“Princess Celestia, do you think Blue blood was harboring humans to trade with the griffons for weapons?”

“Princess Luna, is there any other suspects within the Canterlot government have any other dark secrets that both of you don’t know of?”

After the past eight hours of discussing with the Griffon embassy about what happened at the party the two sisters were trapped again with a swarm of reporters.

“We will all answer your questions later, but my sister and I both need to head back to our home to discuss the matter personally. After all, Blue blood was our nephew and we still haven’t set up his funeral. Now, if you excuse us.” Cealestia and Luna entered their chariot giving the driver the signal to take off. For a brief five minutes the two sisters let out a long sigh of relief before relaxing on the plush seats.

“Well, that went well, sister.” Luna said sarcastically.

“Quite, at least we have some favors from the Griffon ambassador from this little incident.” Celestia said to her sister.

“What I want to do now is just go home.” Luna told her older sister.

Silently nodding to Luna as a sign of agreement, the sisters heard a loud knock coming from the outside. Opening the side window Celestia spotted a grey pegasus flapping her wings with a note in her hand signed to her.

“Thank you, mailmare,” Taking the letter from the messengers hand the solar monarch levitated a small bag of bits to the blonde haired pegasus, closed the window, opened the letter, and started to read out loud for Luna to hear.

“I would like to inform you that we have safely arrived to Manehatten and are staying at a hotel as our temporary headquarters.” Celestia stopped to look at her sister to see how she reacted. After hearing her older sister read the letter her son written she became less tense after hearing that her only son is safe and nodded to Celestia to keep reading.

“We still have our third member missing, but I am sure that Saint and I can handle the mission by ourselves. I also like to inform you that we spotted Iron Will entering the police station and leaving with a cart full of boxed cargo that I assume are his failed weapons. I will report to you after our mission is done.” Folding the paper in half she used her magic to ignite the letter to smoke and waited for Luna to put her thought in the matter.

“I’m sure that that Artemis and his friend aren’t the only ones trying to kill our corrupt employee.”

“Right, I won’t be surprised if the next letter he sends us will be about the assassins trying to interfere with our plans.”

“Speaking of plans, what about the funeral for Blueblood?” Luna asked.

“I already sent some ponies I trust to make Blueblood’s funeral to be a private gathering. The one who really found our nephew’s corpse was Apollo trying to hide from his nanny again. That whole ordeal really shook him up, but I’m glad that my son can sleep save at night with your help, Luna.” Celestia said.

“It was not me who helped Apollo, sister, I checked his dreams and the one who was really helping him sleep soundly was you.”

After hearing Luna said that to her sister, Celestia smiled and looked ahead out the window even more anxious to go home and hug her son. Luna was happy about her sister, but at the same time she was even more jealous of how strong the bond Celestia has between Apollo who is not even a pony made their bond even more special.

If only Artemis can just give me another chance.

“Still having trouble, Luna?” Celestia asked.

“Is it that obvious?”

“Give it some time, Luna, you can’t just force your way back in your son’s life after what happened.”

Being reminded about why Artemis is so disconnected by his mother made Luna wish she can go back in time and tell her past self not to do that one stupid mistake that made her innocent little boy into a cold detached man he was today.

“Luna, how could you have known you were going into heat on your son’s birthday? I am sure he would have forgiven you.” Celestia said.

“Yeah, but it was the fact that I had sex with those new recruits during his birthday that made him angry with me. To make it even worse was that my heat season was so bad I did not notice the room I was using was Artemis’s room.” Just telling out loud made her memories even more vivid.

She remembered her son’s Birthday, the two guards (one was grey coated unicorn the other a white pegasus) she was having sex with at the same time in her son’s room, limbs and moans erupting, and then Artemis entering out of the blue, his face showing a pure innocent smile slowly turning into a confused stare before running away crying.

After that incident, Artemis was not the same smiling child she loved. Artemis became distant, he started to not talk to her, eat next to her, and he even made his personal maid burn his entire bed that Luna used to fuck the two guards.

“Curse this body! Being alone on the moon for a thousand years made me more sensitive to my heat flashes.” Luna said grimly.

“He at least started to sit next to you again.” Celestia said to Luna trying to make her sister happy.

“Maybe, but that still doesn’t excuse me for doing sexual acts on my son’s bed. I was so embarrassed of what I did that I decided to make my son train to be a Templar to make him forget the incident rather than talking about what happened.”

“No wonder he rather prefers to be around female guards then male ones.” Celestia said as a matter of fact.

“OH! I am a horrible mama!” Opening her side window she stuck her head out and shouted.

“Artemis, if you can hear me then please forgive your poor excuse for a mama!"

[Somewhere in Manehatten]

*Brrrr*”Did you close the window, Saint? I’m still cold as fuck over here.” Artemis said clutching his blanket over his body.

“Yeah, dude, if you’re still cold then just go to bed and I’ll wake you up if something happened.” Saint said.

