Celestial Eclipse

Chapter 3- The hunt begins

It only took about a day to travel back to Ponyville from Canterlot, although it wasn't too long of a trip, her mind still felt exhausted.

Twilight looked up into the sky. The sun and the moon were still sharing their forced embrace in the night sky. Twilight had been given her rather simple instructions, but was uncertain in how she would ever find this Solar Eclipse pony she was told of.

"Okay, so I can't use my magic too often, or Solar will begin to counter it with magic blocks and more powerful counterspells. I doubt I can overpower him, but i could try.

I have no idea what kind of magic he can use, but from what Luna told me he is most likely more powerful than me, and I can't ask my friends for help because Celestia wants to keep this a secret. I have no idea what he looks like, but somehow I'm just supposed to know him when I see him? Ugh....what have i gotten myself into."

Twilight decided that the best thing to do was to find a quiet place to organize her thoughts. Any other pony would say to go back to her library, but she knew spike would want to know what had happened, and she really didn't feel like being swamped by questions.

She figured that the best place to do so was in the fields overlooking Ponyville.

She reached the fields, and had just sat down when a bone-chilling cold wind forced its way past and around her body. She shivered as a long chill collapsed through her body starting at the tip of her horn, and traveling down until the tip of her tail finally shook it out of her body.

Twilight suddenly noticed that the world had become eerily quiet. Even though the field around her was quiet, there were still the occasional cricket and sounds of grass blowing in the wind. However, the wind that chilled Twilight to her core, hadn't made a single sound.

It wasn't soon after, that she felt like she wasn't alone after all. She lit her horn with a light spell and spun her head surveying the surrounding area, not really sure of what she would find. As she turned to look forward again she turned out her horn light, and began to hear faint mumbling.

She tried to ignore it but found it rather pointless as it grew in volume. She lifted her hooves to block out the sound, and it worked, until she discovered that it was coming from inside her head.

The volume of the mumbling continued to rise into loud moans and yelling. Soon she had to squeeze her eyes shut to try to stop the pain in her ears. The intensity of the sound new no bounds as it started to increase in pitch as well.

The pain was so intense, that Twilight had fallen over and began rolling around in the tall grass.

It was now a continuous ringing, and tears had started to fall from her eyes. It felt as if somepony had glued together five hundred knives and shoved them into her ears without mercy.

She was just about to pass out when the sound suddenly stopped. Replaced by a deep breathy chuckle. She opened her mouth to say something but found that no matter how had she tried she could not say a single thing.

"You are the one they sent after me? Oh this is too good. Don't worry about the speaking thing. It's just a temporary muting spell. I really don't want to hurt you Pricess Twilight Sparkle, but if you choose to chase after me, I will be forced to defend myself. I hope you understand, but my sister's have misinformed you. Please don't take this personally, but my powers top yours exponentially. I wouldn't want you to get hurt due to their negligence.

I will not reveal myself to you, but I'm sure you can assume who I am. You are quite intelligent after all. I just have one thing to tell you. You only know half of the story, through my sister's eyes. If you truly care to find out the truth, it will not be hard for you to find me. Just be sure not to try anything you will regret."

Twilight felt another gust if wind, but this one was very warm. She could still feel the presence of Solar, but she couldn't see him.

"How am I supposed to find you if I have no idea as to where you will be at any time of the...well...whenever?" Twilight said sitting back up.

"That is for me to know, and you to find-" Solar was cut off by a blood curdling scream that came from Ponyville.

Twilight instinctively lit her horn for a teleportation spell. She burst into a giant shiny lavender ball.
She was suddenly standing i front of her home when she heard another scream. "Somepony help me!"

Twilight recognized the voice but instead of being occupied by Pinkie Pie's standard bubbly personality, it was chocked in terror and desperation.

Twilight unfurled her wings and flew along ground level as quickly as she could to the source. She rounded a corner and collided head on into Pinkie's side. Both ponies were sent tumbling across the ground.

Twilight grunted from the collision and wobbly stood up to face Pinkie. "Pinkie...Pie.... what's wrong?!" She spurted out between breaths.

Pinkie Pie didn't respond, but Twilight quickly noticed that Pinkie was starring up into the sky. However she wasn't starring at the solar eclipse, but at Pound Cake who was carrying his sister Pumpkin cake dangerously close to a windmill, which Pumpkin cake was making spin rather quickly with her magic.

Twilight reacted instantly jumping into the sky and flapping her wings as hard as she could. Twilight was a few feet away from the twins when a blood red blur passed in front of her, and the twins were instantly gone. She stopped mid flight and starred at the windmill when reality hit her, and she started to look around speedily for the missing foals.

It wasn't until she looked back at Pinkie Pie, that she was completely shocked.

Standing in front of Pinkie Pie, with the two twins hanging for his mouth by their diapers, was a dark red alicorn. His horn was long and ended at a sharp tip. His mane and tail looked unkempt, and were black with a thick outlining of red.

His eyes were a deep blue like a cloudless sky on a summer day. His iris was the shape of a cats, and his ears ended at sharp tips.

To Twilight's surprise, he looked young, probably close to her age.
Her eyes inspected every inch of his body with curiosity, but stopped as they locked on to his cutie mark. A sun that was halfway covered by a moon.

"Here you go ma'am safe and sound." He said gently placing the Cake twins on the ground in front of Pinkie Pie.

"Oooooooh thank you thank you thank you thank you!" Pinkie Pie said wrapping the strange pony in a gigantic hug. He flinched away at first, but eventually returned the hug, with a big smile plastering his face.

Twilight decided to land and investigate further. She approached the hugging ponies quietly, but fliched when she accidentally kicked a rock across the ground.

The red pony's eyes flew open and smile dropped to a frown as he quickly broke the hug and backed away from Pinkie.

Twilight decided to press the pony into an interrogation. She quickly teleported to within inches of the dark red pony and continued pushing him backwards.

He matched her steps stride for stride, trying to keep her from getting any closer than she already was.

Twilight spoke first. "Your name is Solar Eclipse isn't it?"

"It is, b-but that's none of your business!" Solar said, trying to hold a tough physique, but failing horribly.

"It most certainly is, considering I'm supposed to hunt you down, and bring you to Celestia."

"P-please don't t-take me back there!" Solar said, as he had just backed himself against the wall of a building.

"And why shouldn't I? You are trying to take back the throne from Celestia and Luna!" Twilight was now even closer to him than before. She saw that he was now beginning to sweat.

"B-b-because I'm not. The whole eclipse thing was j-just a little reminder that I am still a-alive." Solar was no standing on his hind legs, pressing himself as hard as he could against the wall. He was desperately trying to avoid Twilight's eyes, but anywhere he looked, Twilight would follow his eyes with her own.

"What do you mean your not?" Twilight was now standing i front of him bracing herself against the wall, trapping Solar in the space between her hooves.

Solar was now slinking his was down to the ground. "I-I've changed! I don't want the throne! I just want to...to be l-loved again."

Twilight was completely and utterly shocked at what he said. She saw that he had closed his eyes, and tears were rolling down his cheeks. She quickly backed up and gave him some room. She instantly regretted doing so, because his horn quickly lit, and he teleported away within a second.

Twilight stood there, starring at the section of wall where Solar had once stood. "What the hell just happened?"