Guardians of light

Chapter 4

“Honey, what do you think the kids are doing,” I heard a familiar voice. Everything was blurry at first but then it cleared up. I was in a cell with two ponies…a bat pony and a unicorn. It was my mother and father. I knew it was them because they looked like they haven’t aged a day.

“They are most likely living their lives, falling in love, going on adventures and what not,” Dad said. Mom looked towards my direction.

"Is it just me or do I see an older version of our Shadowfire,” she said.

Dad looked at me and asked “Shadow…is that you.”

“Yes, Dad it is me,” I responded. Mom tried to hug me but she only went through. What is happening why am I in a strange place, I asked myself.

“Shadow, where are you exactly,” Dad asked helping Mom up.

“When I last checked I was in my room in the castle,” I said.

“You are in the castle,” he asked excitedly, “my boy is following in his ancestor’s hoofsteps.”

“Well no,” I said, “I actually don’t work for the royal guard I work for one of my friends at her family’s farm."

“Oh,” he said glumly. I guess he still wishes for me to join the guard even after all these years.

Then a guard with red eyes came and yelled “keep it down in here you two.” Suddenly everything was getting fuzzy. “Shadow, you are disappearing,” Mom whispered. I had a feeling I was waking up.

“Wait, tell me where you are, I will find you,” I yelled. Their faces turned sad.

Dad said, “we are in the realm of darkness do not look for us it is too dangerous.”

After everything went dark I heard another familiar soft voice “Excuse me, Shadow, it is time to get up.” I woke up to find Fluttershy by, my bedside.

During breakfast I told everypony about my dream. “I want to go to the realm of darkness to save my parents,” I said. “Shadow, have you lost it,” Rainbow Dash, “need we remind you of what happened last night.”

“I know what is at risk just want to save my parents, if you were in my situation wouldn’t you want to do the same thing,” I asked. She stayed quiet after that then the Princesses walked in.

“Shadow what you want to do can cost you your life are you sure you want to go there,” Princess Celestia asked. I thought for a second but it was not long before i came up with my final answer.

“Yes, I do,” I responded. “Then you should prepare for your journey,” she said and she looked at Princess Luna, they both nodded at each other. I had no clue why they did that but I shrugged it off. I went to my room and Gold was sitting by the window. She noticed me and I told her what I was going to do.

“I know we will find your parents,” she said with

“I’m sorry but I am going in alone,” I said. With that I got my sword and left the room. I went to the throne room where everypony was to see me off and Shining Armor came up to me and said “sorry for attacking you last night.”

“It is fine you weren’t you,” I said.

“Are you ready Shadowfire,” Princess Celestia asked.

“Yes, I am,” I said.

“My sister, Princess Luna will be accompanying you,” she said. Princess Luna had a sattlebag on her back which I was surprised because usually they had a servant to help with that stuff. She noticed that I was confused. “She will be of use to you she has been there before,” she said.

“Aren’t you afraid that she will become Nightmare moon again,” I asked.

“I will not be overcome by the darkness once again,” Princess Luna said.

“Let’s begin,” Princess Luna said. Her horn started to glow and then a dark mass appeared in front of us. Fluttershy then walked up to me and to my surprise she gave me a hug. “Shadow please come back safely, and be careful,” she said.

“I will,” I said. Then Princess Luna and I went into the dark mass and we were in a dark world.

The sun didn’t even shine you could look straight at it without closing your eyes, it was dim. The sun caused enough light to see though but just barely.

“We need to sneak into the jail, Princess Luna,” I said turning towards her.

“Call me Luna, Shadowfire,” she said.

“Ok then call me Shadow,” I responded.

“First things first, where are going to need to find the jail,” I said.

“It is this way,” she pointed out a sign that read jail. “Oh would you look at that,” I said feeling embarrassed. We walked to the jail and there was a guard. Luna stopped and went into an alley dragging me along. “Hold on I have a plan,” she said then she used her magic to make herself look like Nightmare Moon. “Whoa,” I said.

“Do I scare you,” she asked.