With the two Templars now living in an apartment, thanks to the Celestia pulling a few strings, Artemis and Saint were staying at a high class room, looking down at the police station, and waiting if Iron will might return for more. The two have been watching the same building for so long that they did not see the clock showing midnight.

“We just need more proof of what he’s doing and then we can finish him off.” Artemis said to Saint.

“Yeah, yeah- Oh shit! That’s got to hurt!” Saint shouted out loud, looking through his telescope.

“What do you mean? What are you looking at Saint, did something happen?”

“No, no, no I’m just looking at this guy who’s- damn he just sliced that guard’s face right off her head!”

“What,” Getting off the couch Artemis shoved his friends aside to see what was happening on the streets. “Shit! That’s an Assassin down there. Come on, Saint, we need to get down there.”

“Ok, just please use the elevator this time I-“Right before saint was about to finish talking Artemis leaped out of the window, closed both his arms to his sides, and activated his wing suits to glide safely down to a nearby building.

“Hate having to use our wing suits.” Seeing as he has no say in the matter Saint followed suit and glided down where Artemis landed.

“Next time, warn me when you decided to do jump down a high building, because I’m not going to do it again.” Saint told Artemis.

“Oh, shut up, we had our wing suits on the whole time, so we were never really going to die.” Artemis said.

“Look, just because the scientist at the castle says their invention is save doesn’t mean they still used humans to try out their failed prototypes.” Saint told Artemis.

“Can we talk about this later, we still need to catch the assassin and saw him running down the road leading to the station.”

While the two were running on roof tops, they stopped and found another body with the head completely gone.

“How the hell did our happy-go-lucky killer get up here so fast?” Saint asked.

With a fraction of a second, Artemis shoved Saint behind a ventilation shaft, drew his dagger out of its sheath, and used it as a mirror to find the mystery shooter.

“Did you think the shooter found us already?”

“If he did, then we would be dead by now.” Artemis answered.

For a brief moment of silence, the two thought they were safe before a light flashed behinds them making both templars turn around to face a police mare holding a lantern.

“Freeze, human! I don’t how you humans got up here, but I’m going to take under arrest.”

“Shit, I knew we forgot something to bring our papers to notify why we’re here before we decided to jump out the window.”

Artemis on the other hand, did not want to be arrested. He thought that the chief of police would have already notified his police force about why there here, but apparently they didn’t get the memo. Right when the both humans lifted their arms in the air as a sign of surrender, they heard a loud *bang* coming from out of nowhere and the next thing they saw was the officer’s head scattering all over the roof.

“Holy shi- mph!” Artemis covered Saint’s mouth, dragged him back to hide, and left the body lying on the cement floor.

“Stay down, shut up, and follow me.” Artemis low crawled followed by his friend to the end of the room and began to climb down to street level.

“The streets should give us more cover then the roof.”

“Sure,”

“The problem right now is we need to double time our run to find where the assassin went.”

“I don’t think that’ll be a problem,” Pointing out his finger Saint showed Artemis a trail of bodies leading down an empty road giving them a path to follow.

“Come on,” Artemis said to Saint.

“Yeah, follow the fucking bloody brick road.” He said sarcastically.

Running alongside the thick blood path, Artemis and Saint reached the police station and climbed the roof to have a better vantage point of where the culprit is, but made sure to stay down to hide if the sniper is still around.

“Ok, so, when our culprit is spotted we ambush him and use our numbers to overpower him.”

“Hey, can you tell me again why you hate your mom?” Saint asked him out of the blue.

“Are we really bringing this back up?”

“I just want to know why”

“Are you serious? Fine, during my birthday I went to my room since the butlers told me they found her in there, so I entered in my room and guess what I saw?” Artemis looked over at Saint.

“Uhh,”

“I found her have sex with not one, but fucking two castle guards! And did you know what her grand parenting scheme was? She decided to make her son train to be a templar, so I can repress that god awful memory, and did you know what happened instead?”

“Um,”

“It just made even more pissed at her! Now, I know why my mother did it, my private tutor told me mares have heat seasons and need sexual release, but my mother also told me that even in heat mares should only have sex with the pony they will love forever or with a trust worthy friend to be a cooler.”

“Wait, what’s a cooler?”

“A cooler is another female who has a strap on that produce some weird liquid shit that’s supposed to calm down a mare in heat, but enough about weird sex toys, I’m trying to tell you why I don’t like my mom.”

“Ok, ok, keep talking.” Saint said while gesturing his hands for Artemis to keep on talking.

“Well, those guards weren’t coolers and she was fucking two at the same fucking time, so not only did she lie about friends to trust releasing sexual tension from heat seasons, but apparently having sex with somepony as a sign of love was also a motherfucking lie!” With that final remark Artemis was left feeling more and more angry before taking a deep breath and calming himself down.

“That’s why I despise my mother.”

