The Tale of Isla Nova

P.A.T.H.

Solar and Lunar looked around confused.

“There’s nothing here…” Lunar stated. “Maybe that Suppression Beam actually did something to you, Silence.”

Silence smirked as he approached the fireplace and a small plank in the floor slid open as the last rays of sunlight slipped under the horizon.  Solar and Lunar Blitz gasped; they hadn’t expected such a small hovel to have any form of Tech. New Ponyville’s denizens had little more than torches to light their homes, much less piston mechanisms to allow access to usually closed areas.

Silence walked to the hole in the floor and jumped down into the corridor below, where he yelled for the others to join him. They saw an iron door down the dimly lit hallway, a few beams of light shining through its cracks, making visible the dust that hovered in the air of the old hidden space. Silence pushed it open and held it for the twins to go inside. Then he slinked right on into the large brightly lit room. Solar and Lunar almost seemed relieved; the floor of the room was carpeted in crimson red and the ceiling was dotted in lights. Three doors covered the wall opposite to the entrance, which had signs labeling their apparent uses: The far left was used as a bedroom, which was proven tenfold as Lunar stepped into it and spotted nine large beds inside of a completely black carpeted room. The ceiling of it was dotted with a few fake clouds and a single light intended to look like a moon. There were paintings of familiar faces on the walls (which neither of the two Blitz brothers could identify) that surrounded the dark room.

Solar proceeded to the next room which was identified as a Storage room. It was filled with Crates and Chests that lined the walls and several anvils and furnaces that were to be used in crafting what could only be assumed as weapons.  It was completely covered in glass lights on its walls. Solar called Lunar out of the bedroom to see the next room: the library. The walls were a beautifully tinged blue and a faint noise emitted from flowing water could be heard inside. A few bookcases were lined up and stacked in the middle of the room, with a table in between all of them that had a book on it. It opened as Solar approached it. He read a few lines from it and recognized it as Ancient.

“This table is for Enchantment, isn’t it?” He asked. Silence only nodded in response. Lunar walked over to one of the two tables that held brewing stands and picked a random vial and poured it into another. The resulting fume knocked him flat out. Silence left the room, carrying the unconscious unicorn on his back and placed him into one of the beds. When he got back, Solar literally had his face in a book.

“What could you have possibly found that’s so interesting as to cause you to indent your muzzle into my book?” Silence asked annoyed.

“It’s an old copy of TIME Magazine, what do you think?” Solar said sarcastically holding up the book; its cover read ‘History of Old Equestria’. Silence walked away shaking his head and muttering something about ‘Twilight Sparkle’.

“What?” Solar asked only to have the door slammed in front of him.

Silence plodded upstairs into the cabin, watching out the window until he fell asleep and awoke the next morning.

Revelations

Silence dropped down into the basement for the second time in the last thirty minutes and tried to wake the unicorns who, ironically, would not rise when the sun did. Silence cracked the library door open, only to find Solar Blitz with his face STILL in the book, except this time his eyes were CLOSED.

Silence hoofed Solar in the shoulder blade until he woke up. Apparently, the vision of a dark Pegasus silhouette terrified Solar into throwing his book into Silence. Silence ignored this stupidity on Solar’s part and took him into the main room, after having awoken the stubborn Dark Mage from his bed.

“OKAY, everypony, get ready for a bit of… a revelation.”

“A revelation?” Solar replied, questioning Silence. Silence again ignored this stupidity on Solar’s part.

Silence started his story off.

“Thirty-three years, two months, seventeen days, four hours, twelve minutes and thirty…SEVEN… seconds ago, the menace Nightmare Moon successfully took over the once great Equestria and banished the spirits of Solaris and Celestia from their bodies.”

“Yeah, yeah, we know the story…” Lunar interrupted.

“Speaking of which, unless the birth records I obtained are wrong, before me stand the hated children of gods...” Silence stated.

“So you know… Yes, we are the children of Solaris AND Luna.”  Solar responded, spitting 'Luna' like it was poison.

“Indeed… Well, welcome to the party.”

Silence continued his story.

“Soon, Nightmare Moon built what is known today as The Four Cities. New Ponyville: the trading capital, Polis Nefili: the Weather city, Argatha: The mining establishment and Nesseriok: Our personal weapons supply, speaking of which…” Silence walked over to the far wall, and pulled a lever hidden in the floor. Suddenly two sections of the wall pulled down to reveal a container. Silence opened the unit and revealed several bows, quivers of arrows, and body armor.

“We have the weapons, the resources and the knowledge, now we just need ponies brave enough to use them.”

Silence continued again.

“I… I ran away from my home when I was five years old, a mere colt at the time. I’ve vowed to kill Nightmare Moon and restore Equestria to its former glory, no matter the cost. Because of all of the injustice that she forced upon her followers and her victims she must die.”

He lied, then stared off into the open room, his subconscious slipping into the air.