The Rising of the Brothers of Light and Dark

Twister turned and looked to the gathered troops. “Pegasi take to the air, surround the castle from the sky and kill anypony that is not gathered here! I want you Crystal Heavy Knights and three unicorns to follow me!” She turned and glared at the castle with fury “It’s time to get our Princes and Princesses back!”

All those present saluted shouting “Yes Ma’am!”

“Then move out!” Twister bolted for the castle with the ordered troops fast on her hooves. Once they were by the castle wall they saw their way in. A dark corridor that looks like it ran the length of the castle wall. “I want two heavy knights up front with a unicorn close behind using a light spell, the rest of you fall in!”

As they began to move into the castle the stale, dank air made them gag the deeper they went. Once they reached the end of the first wall they turned to move down the second wall. All they could smell was mold. Besides the dark corridor in front and behind them, all they could see was the slimy moss growing out of the cracks in the old castle walls. Soon they came to a door and opened it to find it opened into the courtyard then they continued down the corridor. After continuing down the corridor they came to a winding staircase.

They began the slow descent into the dark of the castles lower section. Once at the bottom they could see they were in some sort of dungeon. Small torches burned on the wall and they could her talking in the back. “Hurry and get those kids I want to be gone before somepony comes looking!”

Twister pushed past her troops and broke for the back of the dungeon. After the shock of their commander rushing past them the troops gave chase. They saw Nightshade, a small colt and some troops standing by a tunnel that opened into the dungeon. Three of his troops were trying to open a great steel door. “Father who are they!” The colt was pulling on Nightshade's robes while pointing at Twister and her approaching troops.

“Damn! Once you three get that door open kill the brats. The rest of us are leaving!” Nightshade and his troops moved into the tunnel. Once they were inside Nightshade pulled a lever and the wall began to move blocking the tunnel entrance.

Before Twister could get to the great steel door Nightshade’s troops got in and shut it. Plus the wall was now covering the tunnel Nightshade himself fled down. “All right I want you unicorns to….” Twister was cut short by dying screams and the sound of fighting. She then took a step back as something wet touched her hooves. It was blood, thick and red began to run out from under the door.

Thinking the worst she began to beat the door while the others did what they could to try and open it as the screaming continued. Twister was about to slam her hooves on the door again and stopped just before they hit. Her ears twitched back and forth but she couldn’t hear anything, the screaming had stopped. She and her troops stepped back as the door began to slowly open it was one of Nightshade’s troops and he was covered in blood and had a look of absolute terror plastered on his muzzle. He was looking into the dark of the room “Please don’t kill me! I was just following orders! Please I..I don’t want to die!” The stallion began to cry as he looked into the dark.

Then a dark evil laughing could be heard coming from the dark. The stallion quickly turned and tried to run away but was dragged back into the room. Twister Stepped forward and tried to see what was going on only to be covered by a huge spurt of blood as a stallion screamed. She quickly wiped the blood from her eyes to see the stallion hit the floor wheezing and coughing blood. His body jerking around like it was being pulled at.

Once the stallion drew his last breath twister looked up to see two blood red, soulless eyes staring at her. Just looking into those eye made her shake with fear but what scared her most was the blood dripping from its fangs. “If you are here to hurt the little ones I would run before I make a snack of you too!”

Twister mustered what courage she could before this bloody, fanged smile and soulless eyes. “I’m here to get them out. We are their servants.”

After a few heart pounding moments “Very well, enter.” was the last thing she heard before the torches in the room relit and what ever had those eyes just vanished.

The sight before them was gruesome, Nightshade’s three ponies lay on the floor dead. Their throats were ripped to shreds and their guts were spilt all over the floor. In each case their chest was ripped open and their heart was gone. There was so much blood all over the place Twister had to force herself not to throw up at the sight before her. Though her troops failed to do the same.

Twister and what few ponies were done puking walked through the mess to the back. There they found the Princes and the Princesses chained to the wall. Just from looking at them She could tell they had been beaten badly. “Lets get them out of here.”

“Twister is that you?” The Prince was looking up at her through his one good eye.

“Yes Prince Swiftwind It’s me.” The colt tried to say something but past out before he could. “Get these chains off them now!”

One of the unicorns quickly undid the locks and place all the unconscious Princes and Princesses on the back of somepony to be carried out of the castle. Twister and her troops quickly rushed them to the medic tent and were kicked out by the head medic. Almost an hour and a half later he came out. “How are they Doctor?” Rune had a deep look of concern about him.

“They have been better. Swiftwind has a broken wing and three broken ribs. The wing was easy to fix but it will be some time before he is flying anywhere. He also has a very swollen right eye, but from what I can tell his eye should be fine and the swelling should be gone by morning. Violet has two broken ribs and her front right leg is broken was well. Starlight had a dislocated shoulder and a crack going down her horn. I was able to fix her horn but till we be quite some time before she is doing magic again. As for Soul Stone I am afraid he had it much worse than the little ones. His left eye is swollen shut but should be fine by tomorrow. His jaw, left shoulder and right hip were all dislocated. Both is back legs were broken along with seven ribs. He had two shallow stab wounds. Also in all cases they had cuts and bruises from being whipped, plus a patch of missing skin. They were all dehydrated and need something to eat as soon as they wake.” The Doctor stopped took a breath and looked to all very seriously. “Furthermore Soul Stone came to and after telling him what was wrong with him, he ordered me to use a very dangerous spell on him. At the cost of great physical pain I forcibly accelerated the healing of all his bones. He will be fine but very sore.”

After that the Doctor walked back into the tent. Everypony there was furious at what they had been told. Then one of the Crystal Heavy Knights walked up. “What do we do now sir?”

Rune jerked his head up to meet the gaze of the mare. “As I said before we will wait and do as the Princes and Princesses say. Until then I want ten ponies on watch all night Switch out every four hours! Is that clear!”

All the troops saluted “Sir Yes, Sir!” Arcane Bolt and Rune walked back into the Medic tent as Twister and nine others took the first watch.