The Selene Knights

by EquinoxLiege

Rating: teen
Tags: Adventure, Twilight Sparkle, Gore, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Alternate Universe, Original Character
Length: 5903

Twilight's world gets messed up when she finds herself a main player in another country's civil war.

Ravenelis, a country ruled by strength, half way across the world from Equestria. Constantly in an ever growing civil war, only held together by the royalty's elite guard. The Selene Knights, each member chosen for an unique talent. With twelve members in total, they're nearly unstoppable. With their never ending civil war and with one spot open in the Selene Knights, the country is failing apart. While frantically searching for their new member and trying to keep her country together, Nighting Gale La Selene, captain of the Selene Knights and second in line for the throne of Ravenelis hears of a powerful unicorn living in Equestria. Nighting Gale leaves her country in hopes of recruiting the unicorn to save her family and country.

Twilight Sparkle hadn't ever heard of Ravenelis before, or the Selene Knights when her world is turned upside down when she is attacked by strangers one night in Ponyville. Saved by no other then NIghting Gale! Twilight must soon learn to live in a world where friends can turn foe and foe can turn friends in moments, while learning how to survive her training in The Selene Knights!

Currently looking for prereaders and cover art.

Published 2014-05-11 17:00:03 UTC
Last updated 2015-03-04 02:51:52 UTC

Prologue: Insane or a Sociopath?

Midnight. A time when in most places not much is happening. This city was an exception. Fires lit the night sky as a mare ran through the empty streets. Wind blew her cloak and mane in different directions as pegasi battled above. One side of the battle wore the blue steel of the royal army, the other the brown leather of one of the rebel armys. On the side of the royal army was a pegasus with bright red fur and a pitch black mane. His armor was also different from that of the royal army, it bore the symbol of the royal family marking him as a high ranking officer. That or the fact the he was screaming

"COME AT ME REBELS! I AM GENERAL FLARE BLITZ OF THE SELENE KNIGHT! I WILL SLAY ALL THOSE WHO BETRAY THE THRONE! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Many ponys who see this for the first time mostly think "Oh he must be the odd one out of the Knights! they would never be so undignified!" The truth was that they were all like that. When new recruits to the royal army meet them, ever single one asks they're instructor; "Are they insane or are they all just sociopaths?" The answer is always yes. It was obvious which side was going to be victorious, even though the screaming general did not seem like much he is a Selene Knight, and after his rant ended (that took awhile) he preceded to buck lighting at the bulk of the enemy army. As his lighting caused the enemy to scatter and panic he and his men stormed into their lines, Flare Blitz laughing like a manic. Whacking and Stabbing with his sword Flare Blitz began to cause chaos within enemy lines.

The mare laughed as she ran her destination now in sight, a train station. Just as she was about to run into the station three pegasi landed in a triangle around her. The mare quickly looked at all of them and saw that they wore the leather of the main rebel army. As she wondered what steps to take to get out of the mess she was in, one of the pegasi stepped forward and spoke

"Excuse me Miss, but it seems a little late for a mare like you to be running around, especially with this battle going on over head. I recommended that you leave tomorrow morning after we get rid of the royal army air force." He looked like he expected the mare to agree with him and run along home. One thing for sure he certainly wasn't expecting her to laugh manically, it showed on his face. One of the other pegasi looked confused and said

"Miss are you alrig-" He was then stopped by a blow to his windpipe, that can stop conversation quite quickly. The first pegasi that spoke began to shout

"Miss! what are you doing!?" The mare again began to laugh, not as manically this time though and spoke

"You little boys think you can better Blitz?! He may be a moron but hes not going to lose to you!" She began to laugh again and steped back "Come at me! Ill let you go first!" The third pegasi that hadn't spoken yet gulped said

"Uh miss you hit our friend in the windpipe. You already went firs-" He was stoped by another blow to the windpipe

"NO TALK BACKS GONNA HAPPEN HERE!" The first pegasi spoke again

" Miss the wasn't really talkin-" He got tackled. The mare shouted

"So! Which rebel army are you from!" the stallion gulped

"Uh I can't tell you that." She looked at him with a are you serious face

"Alright then. lets make a deal then" Her smile unnerved him "Ill let you and your friends live! If you tell me which army your from!" She was still smiling when her telekinesis grabbed a sword from under her cloak and put it to one of the other pegasi's throats. The first pegasi who had been hit looked at his comrades, and saw the sword. He began to freak out

