A New Lord of Chaos

Fluttershy had never been more nervous. The stallion she had been enjoying the gala with was some sort of shape shifting monster. It had come from nowhere he had been polite to her the whole evening never pushing her into anything. How could things have turned out so badly?

She felt some one shaking her trying to get her attention.

She groaned and the shaking paused for a moment before a voice joined it.

“Fluttershy, come on wake up we need you.” The anxiety in the voice made Fluttershy panic a little and her adrenaline spiked a little waking her quickly.

Her eyes shot open revealing she was resting on the ground in a deserted hall with her friends all around her looking afraid.
“What happened?” She asked in a quiet voice.

Pinkie darted in front of her face and in one long run on that sounded like one word said. “That stallion you were with wasn’t really a pony. He was this freaky magic thingy. After you passed out he transformed it to this big ape thingamabob. It was super freaky and looked really painful. Then he used magic to bring Applejack here and told us every evil thing he did this week. Now we have to go save the princess, Rainbow Dash, and get the elements of harmony back from that big meanie.”

Fluttershy blinked several times before saying. “Oh, my.” This in Fluttershyese was the equivalent of swearing. “Where did he go?”

Twilight shook her head and said. “Before he left he said he gave you our invitation. Your mane was glowing.”

This made something click in Fluttershy’s mind as she reached a hoof up into her mane and pulled out the card he had given her.

Twilight saw this and used her magic to pull the card away from her. It was half way between them when it gave off a flash of silver light. It began floating in midair spinning slowly. The five of them could only watch in fascinated horror as the card began changing right before their eyes.

The silver triskele began uncurling until it had forced the black border onto the reverse side of the card. Now what had been the front was blank and the reverse had a double border black outlined with silver. Then the black ink began drawing itself into the center. When it had formed a solid dot in the middle of the card an arrow sprang out of the center.

The card fell to the ground with the arrow facing up and they watched as the arrow turned a darker black. Then the whole of the emblem move rotating like a compass so that it pointed in a new direction.

Four of them looked on as Twilight slowly drew the card off the floor with her magic. As she lifted the card the arrow did its best to stay focused in that on direction.

“He gave us a compass?” Applejack asked.

Twilight nodded in confirmation. “Looks like it’s pointing either towards Ponyville or Dodge Junction from here.”

“Very good. You caught on quick.”

“Who said that? Where are you? Are we playing hide and seek?” Pinkie began questioning the voice.

“Yes we are. I’ve hidden and you are all seeking. I will allow six ponies to come and play, but sadly only five of you are listening. Go get a sixth player for our game.”

This seemed to stun them. They began looking at each other the question clear in their eyes. ‘Who do we ask?’

“Twilight, dear perhaps we should inform Luna about everything we have discovered.” Rarity put the suggestion forward very simply in a well hidden but nervous tone.

“Rarity’s right about that there Twilight. We should tell Luna seeing as how this involves her sister princess Celestia.”

She sighed and nodded her head. “Come on then she should be with the guard captains.”

Twilight lead her friends out of the room which had been the source of anger, horror, and so many other conflicting emotions. They quickly reached the main hall. Upon entering it became obvious Luna was here and she was clearly upset.

“We care not how long thou think it will take we demand results captain.” When Luna was upset no being could mistake her for anypony else.

With the echoes of Luna’s use of the royal Canterlot voice, still ringing in both their ears and the hall The five of them approached Luna.

As they drew near to her she turned and addressed them. “Yes, *Cough* sorry. Yes girls, what is it you need?”

“Your highness, we have information regarding the being who abducted princess Celestia.” Rarity began.

Twilight cut her off gently. “May we discuss this with you in private.” Her eyes were scanning the hall they stood in looking for anything out of the ordinary.

Luna looked over the girls. Each one seemed either disturbed, suspicious, or angry, and poor Fluttershy looked to be on the verge of crying. Seeing this Luna nodded and said. “Follow me.”

She lead them out of the main hall and into a corridor. Three quick turns later she paused long enough to open a door and lead them all into a drawing room. When they had all entered she shut the door.

As soon as she had closed it, Twilight began explaining the events of the past several hours concluding with. “Princess, it appears that your sister was taken as part of a game by a yet unnamed enemy. Who confessed to not only taking princess Celestia, but also claims responsibility for stealing the elements of harmony. He also claimed to have abducted Rainbow Dash.”

Luna rubbed her chin with a hoof before saying. “This is grave news indeed Twilight. Do we have any leads?”

“Yes princess, before he vanished he left a card and told us to come at our discretion. In examining the card we tripped some sort of magical transformation. Now the ink on the card appears to acting as some sort of compass. Then a voice told us we would be playing a game and we needed another player.” She placed the card on a table in front of Luna.

As soon as Luna began using her magic to examine the card the voice returned. “Welcome to the game player six.”

They all blinked at this. They had not thought that this would happen.