S.T.I.A.D.L: Future problems and past solutions

~~~3 days later~ ~Canterlot~~~

Just as the sun was rising over the capitol city a group of dragons launched an attack on the city. They burned buildings and were slowly making their way to the castle. Even with both Celestia and Luna fighting with the royal guard the battle wasn’t easy. Every dragon that was injured fled to the top of the mountain and after hours of fighting there were countless injuries but no fatalities on either side.

The Princesses followed the dragons to try and find their base but surprisingly all the dragons in the attack were hiding on the other side of the mountain. There was one dragon smaller than the rest that appeared to be leading them. Their leader was no bigger than a normal pony and was wearing black and gold armor that hid every portion of his body.

The only thing that wasn’t hidden was his eyes but as soon as it spotted the Princesses making their charge on his small army, they vanished. The sound of wing beats slowly disappeared shortly after but in an instant the entire dragon army had completely vanished. Celestia and Luna had no choice but to return to Canterlot and wait for their next move.

~~~~2 days ago~ ~Shade’s POV~~~~~

Talking to Rainbow Dash was very tiring since I was using a projection of my body to cast it. I still have to be careful while using it since I can feel anything that it feels. I’m normally nearby so my real senses can pick up the entire conversation but this time I had to create a nearly perfect link to keep my real body safe. I wanted to stay away from her since she could kill me easily but it was an enormous drain on my magic.

I woke up as the sun rose when I noticed that I’d slept through the entire day after speaking with her. She didn’t seem evil and if the guardians trusted her enough to teach her to control her power than so should I. I looked around the cave a little before I left to catch my next meal. This world isn’t very friendly to carnivores and on top of that most of my normal meals were now sentient and thus I won’t kill them.

Killing sentient races is against the code of dragons and my own moral code so I would never consider them an easy meal. I decided to walk to the lake where I catch some fish for food but as soon as I saw another dragon I knew it was going to be a while. The dragon was about the size of the Guardians that my former master, Cynder had captured but this one had white scales.

  “So you finally made it young dragon,” he said shortly after I noticed him.

  “I wasn’t aware I had an appointment with you,” I replied while getting ready to attack just in case.

  “I have an important assignment for you. It will take you about a month to complete but where are my manners, I am known to dragon kind as the Protector. I know your name young dragon is Shade the only apprentice Cynder has ever had,” he informed me.

I hated to admit it but he definitely had my attention and something told me he was telling the truth. The part I hated admitting was the fact that with those few sentences I was ready to complete his task. The two of us talked a bit before he spread his wings, I noticed his membrane was a light blue and both of them had a large amount of scars from battle.

I was definitely not happy to go about his task but again something was telling me to carry it out. I went to my usual lake to catch some fish before I left to complete my mission. It only took me a few minutes to eat my catch and be ready for my mission. The only thing left to do was take my necklace off revealing my dragon form and hiding the necklace in a nearby tree. I shook my head a few times before opening my wings and flying over Ponyville for the last time heading towards Canterlot.

~~~~Present Day~ ~Midnight’s POV~~~~

Living in the void was really strange since there was no time yet the hive continues to age. We had to create day and night since there is no sun or moon. Our daily cycle is really simple since we have street lights powered by magic. We brighten the lights from east to west to give us the feel of the sun raising overhead. We decided night would be the time that we got tired so it isn’t exact but close enough.

Right now the lights are brightest in the east so it’s early in the mourning about an hour after sunrise. Now that Spyro and Cynder have showed up it was nearly time for phase two of Plan Eclipse. I walked up to our King and started informing him of my preparations to solve this problem. This was always going to be the most annoying part of the plan but it was our best plan.

  “Crimson, it’s finally time for phase two,” I finished.

  “Well this is a very intricate plan you created. I don’t have much say in the plan now but I would have agreed anyway. Carry out phase two before you finish dying,” he declared.

  “One final question, did you ever suspect?” I asked and he just smiled.

  “You almost always sleep, ate more than usual, and yet you continued to weaken each and every day. If anything this explains everything,” he informed me.

It was finally time to continue my plan so I moved to the most secure part of the hive. Inside had a few runes and a single sword creating the shield keeping us alive. I moved next to the sword and sat down before closing my eyes and started carrying out phase two. My spell created an enormous gust of wind and made the world around me spin and twirl before finally disappearing.