"We're the army from Genaisa! Please I don't know much! Please just don't kill us!" he then started to cry. the mare quickly got up grabbed all three pegasi (One still crying) and some rope from her bag and tied them on to a lamppost. She then grabbed a piece of paper and a pen form her bag and began to write

They're from Genaisa, don't kill any officers. QUESTION THEM (I'm looking at you Thunder! Yes there is a difference between torture and questioning.) Hopefully be back in a year or so. Don't die. -Nighting Gale

P.S. Oh yeah might wanna tell my brother I'm leaving. With a shield spell on, so Shield better do it.

P.P.S Have Fun!

P.P.P.S I swear if I come back and some of my stuff is missing I'm gonna beat the crap out of Knives.

She then pined the note to the rebels and walked into the train station. As she looked at the places available for her train ride she began to think out loud

"Hmmm, where does that unicorn live again? Equestria? Oh that's it! Well Twilight Sparkle here I come!" She then looked to the frightened ticket seller, who when he saw her looking at him began to shake

"H-hello Miss what can I do for you?" He ask as she looked back at her options.

"Hmm which port town can I get to in one ride from here?"

"Umm the only port town you can get to in one train ride from here is Lynlis and that is under rebel control." He gulped which caused Nighting Gale to flip out.

"You gulped! What is it with people and gulping when they're scared?! It makes no sense!" She sighed "Whatever just get me a ticket to Lynlis." The stallion nodded nervelessly and handed her a ticket. She looked at it and said "How much does this cost?" The statillion began to shake his head

"Nothing for you Miss please just take the ticket and go" She shrugged and took the ticket

"Whatever!" she said as she board the train.

Chapter One: Traveling sucks

Corian, the capital city of Ravenelis was, like it had been for the past ten years, in ruins. With the constant rebel attacks the crew hired by the royal family was barely able to keep the city from falling apart. In it's prime the city had over 2 million denizens, now it had less then 130 thousand. The majority of citizens had left and made smaller city's near the boarder. At the moment the city was cleaning up the mess left by the rebel raid the night before. General Flare Blitz was watching the clean up crews from the front of the castle. The royal castle of Corian was set upon a hill in the middle of the city that end in a cliff. The front part of the castle ended right at that cliff. Only assessable by pegasi or by going up a very long, and very tall set of stairs. It was at where the set of stairs met that Blitz watched the crews. As he watched two guards flew up to him. They landed behind him, saluted and spoke

"Sir! We found three rebels tied to a lamp post near the train station, there was also a note." The pegasus then took the note out of his satchel. Blitz looked back and tried to grab the note when it was taking right from him right before he could grab it. He noticed the ice blue telekinesis of a familiar unicorn.

          "What do you want Thunder?" He said as he dismissed the soldiers and turned around. Thunder didn't answer until it seemed like he had finished the note.

          "Well I was coming down here to see if you had any prisoners for me, but it seems like this" he said as he turned to the castle "takes preference."

          Blitz sighed "Well I would agree with you if not for the fact that you just took that from me, and so I haven't read it." Blitz began to walk toward the castle, and Thunder soon followed. Thunder laughed

           "It's from our fearless leader, it seems she decided to go through with her plan."

           Blitz returned the laugh "So she off to..? What did Waltz call it? Happy happy Equestrian land?"

           Thunder snorted "Waltz is missing some brain cells, well a lot of brain cells." The pair had almost reached the castle when they both turned and headed around the castle. Will they were walking Thunder handed Blitz the note. Blitz began to read. He had just finished when they reached they're destination, one of the castle towers. It was the largest and tallest of the towers, in almost the very back of the castle. It served as the home and base of the Selene Knights. Thunder opened the door at the base, the two then walked up some stairs and found another door. This one Blitz pushed open and walked in.