“Well, Artemis, there is a word for people like you and it is called ‘mommy issues.’” Saint told him.

“I don’t want that coming from someone who hates their mother more than me.” Artemis said.

“Can’t you just forgive your mother? It was a simple mistake.”

“Did you not hear that my mother sent me off to god knows where to be a templar just because I saw her banging some random stallions?”

“I’m sure she’s turn up inside for that incident. Hell, you can’ have her take all the blame. What about those two guards she was having sex with?” Saint asked.

“Oh, I already had taken my wrath on them the day after my birthday party. I framed them by stashing some illegal salt in their lockers and now their imprisoned with a bail price of one million bits.” Artemis said with a happy grin on his face.

“Wow, you are one vengeful son of a bitch.”

“Now, that’s not true, my mother is not a diamond dog, but a perverted, old mare who can’t even keep her legs closed whenever there’s a stallion nearby!” Artemis said even more angrily then before.

“Look, you’re an adult now you should forgive your mom and- *sniff* *sniff* do you smell something burning?” Saint asked sniffing the air.

Looking down to the streets the two humans found smoke rising out of the police station.

“Oh, shit. Did we just have a huge talk about terrible parents that we literally forgot about catching the cop killer?” Saint asked.

“Come on! We need to see if there are survivors!” jumping down from the roof, Artemis and Saint entered from the front of the building and searched if there were ponies still trapped inside.

“There’s no one else here, Artemis! We need to get out of here before we burn to a crisp!” Saint shouted.

“What about Mr. Clad?” picking a door by random Artemis slammed it open with his shoulder and entered in the room to find a burning corpse inside.

“I think I found what started the fire, and found the chief of police.” Artemis said.

“Just great, the one pony we need to talk to and he’s already dead!” Saint said to Artemis.

“Ok, we need to leave, now!”

“Way ahead of you, my friend, I’ll see you at the hotel!” Saint shouted at Artemis outside of the station.

“Oh, you asshole, you don’t leave a teammate behind!” running outside toward his friend and hid behind a dumpster in an alley before a squad of police mares showed up alongside the fire department.

“Shit, this is not good.”

“We lost our only pony that can give us some help. The only person we need to help us now is Orpheus, and we still don’t know where he is.” Artemis said.

“Come on, Artemis, it’s not going to be that hard.” Saint said while scavenging inside the dumpster.

“And how pray tell will we find him?” Artemis asked.

‘With this,” Saint handed his friend a crumpled piece of paper as evidence.

Artemis straightened out the dirty poster and looked at an ivory unicorn wearing shades playing as a DJ at a night club tomorrow night, but what really caught Artemis’s eye was the dark figure behind the stage.

“You see where I’m getting at, right?” Saint asked.

Squinting his eyes closer Artemis finally realized why this mystery person looks so familiar was because the human behind the stage was Orpheus. Artemis looked back at Saint brushing off small scraps of trash from his cloths and told him.

“You know, when was the last time we ever been inside a night club?” Artemis asked with a small grin forming on his lips.

“It’s been too long, my friend, to, too long.” Told saint also matching the grin Artemis has.

Waiting about half an hour both humans found an opening of escaping and ran out of the scene of the crime.

“By the way, Saint, you never told me why you hate your mom.”

Slowing down his pace to match Artemis, he decided to tell him why.

“Since you told me I guess I should tell you. Do you know who my mom is, right?”

“Yeah, Ms. Fleur is a most popular mare and has- well had a trophy husband before the scandal.” Artemis answered.

“Yup, well, you’re right that my mother married my dad, Mr. Fancy pants, but apparently she decided to cheat on him with someone else for the past three years.” Saint explained.

“Wow, is that why she’s no longer living at home with you and your dad?” Artemis asked.

“Yup, and I still can’t find who she was having an affair with, but I can tell you now, if I ever see that motherfucker I am going to personally ruin his life like he did with mine.” Saint said with a deadly tone resonating with his inner hate just waiting to be unleashed on the pony that ruined his family.

[Somewhere else]

*Brrr* “Hey, Jonah, can you close the window I’m getting cold.” Mike said clutching his blanket for warmth.

“Dude, the window is closed just go to bed.” Jonah said half awake.

“Fine, must have been my imagination, but if I get a cold I’m going to blame you.” Mike complained.

“Whatever, just be ready for tomorrow we have a long day ahead of us.” Jonah replied and went back to sleep.

“I could have sworn I still felt really cold for a moment, but I’ll worry about it later. I mean, it’s not like something bad is going to happen, right?”

Author's Note

Hello, and also a huge sorry for not getting this chapter out sooner then later. I had a lot of things to do in spring, but I am still glad I am able to get this chapter out now. I know most of you will probably see some bad spelling or grammar mishaps, but if I have the time I will fix it or I might forget later, sorry.

Like always this is brotherhoof12 saying "Whoo! just a few more days till summer!"