Author's Note

This chapter is most certainly devoted to watermane2000, who motivated me to continue this story! Thank you 'brother!' Everyone should definitely go check out his User Page and story...I forget what it's called...well now I fell bad. Anyways go check him out. He helped me out, and he deserves more followers than he has. I wrote this in like two hours, so thanks again. Love to game with ya sometime.

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Chapter 15

Chapter 15 - Never The Same

Twilight laid in her bed. The last two days had been something of a fairy tale. Luna was in hiding, along with Solar Eclipse, and both alicorns were now residing in the Golden Oaks Library. Spike was going nuts without his occasional privacy, and decided to go camping for a week with the Cutie Mark Crusaders in their clubhouse.

It had been difficult trying to find a suitable space for them to live within the tree. Even though the entire town of Ponyville supported the group of refugees, the Royal Guard that had been positioned in the quiet country town, still poked about with wary eyes.

Miss Cheerilee had volunteered to be the new librarian, giving that she could quit her job, as there were a plethora of teachers in Equestria. The little school fillies and colts were very understanding in the matter, as they too supported the 'Ponyville Refugees.'

Twilight tossed and turned in her bed, unable to sleep. Luna had to share the bed with her, and even though most of the time Luna slept during the day. When Luna did sleep at night, having two alicorns in a bed made for one pony, was not all too comfortable.

Solar Eclipse had it slightly easier. He slept on an air mattress, that sat on the floor on the opposite end of Twilight's bedroom. However, he snored outrageously loud. How Luna slept at all was beyond Twilight.

It didn't make much difference as to whether she was going to sleep that night or not, because a loud crash, and the sound of glass hitting the floor downstairs, got her attention rather quickly.

"TWILIGHT, WHERE ARE YOU?!"

Twilight groaned and sat up in bed. "Why does everypony come to me with their problems." She rubbed her eyes with her hoof.

Twilight only became more frustrated when she hear the continuous sound of furniture being knocked over, and what sounded like somepony cutting down a tree. Now beyond annoyed, Twilight drug herself out of bed, and trudged over to the doorway that led downstairs.

She gripped the handle with her magic, and flung the door open, only to be greated by the face of Rainbow Dash, dropping to the stairs, dodging a flying dagger. The same dagger that was now soaring directly for Twilight's face.

Twilight screamed, and dodged to the right as quickly as she could. The dagger flew past, only being able to cut a few hairs from Twilight's mane and fur. The dagger then proceeded to fly through the room behind her, and lodge itself into a wooden bookshelf with a thud.

This noise woke up Luna who searched around the room, intent on finding what disturbed her slumber. Her eyes fell upon Twilight, who was looking down the stairs, eyes wide, and mouth gapping.

Luna jumped out of bed, and galloped to Twilight's side. Before she could make a good observation of the surroundings downstairs, she was toppled over by a rainbow-maned pegasus.

Rainbow Dash had knocked Luna over onto her back, and was lying on top of her, their muzzles inches apart. Luna opened her eyes at the same time as Rainbow Dash, and the both blushed furiously.

Their demeanor changed when Fluttershy flew past them, and into the darkened bedroom, in search of her tool of death.

Rainbow Dash spoke first. "We can't let her find her dagger!" She picked herself up, and flew into the room.

"What is going on here?" Luna asked, righting herself, and standing up.

Twilight simply continued to look around in pure shock at her destroyed library, completely unaware of the violent murderer inside her home.

"She's trying to kill me!" Rainbow Dash shouted, tackling Fluttershy as she attempted to reach for her dagger.

This news snapped Twilight out of her hypnosis, and she turned around to see the two pegasi wrestling for dominance on the floor.

Twilight decided to do the smarter thing, and turn on the lights in the room. Doing so, woke Solar Eclipse who merely grumbled something and covered his head with the blanket.

"Why would Fluttershy want to kill you?" Luna asked, pulling the dagger from the bookshelf with her magic.

"I don't know, she just showed up at my house, and she was all wet and cold, so I gave her a blanket, and while I was warming up some soup for her, she said 'Rainbow Dash, run!' and lunged at me with that...that dagger! She cut me a few times, so I ran...well...flew here." Rainbow Dash said pinning Fluttershy to the floor.

"That makes no sense at all." Twilight said, slowly approaching the yellow pagasus. "Fluttershy is way to nice to do anything like this"

Fluttershy struggled under Rainbiw Dash, but being the much stronger pegasus, Rainbow Dash was easily capable of holding her down. Fluttershy looked around, searching for any way to free herself. She could hear ponies talking, but she had no idea who they were, and she couldn't understand them anyways. Her eyes locked onto the purple alicorn, and her bloodlust skyrocketed.

Twilight noticed that Fluttershy was staring at her. Twilight's stomach knotted when she saw the fire of murder raging in Fluttershy's eyes.