             "Note from Gale!" He shouted at the almost empty room. The room was round and went lower as it got to the center. Around the walls there where 13 doors, 12 of them led to the Knights rooms and the one that the duo had come out of was the only one that went down. The room itself was filled with couches, chairs, books, food, armor, and lots of weapons. At Blitz's call 4 other ponies walked, shuffled, (and danced) in to the room.

             "Oh did she finally decide to go to Equestria or wherever?" Asked a tired looking unicorn. He had obsidian fur and a light gray mane.

             "Yes Shield she did." Thunder smiled as he continued. "And she wants you to tell her brother."

Shield whipped around and started at Thunder, his mouth dropping as all but one of the others laughed.

"We'll give you a beautiful funeral!" shouted a still laughing, beige earth pony.

"Oh shut it Knives, you'd be just as scared" said a silver earth pony, who looked very bored.

"OK I know that she needed to go to Equestria or wherever, but she couldn't tell him first?! I don't want to die! You know what?! If I'm doing this Mask has to come with me, that why she can pretend to be me and then he'll have two targets to chase!" As he said this he pointed to the bored silver earth pony. She simple stared at him as he then fell to the ground and started hyperventilating.

"No I'm not doing that, and you do know that if you use a shield spell you'll be fine? Shield spells are your specialty for goodness sake, your name is even has the word shield in it.

"Well what ever with Shields problems! How long does she think she'll be gone?" said a black earth pony with a blood red mane in a sing song voice.

"She said she'll most likely be gone a year or so, so I'm gonna say a year and six months." Thunder said as he watched the black pony bounce around the room.

Mask rolled her eyes "Well hopefully we can hold the country together for that long."

Blitz rolled his eyes "Yeah I have soooo much faith in us. Anyway Where's everyone else? They should be here."

Knives laughed and said "Oh they all ran off after Waltz told them about how that ice cream shop on Twin's stairs street was having a sale."

Shield's head popped up "There's an ice cream sale?!"

***

Nighting Gale's day was not going as planed. First after she had got to Lynlis somepony tried to mug her, he lost a hoof. Then as she made her way to the docks some idiot solider from the rebel army had tried to hit on her, he lost an ear and several brain cells. Concussions do that to ponys, also in hindsight she thought that tying him upside down to the side of a building was most likely not the best idea. The worst of her problems that day was when see got to the docks.

"What do you mean tickets to Equestria costs 200 argendum?!" Yelled a very mad Nighting Gale.

"Well miss there are various stops so you have to pay for those too, also the trip takes around 7 months! You have to pay for the crew being away from their family's for 7 months! There is a reason this trip only happens once every two years!" Yelled a even more mad ticket seller.

"Most people don't make that much in five years! Thats a stupid price!" What she didn't add was the fact that was half her salary for a year. There were perks to being the captain of the countries elite guard, also being second in line for the throne. In all truth the only reason she was arguing with the stallion was to appear more like a normal pony, she was failing at it. Even in this country people don't walk around wear cloaks in broad daylight.

"Well miss are you buying a ticket or not? The boat leaves in an hour." The ticket salespony was not liking this mare.

"Ugh, fine hears your 200 argendum you criminal." She then placed a drawstring bag on the table, the stallion gave her the ticket and then stick his tongue out at her. Gale simply glared at him and walked off to find her boat. The stallion was very pleased with himself, then his stand caught on fire. Gale happily listened to his screams of terror and pain as she walked to board her boat.

As she walked around her boat she found her room and put her things away. She then walked to the front of the boat just as it was leaving. She watch ponies on the docks and the ship wave to each other and cried at loved ones leaving. Gale watched as her thought flowed to her plan for the next year. She then smiled as she noticed some smoke rising in the air.

***

Obsidian Shield was having an even worse day then his commander. His day had started out fine, but then Thunder had told him that Gale wanted him to tell the prince that she had left. Also when his so called friends got ice cream for everyone else but him. At this time Shield was walking toward the BSR or the Battle Strategy Room. The BSR was where all of the plans for the royal army were made, it was also where one could find Prince Lunaris La Selene. The furture king of Ravenelis was not know for his good temper, especially when it came to things his sister did. Like leaving the country and planing to be gone a year and a half. Shield sighed and stop just as he reached the doors to the BSR, he looked back at his Destiny's Sign a obsidian shield engraved with the royal crest of Ravenelis. The one thing he knew for sure was that that shield on his flank wasn't helping him today.

