Equestria Girls: A Black Rose by any Name

***A Black Rose by any Name...

Chapter 1: Black Rose***

Through the clouds to a mountain across the white covered peaks the stream of water through the forest to a lash town full of people getting up for the new morning with the sun rising from the large lash green plains, the sun shined upon the large spire towering over the centre of the town made out of crystal from outside to inside shimmering from the sun light.

Inside a crystal heart spinning on two crystal spikes held floating between them spin with the sun shining and reflecting off multiple surfaces bursting beams of light into the sky creating a effect of a aurora. A person stepping out of the hotel looked up to the sky with a smile taking a few pictures before heading off to get the coach to the Crystal Empire Ruins that was waiting outside the hotel with the location on the front of the coach, standing at the door a man with sight lime colour skin with mint three tone colour hair sparkling a little to the sun light with a jacket on showing a tower on it letting the holiday makers on board taking their tickets with a smile on his face.

A gentleman wearing a red suit with slight grey skin with jet black wavy hair wearing a silver brace around his head with orb in the middle with a silver spike on either end with sharp red eyes raised his hand with a smile walking by “Morning Ardent”

“Morning Mayor Sombra” Ardent replied with a wave and smile. “It look like we got another great morning”

Sombra look to the sky “Indeed we do and what a lovely morning it is” he turn to Ardent and continues to walk on down the street whistling to himself. Ardent smiled then got on the coach and it departs for the ruins close to the mountain ridge

Sombra comes around the corner of the sweet to the plaza leading to the Crystal Town Historical Museum after hearing of the theft of one of their most priceless crystals that was on display. He walked towards it seeing the Police already there talking to some of the guards and a few entering the building.

Sombra came up to a officer with the four stripes on the shoulder with a crystal shield on his chest pocket of the uniform “Captain Crystal Shield report” the captain had purple short hair with blue eyes and a slight blue skin.

Crystal Shield turn to the mayor with a sigh passing on the papers to one of the other police officers “It was her again Mayor Sombra... she stole a crystal that was from the ruins”

They walking up the stairs heading inside “First it was a Fire Ruby that was made a few months ago then a crystal from the mines a few years ago and now a very old crystal that cracked and little value part from historical value of a empire that was ruled once a long time ago” they stood before the tablet. “The king that became greedy cast down and the empire that fell to all scenes of natural disasters and lost for 1000 years... I almost came a repeat”

“Sir?” Crystal Shield stood by him looking a bit lost by his words.

“I founded this town and found the ruins... my greed of power almost lost my soul to it my friend, I had someone to change my heart...” he turns and leave but stops to turn to the captain “Crystal Shield”

“Sir”

“Black Rose has a reason for stealing these crystals, once that reason is found I am sure you will find her” Sombra walks off down the corridor leaving the captain looking to the tablet with a questionable look on his face.

Crystal Shield turn his eyes again to the case “Reason for stealing the crystals... wealth is only one form of power... she not after that but something more... what possibly could there be that a form of power to those that wish to rule?” he was left pounding over it with arms behind his back continue to stare at the tablet for answers he seeks to solve the crime of Black Rose in Crystal Town.

Later...

The sun started to set as the sound of bell is heard as the students of Crystal High School leave for home or to go to the cafés. One of them being Electuroo whom was heading home on his bike wearing blue jeans, brown and black sleeveless jacket, red and white trainers with a white t-shirt with three lightning bolts on it spend to home down the road side with the cream, black and orange hair waving in the wind with his yellowish face feeling it too.

Electuroo hit the brakes slowing it to a stop and glancing up at the Crystal Spire as the aurora shimmered in the sky due to the sunset. “What a birthday this been... only one friend to celebrate it with...” he sighed and rides on to home.

He pulled up to his house getting off his bike and walked inside. “Hello Electuroo how was school?”

“Same old usually stuff Mum” Electuroo replied walking right up the steps to his room.

His mum sighed looking up the stairs wearing red t-shirt, blue jeans with skin almost white with silver hair wearing two star like earrings “Is any of your friends coming to the birthday party tonight?”

“Only Braeburn” he called back from his room putting his bag down. “I don't have anyone else to call friends... they just love to pick on me all the time...”

Stardust didn't reply to it and walks into the kitchen “Kids can be so crawl at times... I know how that felt when I was his age...” Stardust sighed heavily looking at the cake she bought then at the gift on the table side, taking it she came up to his room.

“Electuroo?”

“Yeah mum?” she stepped into his room seeing Electuroo lying on his bed bouncing a tennis ball off the wall and catching it

Stardust sat down by the bed “Sorry about only one showing up... I wish there more I could do to help you”

Electuroo sat up “It fine mum, just wish things could be different” he sighed heavily looking out the window. “This town cool and all but it just been a few years and still got one friend...”

“I know...” Stardust put the gift in his hand “Open it”

Electuroo opened it up and showed a crystal in it “Mum this is...”

“Yours, it passed on to you as it been done so for 160 generations.” Stardust smiled putting a hand on his shoulder “Sombra be here soon and we have a party with you, me, Angel and Sombra ok?”

