I was not impressed.” She motioned again to call the guards, but the Doctor motioned with his hooves and cut her off.

“No please, this time I actually have information regarding the disappearances of the ponies and parts of the land!”

“Please your highness, it would not be terrible just to hear us out!” Derpy added finally getting up. The Princess stared at the two intensely and finally closed her eyes and said,

“ You have little time to speak. Make it count.”

“Excellent,” the Doctor exclaimed. “My assistant and I went to the house of the most recent disappearance in PonyVille.

We believe it to be the home of a Sugar Song and when we entered I noticed that something had actually taken apart the lock to her door from the inside out. All the gears and metal inside just disappeared. I also noticed that part of her floorboard was missing, but it wasn’t just taken out. It was removed from existence.”

“This is sounding exaggerated Doctor.”

“Wait, I’m sorry your highness allow me to finish. Then my assistant Derpy found a clue that whatever was causing the ponies to disappear had some connection to the Everfree Forest. So as we searched through the forest, we eventually found a castle that is being constructed as we speak.”

“A castle? I highly doubt that Doctor, a castle just does not sprout out of the blue, especially in my kingdom!”

“No it doesn’t, but this one has and I’ll tell you why. When we went into that castle it was completely dark on the inside and we came upon the filly that was taken from her home. However Princess she was possessed. She was possessed by a creature not of this world or any other world.” The Doctor paused and Luna did not interrupt him this time.

“You see princess, I am not of this world either, or really this dimension- anyways that doesn’t matter. I am what’s known as a Time Lord; my people have been around nearly since the beginning of creation, and I have an extensive knowledge of this universe and others. However, I saw something today I never thought possible.”

Luna resettled herself and the Doctor could see that her breathing was beginning to quicken and she was becoming nervous.

“See when the universe was created, it was created by the most basic building block of all, matter. Matter is the quarts, atoms, molecules that make up everything like the air we breath to us ourselves. However there is also something that exists between matter something we cannot see."

"This is dark matter. Dark matter exists for no reason other than to fill in the gaps left by matter, it’s the spaces between planets and even the spaces between atoms. Now there is a place that is made solely of dark matter and this place is called the void. The void is the buffer zone between universes, nothing exists there- until today however. See this creature we found in that castle was the embodiment of dark matter. Some how some way, after billions of years this creature evolved from dark matter and gained consciousness.”

“So what does this creature want?” Luna asked, still listening intently to the Doctor.

“I don’t know, that’s the thing, but it has something to do with the castle and the nighttime. It takes ponies by sucking them into the void and then it takes control of their minds.” The Doctor paused for a moment and Luna finally broke eye contact with the Doctor. After a moment Luna finally said,

“Doctor I hope you realize that you have reveled the most disturbing news to me.”

“Yes ma’am I do, it’s hard even for me to swallow.” Luna looked into the night’s sky, she contemplated for a moment, and then spoke,

“I want to get our armies ready. “We are going to launch an assault on that castle and destroy this creature.”

“Ma’am I’d have to advise heavily against that. Before we do anything we need to inform Princess Celestia of the situation and have her here and ready, where is she?”

“Ah yes my sister, of course,” Luna said disappointed. “She’s left to MareCity to investigate the disappearances there.”

“Then we need to get her back here as soon as possible, because without her we are completely defenseless.”

“Then go tell the messengers to have a pegasus fly and give her the message.”

“Righto, I’ll be right back!” The Doctor sped down the tower latter and left Derpy with Princess Luna.