"Well better get this over with." He then gentility pushed one of the doors open.

The BSR was loud and an alive with ponys running around with maps and battle plans. Shield made his way to the middle of the room were he could see the prince. The prince appeared to be in a meeting with the king (his uncle) and a few advisers. As he got closer one of the advisers saw and greeted him.

"Ah! Sir Shield, we were just wondering where the Princess was. Do you know where she is?" Shield looked at him and thought one thing.

'That stallion has no idea whats about to happen.'

Lunaris looked at Shield and simply asked,

'Yes where is my sister?" The Prince looked rather bored, he'll be angry in a minute though.

Shield sighed "Shes gone sir."

Lunaris looked him "Gone?"

Shield nodded "To Equestria sir, she said she'd be back in a year or so."

It was at this point that Shield began to start a shield spell and get ready to run.

The Prince's yell was almost explosive and could be heard although out the castle.

"SHE'S DONE WHAT?!"

Chapter Two: A Sudden Change

Twilight Sparkle day was going great. She was on her way to a picnic with Rainbow, Rarity and Pinky. She didn't have one trouble in the world! With Spike on her back the two chatted about various things as they made they're way to the park. The two arrived at the park, spotted they're friends quickly. As it would be rather hard to miss Pinky Pie jumping up and down with a sign that said "HEY TWILIGHT WE'RE OVER HERE". The picnic soon got underway and the conversation soon reached a rather strange point.

"Hey girls have you ever thought about leaving Equestria?" Twilight said this as she looked down at her sandwich.

"Leave Equestria darling? What for?" Rarity looked at Twilight a little worried. She knew that sometime Twilight could think up and act upon some weird ideas.

"I don't know just to see whats out there, I guess." Twilight sighed. "I mean who knows whats out there? Nineteen out of twenty ponies never leave Equestria, and the ones who do are archeologists. I mean there are so many countries out there, some ponies have written books about them. I just really want to see whats out there!"

Rainbow looked at her; a little interested "Going out of the county would be interesting, but why are you think about this now? You have all of this stuff going on!"

Twilight chuckled "Rainbow I don't actually have much going on right now."

Pinky munched on a cupcake "Then why have you been holed up in your library? You've only left it four times this week!"

Twilight briefly questioned how Pinky knew that but put it away. "I've been looking at books about other countries, theirs a lot of interesting stuff about Equestria that I didn't know. They're been a lot more wars in Equestria or wars that Equestria fought in then I knew. The weird part about them is that they're not mentioned in Equestria's history books! Its all in other countries' history books! Twilight threw her hooves in the air. "I just don't get it!"

"Okay Twilight seriously, what brought this on? You haven't spoken about it at all before?" Spike looked the most confused out of everypony.

Twilight fidgeted with her hooves. "I don't really know, I guess it's just because I think it's fascinating." Twilight's voice picked up at the end of her sentence

Pinkie giggled "Well Twilight I'm sure you'll have a lot of funny with Waltz and all of them!" She then garbed some cupcakes from thin air and offered then to her fiends.

Twilight smiled "Yeah I'm sure I wil-" Twilight then paused and looked confused "Wait. Who's Waltz?" Rainbow, Rarity, and Spike looked at Pinkie in confusion.

"Oh hes my really good friend! We're super duper a like!" Pinkie Bounced up from her spot. "Well any why I better go! See you girls later!" She then gave Spike a cupcake and bounced off humming. Rarity look at Twilight, Rainbow, and Spike.

"It's better not to question it darlings. You both know who she can be." Twilight and Rainbow nodded while Spike munched on his cupcake. The girls and dragon said their goodbyes and all went on their merry way home.

***Later that night

Twilight yawned, Spike was already asleep as he should be saying that it was around midnight. Twilight looked around the library, she closed her book and put it in it's proper place. She was a bout to walk up the bed when she heard a knock on her door.

Who could It be at this hour?

Twilight walk to the door, she couldn't see anything out side the window. She slowly opened the door. No one was outside her door. She took a few steps forward.