“Ok mum” Electuroo hugged her “Thanks”

“Your welcomed young man” Stardust gets up and leaves his room.

Electuroo look to the crystal, it was almost star like shaped with pointy ends with it shimmering with silver light in the sun “The Stardust Crystal... what a sight...” he put it away in the box and place it on the table leaving to go join his mother and the only friend to show up Bareburn a good friend living on the apple farm on the outskirts of the city.

“Hey there partner how it going?” Bareburn grinned pushing up his hat back a little “Got ya a gift from me and the folks back at sweet... AAAAAppleloosa! Orchard”

Electuroo chuckled taking the gift from him “Hehe you and your Appleloosa farm” he chuckled opening the gift “Wow sweet” he checked out the leather jacket it “Was this hand stitched?”

“Sure was partner, since y'all hang out at the farm a lot ah'm thought ya like something official to wear when ya come on round” Bareburn still having a big smirk.

“Ok birthday boy time to blow out the candles right after we sing you happy birthday” Stardust showing the cake and they all started to sing...

As the party goes on with them singing happy birthday to Electuroo a figure stands by the window and forces it open stepping into the room “Right on time” she smirked seeing the box and picking it up “I knew scouting out this place would bring me the main prize” she pulled the lid open seeing the crystal and raised it. “Stardust Crystal what a beauty and holds so many secrets too”

She turn to the sound of the singing ending and the sound of steps before she could react the door opens with Electuroo staying right at her. “Who the heck are you and what the heck you doing my room?” he stared at the black dressed lady with pure black hair with silver lines through it with sharp red eyes with a creamy colour skin smirked at him with a rose in her other hand.

“Black Rose is my name kid and I be taking this gem off your hands” she toss the rose on to the table and she jumped out the window, he quickly ran down out the door down the stairs and out the house to see her running towards the hotel.

Electuroo got on his bike “Your not going to steal my mothers crystal!” he rides after her.

Stardust, Bareburn and Sombra with Electuroo's sister Angel came out of the house seeing him ride off after the thief “Electuroo!” Stardust called out but he ignored her and rides fast to catch Black Rose.

The bus was about to pull away when Black Rose open the doors with a crystal held up it glowed with black aura,  Ardent gasped seeing this and she stepping on “Don't try anything” she said with sweat pouring from her face the energy used from the crystal zapped her energy “Take me to the ruins or I will have to do something to you with this” she held the black crystal up to him.

Ardent gulped “Yes ma'am...” he closed the doors and pulled the bus away heading to the ruins staring at the crystal he was really scared. “What are you going to do with me?”

“Nothing, you are not worth my time, but if you don't get me to the ruins I will do something got it?” Black Rose poked him with her other hand

Electuroo rode his bike fast he could chasing the bus down the road to the ruins “No way that thief getting away with my mums crystal! She gave me it as a birthday gift and I will get it back” he spoke to himself with pour determination to get the Stardust Crystal back.

“The gates are closed we not...”  Ardent spoke remembering that the gates to the ruins was closed and guards be on duty to keep them safe from trespassers.

Black Rose glared at him “Smash through the gates” she press the crystal against his chest. “Or do I have to get nasty”

Ardent saw it shimmering with black aura like before and he had no choice, punching the gear up he spend for the gates “Better hold on... this isn't going to be pretty”

The guards saw the bus speeding right for the gates they waving and shouting at it then they dived out the way as it speeds through the gate carrying on down the road into the ruins, they about to call for back up when they saw Electuroo on his bike shot by “What the blazes is going on?” one guard spoke and the other shrugs as they watch the high school student chase after the bus into the ruins.

They turn to the sound of another sound of a engine and saw it was a police car that came to a stop “Captain Crystal Shield a bus just smashed through the gate and it seem someone on a bike was chasing it...” the other guard said to him.

Crystal Shield look to the passengers being Stardust, Sombra, Barburn and Angel “Hold on tight we got some catching up to do” they nod and the car speeds off down into the ruins with the guards looking to each other then at the ruins seeing the flashing lights get dimmer as the police car got further into the ruins..

The bus comes to a stop just outside the ruins and the door opens “Thanks for the ride” she toss the crystal to Ardent and he caught it. “I won't be needing that anymore” she jumps out of the bus and run into the ruins.

Ardent toss the crystal quickly it shattering on impact with a flash of black aura coming out of it and disappearing into thin air “That was creepy... I knew I was working too hard...”

Electuroo stopped outside the door getting off his bike “Where is she?”

“That creepy lady... in the ruins she ran into that...” he points to part of the ruins with 'no entry' sign on it.

Electuroo sighed “why am I not surprised...” he runs into the ruins pushing the gates open.

“Don't go in there it not safe!” Ardent called out but his words go unnoticed and he saw the police car stop with everyone getting out “Mayor Sombra”

“Where are they?” he asked instantly coming to  Ardent

Ardent points to the gates as they close “They went in there...”

Stardust walks to it “Then I am going in too” she then get held by Crystal Shield and Sombra “Get off me! My son gone in there!”

