Chapter 5- Searching For Help

Twilight Sparkle had been trying to digest what had happened the previous night. She had been reorganizing the library's books, which usually helped clear her mind, but this time, it just wouldn't be enough of a distraction. She forfeited to her curious mind.

"He supposedly wants to take back the throne from Celestia and Luna, but he said that he didn't. Even if he does, he broke down pretty quickly under pressure. He's nowhere near strong enough to challenge Celestia."

Twilight climbed down off of the ladder she had been standing on and gathered another mismatched pile of books with her magic, carrying them over to a lower shelf. "Plus, he said about being loved again, and if that's true, why would he steal the throne? Ponies all over Equestria would come to hate and despise him."

Twilight let out a long sigh, feeling defeated in her mind. "Unless he truly isn't trying to steal the throne. If that were the case, why would Celestia send me after him?"

Twilight had placed the pile of books in the correct order on the shelf, and walked over to the door. "Ugh...I need to dig for more information." She looked back, and frowned seeing that she was only half done organizing, but she felt that she had to deal with the questions first.

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Solar Eclipse woke to the sounds of multiple birds chirping outside of his cave home. He stood lazily, and drug his tired body to the mouth to start the day.

He opened his mouth above him to collect the water that dropped from the roof of the cave. It wasn't the most sanitary thing to do, but he desperately hated the bad taste in his mouth in the mornings.

He spat the water out onto the floor once he had gathered enough, and given his head a vigorous rattle. "Hmmm...Luna said that Twilight Sparkle can help me in my cause. If she honestly thinks that she can help...I suppose it can't hurt to try." He stepped out of his home onto the rocky outcropping that acted as a porch. "I jus have noooo idea as to how to get her to become an ally."

He decided the best thing to do was to search for her in the last place he had seen her. Ponyville.

He looked down to the quiet town. There wasn't much activity from what he could see from the mountains. He expected as much, and decided that closer investigation was necessary.

He couldn't just rush in though, Twilight had seen him now, and that awkward pink pony would surely recognize him. He had to go stealthily. It wouldn't be to difficult, he would just cloak himself like he did when he first met Twilight.

He lit his horn, and a bright red magical aura surrounded his body, and within seconds his horn began to vanish, followed by his head, neck, and body.

He was completely invisible. It was never an easy magical spell to preform, and always called for complete focus. It was also common that most alicorns used it or at least new about it. Twilight new about it, but never saw a true reason to learn it. However during his reign, Solar had altered the spell so that he could phase through solid objects, such as walls, doors, and even other living beings.

The only downside was that in order to actually touch something than the ground or floor, he had to deactivate the spell. Which, evidently, caused him to accidentally reveal himself to Twilight, so that he could save the two crazy twin foals.

He opened his wings, and made one giant leap into the air, but instead of flapping them to fly higher, he held them straight out, and angled down into a dive.

His cave was and decent distance from the ground, and he had enough space to get a gigantic gravity assisted speed boost, before he would pull up, just before colliding with the ground. He had an insane speed multiplier at his doorstep.

He blasted through the sky towards Ponyville. He was traveling so fast that it could rival Rainbow Dash at top speeds. He was about a mile out of Ponyville when he decided to start his climb.

He angled up, and used his excess speed to get as high as he could before he had to start pushing to keep from stalling. He had to have been a few hundred feet above Ponyville now. He could cross the entire town with his eyes without even turning his head.

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Twilight wasn't really sure where, or who to go to for help. She was ordered to keep the whole thing surrounding Solar Eclipse a secret.

"I suppose since Pinkie Pie has already met him, she might be able to help a little..." Twilight said walking through Ponyville. She walked past the windmill she had been at last night, and approached the entrance to Sugarcube Corner. She walked inside the bakery, and looked over to the counter.

Mrs. Cake was messing with the cash register, and hadn't noticed Twilight walk in. She felt like somepony was watching her, and when she looked up she noticed Twilight.

"Why hello there Twilight!" Mrs. Cake said with the welcoming smile she always had for any customers. "I'm sorry Princess, but...the cash register doesn't seem to be cooperating today, but for you, anything is on the house!"

"Gee thanks Mrs. Cake," Twilight said walking up to the counter,"but you really don't have to do that for me just because I'm a princess now, and I didn't come to buy anything. I'd actually like to talk to Pinkie Pie about what happened last night."

"Oh riiiiiight...that...well she should be upstairs in her room, and she might have a few questions for you two. She kept asking me why you were so mean to that 'nice and wonderful' new alicorn. I don't want to know why, or what happened. That's for you two to figure out. Now if you will excuse me. I have a problem to solve."

Mrs. Cake went right back to messing with the cash register.

"Umm...okay then." Twilight said walking around the counter, and over to the stairway.

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Solar had passed over Ponyville seven times, and was deciding to turn back, when on his eighth pass, he saw a suspiciously familiar, lavender colored pony walk passed the windmill that he had recognized on his first flyby.

He stopped to hover for closer examination, and soon realized that the lavender pony was indeed, Twilight Sparkle.

He closed his wings so that they were tight against his body. He fell head first into a quick dive. Once he was one hundred feet from the ground, he opened his wings and spread them out wide for an air brake. At fifty feet he leveled out some so that he increased the distance he had to slow down. At twenty five feet, he spread his legs wide to prepare for a landing. Finally at ten feet he flapped his wings, and floated gently down to the ground.

He checked quickly to make sure that he had not shut off his cloaking spell. Seeing that he was still completely invisible, he made his way towards Sugarcube Corner.

He walked into the little store and saw that it seemed to be a rather successful bakery. The shelves behind the counter were lined with cakes, cookies, muffins, cupcakes, and all kinds of sweets anypony could ask for. That was not what interested him though.

What caught his attention was the tail of Twilight Sparkle heading up the stairway behind the counter. He quickly moved through the counter, and passed a pony he had not noticed before.

He approached the stairway and looked up to see Twilight climbing the final step into what looked to be a hallway. Solar opened his wings, and in one giant thrust was launched to the top of the stairs, and was now standing a few feet behind Twilight.

He wanted to open his mouth, to speak out and let her now he was there, but he chose against it when she knocked on somepony's door.

Author's Note

Sorry about this chapter being another short one. X(

I was really hoping that it would be about 500 words longer, but meh...I guess I write too fast.

Just like last time let me know if I made any editing mistakes, if you think the story is going too fast or slow, what you think so far, etc.

Tanks for reading :D