How strange, I wonder if this is just a prank or somethi-

A bag was thrown over Twilight's head.

NOT A PRANK NOT A PRANK

Twilight struggled as she was tied up, but she soon realized that these ponies were much stronger then her.

Think Twilight think! Wait! No calm down, yes calm down. Now think. OK so I'm being foalnapped as far as I can tell. I need to preserve my energy, that way I have a better chance later. Wait, they just foalnapped me in front of my house! Somepony should have seen it! Except It's almost midnight. Good job Twilight, shut up Twilight.

As Twilight was talking to herself her foalnappers talked to each other.

"Are we sure it's her? If we get this wrong we're dead."

"Of course it's her! She matches the description perfectly! Purple pony who live in the Ponyville library. No other purple pony lives in the Ponyville library."

"Yeah but a purple dragon does!"

"And people wonder why I say I'm genius of the group."

At this point Twilight at stopped talking to herself and started listening to the ponies.

"You know we probably look suspicious right now, Also we're in the middle of town. With a body bag, that obviously has a body in it."

".... I retract the statement about being smarter then you."

"Thank you. You want is the plan anyway, all you told me was that we were foalnapping somepony."

"We're taking her to Cyis."

"Cyis?! That's all the way back home in Ravenelis! And it's the many camp for the rebels! That journey will take over six months! Are you telling me we have to take care of her for six months?! She could teleport away!"

Twilight now remembered she could teleport.

Oh wow I am stupid.

Her new 'friends' kept talking.

"That's why we put a magic inhibitor on that bag you idiot!"

So that's why I can use magic.

"I feel like she's mocking me from inside the bag."

I am

"She should be."

"Jerk, anyway what does the rebel army want with her?"

"They want to get to her before the Selene Knights do."

"Wait the Selene Knights want her?! How good is she?"

"I don't know exactly but- what was that?"

"What was wha-"

Twilight then heard one of her new friends go flying.

*snap*

What was that? It came in the direction of the one that went flying.

The last foalnapper dropped Twilight's bag.

Jerk

He started to scream.

"Please no! I'm sorry! We were just doing It for the money! I'm not a rebel! Don't hurt me!"

Who has him so scared?

The newcomer spoke.

"I don't care, do you hear me? I-don't-care. All I care about is the fact that you just made what I came here to do harder, well now that I think about it you made it easier. So thank you"

The voice is feminine so it's a mare, It doesn't sound like anyone I know though.

"Um, your welcome?"

"Apology accepted."

"I wasn't apologizin-"

Another snap.

What are those? Who is she?

Twilight could hear the sound of the mare's hooves as she walked toward her.

"We'll talk later, but for now Sleep"

A sleep spell? And who are yo-

Twilight's head hit the ground as she fell asleep.

Chapter Three: Stop making Sense!

Twilight could feel the train around her moving.

What? Why am I on a train? Wasn't I at hom- oh yeah I got foalnapped. Great day yesterday, just fantastic. Let's see I got saved by someone, and they put me on this train? Okay maybe opening my eyes is a good idea now.

When Twilight opened her eyes she at first saw only the chair in front of her, then she looked to her right. A mare was sitting next to her. Twilight got a good look at the mare. She had a deep navy blue coat, almost black. She was a unicorn about the same size as Twilight but maybe a little taller. Her eyes were a light blue, like Pinkie's. Her mane and tail were short and a light blue.

She is really blue. Also shes reading, that's a good sign.

The mare spoke with out looking away from her book, "So your awake now."

Twilight nodded, "Yes, also where are we going."

The mare looked up, "I expected you to be a little more, freaked out I guess."

"Give it a minute, anyway again same question. Where are we going?"

"Manehattan."

"Why Manehattan? Wait why are we going any where? I don't even know who you are! Why are you taking me from Ponyville? What do you want?"

And theres the freaking out.

The mare watched Twilight with an amused expression as she ranted. She spoke again when Twilight stopped to take a breath. "Manhattan, because it's a port town. My name is Nighting Gale, and I want your help Twilight Sparkle."

"My help? Why? Also you only answered three of my questions! And why do you want to take me to a port town?"