“Not much,” I said. “Come hopefully they don’t know what happened a year ago,” she said. We started to walk up to the guard and he asked

“Nightmare Moon, what pleasure do we owe you for the visit?” Luna said

“I heard you have two prisoners from Earth and I would like to interrogate them,” she said.

Then the guard saw me. “And the other pony,” he asked.

“He is my general, where I go he goes,” she said.

“Go on in Ma’am,” he said. We started to walk into the jail.

“That went well,” I said.

“Yes now all we need to do is find your parents,” she said. We saw another guard. I was pretty sure he was the jail’s warden.

“Ah, Nightmare Moon you are looking as beautiful as ever,” he said.

“Enough with the kissing up I am here to interrogate the two ponies from Earth,” she said sternly.

“Yes, I will show you to them,” he said. He showed us to a room with a table and chairs around it.

“They will be here shortly,” he said.

“Leave, we will be done soon,” Luna ordered him.

Minutes passed, we saw my parents coming in and upon entering the door behind them closed. They saw Luna, who still looked like Nightmare Moon, and they freaked. Mom noticed me, and then she started to cry then she hugged me.

“You have grown so much, Shadow,” she said.

“It is great to see you again son,” Dad said but he did not seem happy. “I told you that it was too dangerous for you to come here,” he said with a frown.

“I know but I wanted to get both of you out of here,” I said.

“How are we supposed to get out then,” Mom asked. I had to think for a minute.

“I got it,” I said. “Luna, are you able to get able to have my parents transferred,” I asked.

“Yes, I should be able to,” she said. She walked out for a few minutes and I acted like I was interrogating my parents as the door opened. After the door closed we went back to talking. Seven minutes later Luna came back and she said “We should be able to leave with them in a minute.” Then a guard came in and told Luna and I to go to the lobby and wait. The lobby was a bit weird. It was dark and there were pictures of some pony on a throne that looked really young. “That is our leader,” Luna said staying in character. Then a guard along with Mom and Dad were walking toward us.

“Are you sure you don’t need an escort,” he asked.

“Yes I’m sure they will not try anything,” she said.

Right when we turned around the warden asked, “by the way, Miss Moon, why didn’t you go to the castle for the get together that the king had.” Luna seemed to be nervous from that question.

“Oh, I was busy that day I kind of forgot,” she said.

“Hm, how sad, well there is just one thing left to do,” he said then he whistled and a couple of guards came and pointed their weapons at us.

“Did you really think we were dumb enough to believe you were Nightmare Moon,” he warden asked. “Dang they found out,” I said. “How long would it take for you to get us out of here, Luna,” I asked. “Only a few minutes, why,” she asked then I drew my sword causing it to shine brightly.

“AHHH, the light,” I heard a guard yell.

“Don’t just stand there get him if we capture him the king will give us a giant raise in our pay,” the warden ordered. One guard had a spear and another had an axe and the other two had swords. The first to attack was the guard with the axe. He lunged at me and did a downward slash but I dodged and I hit his head with the hilt of my sword and he fell to the ground.

The next that attacked me was the one with the spear. He tried to stab me but I dodged it and slashed this side and he went down in pain. The two with the swords attacked. I have to admit they were skilled. They tried to do a cross cut but I jumped back. Obviously they were pros. They both tried a downward slash but I blocked it with my sword.

“Uhhh, not to be pushy but I am getting my flank kicked here Luna,” I said, “are you almost done?”

“Almost, just a few more minutes is all I need,” she said.  Then I pushed the guards against the wall and I used a spell that knocks out whoever it is casted on.

“If you have a job, do it yourself,” the warden said, and he pulled out a long sword. We clashed swords and I heard Luna say, “it’s ready let’s go, Shadow.”  Then I pushed the warden away. He threw something that was headed towards Luna. My body acting on its own and I got in front of her and I felt something sharp go into my shoulder. I fell and then I felt somepony grab me and pull me through the dark mass. We were back in the throne room.. Princess Celestia, Cadence and my parents looked at me in horror. I tried to get up but my shoulder hurt really bad, I put my hoof on it and I looked and there was blood and a knife, everything went dark after that.