“I know ma'am but that area isn't safe” Crystal Shield said back to her. “There a lot of unknowns in there”

Stardust turn to him freeing herself from them “What unknowns?”

Sombra looked at the gate and back at her “It been sealed off because of strange things going on inside those parts of the ruins that I don't even understand, for the safety of all we sealed it off...”

“It not going to stop me for getting to that thief and my son” Stardust turn to it and Sombra stood in the way “Sombra out of the way...”

“I can't do that Stardust, we have to wait outside till he comes back, there is no way I am allowing anyone else to enter that part of the ruins...” Sombra said in a serious tone of voice “I am sorry Stardust but I am not going to change my mind on this”

Ardent step up to her “the mayor right... I been in there once and it was weird... I felt like if something was watching me and it gave me the creeps and some people that worked there came back never step foot in the ruins again”

Stardust kicks the police car hard with anger and turn to them “Then you better hope nothing happens to my son or your in for it!” she pokes Sombra in the chest “You got it!”

Sombra rubbing his chest “Yes I understand Stardust and I will take responsibility for what ever happens......”

They turn to the doors now awaiting for Electuroo's return either with or without the Stardust Crystal, all Stardust wanted was her son to return safely then about a crystal that been in the family for a very long time with Sombra standing by her knowing she felt helpless as much he was...

Bareburn stared at the gate leading to the ruins. “Time to sneak on in” he took the chance and sneak by them.

Sealed Off Ruins...

Remains of a corridor lined with white walls with carvings showing events of the empire that was once was as Black Rose ran by them stopping with a torch in a case she takes it and shines it into a stair well then she heard foot steps and saw him. “You really want it back don't you?”

Electuroo took hold of a torch of his own and turn it on shining it at her “It doesn't belong to you so give it back and I will let you go on your way”

Black Rose smirked “I really can't do that”  she held it up in her view “I really need it for something really important” she put it back in her pouch. “Be seeing ya” she run down the stairs

Electuroo run up to the stairs looking down them “Gah damn it!” he chases her down the steps soon finding himself in a large chamber looking to his right then left he felt something really creepy about this place shining the torch at the ruins, he saw crystals lying around all over the place but one thing that stuck out was a pair of Pegasus and Unicorns, one on each side of one of the corridors with crystals around each of their necks or heads like a necklace of helmets. “Wow...”

Electuroo saw another show two crystal made horses also further in “Talk about weird... it almost as if they worshipped horses, mules or ponies... I wonder if they worshipped gods based on a belief they was equines” he touch one of statues and heard a stone fall shining the light down it he saw her fitting a crystal into the Unicorn chest plate. “YOU!”

She leaps off the statue by the corridor with a grin “Well let see if you can catch me” she runs down the corridor and he gives chase running hard as he could tossing the torch to the side he chased her seeing the flicking light of the torch she was holding as she ran.

Electuroo was closing in on her ignoring the strange effects happening around him as if the dark corridors started to light up and twist and turn “Almost got her” he whispers reaching out to her arm feeling that he almost out of energy as he closed in on her and came to a stop in a instant seeing her disappear in a blinding light. He fell over staring in shock what happened...

“Wh-what the heck was that?” he slowly got up walking over to it putting a hand out, the light appears and he pulled back again. “Ok seriously weird...” he step back and felt a hand on his arm making him almost yelp in shock he turn around to Braeburn “You almost scared me to death Braeburn”

“Sorry ah just came even ya ma told me not to, where did that thief go?” Braeburn walked up to it but Electuroo held him back as it shimmered at a touch a hand “Whoa what in hay is this?” he put his hand through the invisible field seeing something odd “Hey look at that mah hand a hoof” he chuckled

“Say what?” Electuroo saw it “Whoa...” he did the same and then pulled his hand back out “Maybe we shouldn't do anything crazy...”

Braeburn pulled his hand out “Well she did steal y'all crystal right?”

“Yeah...”

“And that Black Rose lady must have a reason to going through whatever this is” he point to the passageway “So what ya think go or go back to y'all mum empty handed?”

Electuroo rubbing the back of his head a little “I don't know Braeburn we could get into more trouble by leaping through it and blindly... the corridor seem to carry on but this wall of energy whatever it is could have something completely different on the otherside...”

Braeburn put his hand on his arm “We can go through, have a quick look and come back” he suggested

“A quick look around?”

“Eeyup, no harm in scoping it out right?” Braeburn suggested “So up for it?”

Electuroo look back to where they came and pick up the torch looking to it “Not just yet... throwing us through it might be more trouble then it worth... best to go back first”

“Alright partner, but what about the crystal?”

“We will be going but after we learned more about what this is...”

“Sure thing partner” they turn and walk back down the corridor with both of them looking back the corridor seeing the magical shimmer of the rift. “Partner didn't ya aunt talk of something like this once when she was last round?”

Electuroo eyes widen “You know what... your right! Come on! I know who exactly to call to help us out!” he runs back with Braeburn to outside the ruins.