The Nighting Gale rolled her eyes, " Because you can help, why else? Also because we need a boat."

"What do you mean I can help you? You are very infuriating, now answer the other questions! Also take me back to Ponyville my friends are going to be worried! Also we've used also to many times in this conversation!"

The Nighting Gale smiled, "I am going to use also more just to spite you.I am taking you away from Ponyville because I need your help and for your friends."

Twilight was confused, "For my friends? How will me leaving help them?"

Nighting Gale looked right into Twilight's eyes, "Because last night trained foalnappers came after you, and if you didn't leave Ponyville they would have kept coming. Which would have put your friends in a lot of danger."

Twilight stammered, "But that doesn't explain why your taking me, also how do I know your not somepony here to foalnap me?!"

Nighting Gale grinned, "Because if I was you would be in a magic sealed bag in the cargo hold."

Twilight yelled, "STOP MAKING SENSE!"

***

Ponyville was having a nice cloud free day, thanks to the weather team. The town's six heroes were meeting at Sugarcube Corner today for a weekly meet-up. The five already there were chatting  about the whereabouts of the sixth.

"Well I say shes absorbed in some idea of hers and we need to go grab her." said the rainbow maned one.

"ABSORBED?! WHAT IF SHES IN ANOTHER WORLD?! WE NEED TO SAVE HER!" The pink one shot up.

"Pinkie dear I'm sure shes fine, we saw her yesterday." Said the marshmallow.

"I'm with Rares on this one, y'all saw her yesterday and Spike would tell us if somethin happened." Said the apple apple farmer.

"Calm down Pinkie it's Twilight see mostly likely forgot what time it was." said the soft spoken yellow one.

"Well I guess you girls are right I'm sure shes fine!" The pink one clapped her hooves.

Then Spike ran in, "Have you girls seen Twilight? She wasn't home when I woke up! And I've looked all over town!"

Then a pony ran throughout the streets outside, "SOMEPONY FOUND TWO BODIES ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN!"

Six thoughts ran through six different minds.

Oh crap today is just a bad day

Oh dear

That's not good

That's bad! I hope it get to throw their funerals thought! I'll give them the best one ever!

I'll destroy who ever did this!

Oh my

Then Fluttershy fainted.

Chapter Four: On Our Way

The train had finally gotten to Manehattan, and Twilight's day was getting worse and worse.

"Oh come on, at least tell me where we're going!"

Nighting Gale sighed, "For the sixtieth time, I will tell you when we get on the boat."

"I'm not getting on any boat till you tell me where we're going and why you need me!"

The pair continued to argue as they walked out of the train station and as they called a taxi to the pier.

"Can I tell my friends and family that I'm going somewhere?"

"Do you want to endanger them?"

"No."

"Then there's your answer!'

"Nighting Gale you are one of the most stubborn and lest helpful ponies I have ever meet."

"One, just call me Gale. Two, I take that as a complement."

The taxi pulled into the drop off zone for the pier and the two left, much to their drivers happiness as he's ears had started to bleed. The pier was unfamiliar to Twilight so she let Gale take the led and followed her absentmindedly.

Why in the world am I still following her? She won't tell me anything, but I'm following her anyway. Oh just accept it Twilight. I'm excited. Gale is diffidently taking me out of the country. I was just talking about going out of the country! I am worried for my friends though. Also why did those assassins attck me in the first place? I bet Gale knows, but she won't tell me anything will she?

Gale's voice broke Twilight out of her thoughts, "We're here."

Twilight looked around, they were all the way at the end of the pier. This part of the pier was unkempt and dirty. A sign was above a small stand, It read Over Sea's Travel in faded out letters. There were two ships docked, one was small and looked like it could only hold six or seven ponies. The other was large, so large that it was the largest boat Twilight had ever seen.

"In the name of Celestia, that is a big boat!" From what Twilight could see the boat looked like it could hold several hundred ponies, at least.

Gale looked over, "It's called a curse liner, I'm surprised you've never seen one." While Twilight marveled at the boat Gale walked over to the board leading up to the boat. She looked back at Twilight, "Well are you coming?"