Luna looked at the dagger, observing its every detail. "Twilight. Can...can I talk to you alone for a moment?"

"Um...yea. Of course, Luna." Twilight said, following Luna to the lower floors of the Library.

The library was a wreck. Books were strewn about everywhere. Most of the couches and chairs were toppled onto the floor, the ones that were still upright, held cut and stab wounds. There were papers flying about, from the wind and rain that flew in from a shattered window. Glass littered the floor, lying alongside copious amounts of blood that stained the wooden flooding.

Luna led Twilight down the stairs, and into the kitchen, which thankfully, was untouched. Luna turned to face Twilight, and her already knotted stomach grew tighter when she saw Luna's expression.

"Twilight, I...can not say for certain, but...this dagger is from Canterlot."

Twilight gasped. "Does that mean she had plans to kill us, and bought it while she was out...visiting...Princess...Celestia?"

"I assume you know where I am going with this." Luna nodded. "She did not buy this dagger. You can not buy a weapon this deadly in Canterlot. This dagger is from Celestia and mine's personal armament. She was given this dagger by Celestia."

"That doesn't surprise me, but...how can you know for sure?"

"When Celestia and I were younger, we were bored one day, and decided to see who could create a more affective weapon-"

"You did what?!"

"Relax, Twilight. Equestria was not always as peaceful as it used to be." Luna answered quickly.

Twilight visibly relaxed. Luna continued speaking. "This dagger is the one I made for me personally. It is very deadly, and more sharp than a razor blade."

"So...Celestia gave her the dagger. That doesn't explain why she wants to murder Rainbow Dash." Twilight brought up the subject Luna was trying to avoid.

"I believe Celestia may have brainwashed her."

As soon as Luna said her final word, Rainbow dash let out a scream from upstairs. Without a moment to react, Fluttershy came down the stairs in a flash of yellow and pink, and tackled Luna.

Luna lost her concentration, and her magic lost its grip on the dagger. The dagger fell to the floor with an audible clang. Twilight gasped for the second time, and lunged for the dagger. She was too slow, as her face fell directly in contact with Fluttershy's fore hooves. Twilight looked up and gulped when she saw Fluttershy looking down at her, dagger in maw.

Fluttershy reared her head up, followed by her fore hooves, as she prepared to bring a death blow down on Twilight. Twilight was frozen in fear, and unable to scramble out of the way.

Fluttershy slammed her hooves onto the floor, head following through, dagger aimed for Twilight's face. Twilight was sure she was going to die, and closed her eyes to prepare herself, a single tear rolling down her cheek.

Luna lifted herself up off the ground, and moaned. Once she realized that Fluttershy was free of Rainbow Dash, she spun her head frantically to find the yellow pegasus. She screamed when she saw Fluttershy rearing up on her hind legs, angling the dagger down to Twilight's skull.

She tried to think of something to do, but quickly ran out of time as Fluttershy began her killing move. Without thinking, Luna spread all four legs out to stabilize herself, and lit her horn with magic. Time seemed to slow as Fluttershy's dagger grew to be within inches of Twilight's mane.

Luna could see two objects jumping down the stairs. One being a light blue, the other a deep-dark red. Eyes locked on Fluttershy, Luna heard what sounded to be a magical explosion.

Her eyes slowly raised to see a dark blue beam of magic flying out of the tip of her horn. She could feel the force behind, as her neck craned to keep her horn on target, while her legs skidded across the floor. She quickly tensed her hind leg muscles to stop herself from moving, creating a groove on the floor.

Fluttershy's dagger was now only a single inch away from its goal. However, Luna's magical beam was still on its way. Luna had no idea what spell she had cast, but whatever it was it needed to speed up.

Again, without thinking, a magical ward appeared at the base of her horn, and flew to the tip, followed by another, and another. After about five wards in quick succession, another louder magical eruption flew out of Luna's horn. Luna had to fight the recoil with all of her body. The spell became so powerful that some of the magic blasted out sideways. The dagger was now within a half inch of Twilight's head.

Twilight heard a loud magical explosion, followed by another, not less than a second after the first. She heard somepony scream, and felt a large gust of wind fly from above her head to the right. She then heard the sound of something digging into wood, followed by the sound of smoldering wood, and fire. She opened her right eye to see the dagger dug four inches into the floor, but also three feet away, creating a large gash in the wooden floor.

She looked around more, to see that there was a large gaping hole in the side of the library, which was completely enveloped in fire. Opening both eyes, she saw a large burn mark on the floor in front of her face leading from the hole, to a collapsed blue alicorn, who's horn was black and smoldering at the tip.

Behind Twilight, she could hear two ponies running down the stairs. She turned over to see Rainbow Dash, and Solar Eclipse standing at the bottom of the stairs.

She looked to Solar, whose face was a mixture of shock and terror.

Solar spoke first. "What. The. Hell. Was. That?!"