Twilight stopped looking at the boat and turned to Gale, her thought running rampant.

This is my last chance, and mostly likely the biggest decision of my life. I can follow Gale to the world or return to my cushy life, friends, and family.

Twilight looked back one last time, before turning back to Gale and started to walk.

"I'm coming."

I guess I'm not that good of a friend after all.

Twilight followed Gale on to the boat, not looking back once. The pair sat on the deck, not speaking one word. They watched the boat leave the dock, and Equestria fade away.

Gale broke the long silence, "To answer your question we're going to Ravenelis, a country half way across the world. It'll take around six months to get there. And as for why I need you, Twilight I would ask you to help save my country." As she spoke she turned to Twilight, who was watching ponies around the deck. Gale turned again and looked forward, "I know this will be a hard dissection for you, but I would do anything to save my count-"

"I'll do it."

Gale's head snapped around, "But you don't even really know what I'm asking yet! I know you equestrians are soft, you might have to kill if you help me!"

Twilight's eyes turned to meet Gale's and to Gale's surprise her eyes were filled with a ferrous determination.

" Your right, I have no idea whats waiting for me in Ravenelis. But I have this feeling, this strange felling that I need to do this! So Gale I will help you, after all I just left my home, friends, and family for someone I just meet. With barely a second thought. I'm currently have thoughts about what I really want in life."

Twilight turned away again, staring at the carefree ponies. Gale watched her for a bit longer, before shaking her head and looking away.

Looks like I found our savior brother. I'm coming.

The citizens of Ponyville were currently flipping out as it were. After all It was a peaceful town and one didn't find dead bodies often in a peaceful city. It was so strange that Princess Celestia had shown up, and was currently taking to the element bearers, tucked away in a corner in Sugar Cube Corner. Celestia was also currently massaging a headache.

"So Twilight is missing, there are two dead bodies of ponies that are differently not my subjects in the hospital morgue, and half the town is still passed out."

A rainbow blur snapped into Celestia's face, "Hey Princess! You don't think those goons did anything to Twilight do you!" Rainbow Dash was currently acting tough but was just as worried as any of her friends.

Celestia shook her head, "I doubt it, or else they woundn't be dead."

AppleJack popped up, "Princess, you don't think Twi did that to those no good goons do ya?!"

Celestia's eyes widened, "Oh no AppleJack not at all, these ponies had their neck's snapped. There is no way Twilight did this, I believe there was a third party present."

Futtershy attempted to slide under the table more then she already was, "Oh my."

Pinkie popped up next to her, "WHO SAID PARTY?!" Pinkie seemed to be the least worried out of all her friends.

Rarity looked confused, "Pinkie how are you so calm? Twilight could be in danger and those poor ponies where killed in a most gruesome way!"

All the heads at the table, including the Princess nodded and looked at Pinkie.

Pinkie looked Rarity right in the eyes and said, "Believe me Rarity, Twilights fine. I can feel it."

The whole group relaxed at those words, all having need some reassurance. Unbeknownst to them, Twilight was sailing away at that very moment.

RavenelisOne year after Gale's departure.

"You know sometimes I hate the captain. It just happens sometimes."

"I think we've all been there."

"I agree with Shield, did she really have to leave in the middle of a war?"

"Misty, thats the point."

"To leave us to deal with three different rebel armies?"

"No, to get help. If not that unicorn, then to ask Equestrian for help."

"Why would they help us?"

"Because they have an immortal goddess who cares about every living thing on the planet as their ruler?"

"Wow Icarus, you do have a brain somewhere in there!"

"Diamascus I will rip your tongue from your throat."

"Thats nice."

"Hey guys what do you think would happen if I stole Blitz's wing blades?"

"Fire, lots of fire."

"Go steal the rebels stuff if you want to steal something."

"But thats to easy."

"Knives you have problems."

"Sorry who am I talking to?"

"Knives so help m-"

"Knives, Dia, Icarus, Shield, Misty, the tartarus are you doing?"

"Um, playing poker?"

"On top of the tower? How did Dia and Knives even get up here?"

"How did a pegasus get to be the leader of the Magic Division?"

"Touché"

"Now go away, or join the game."

"... Deal me in."