Land of the Fogotten, Cry of the Moon Princess

Upon waking, Rainbow Dash realized that she could hear Fluttershy tossing in her sleep. She opened her door and looked around, her eyes finding the clock. 5 AM... Ugh, too early. She could still hear Fluttershy having a rough night and decided to wake her up and comfort her. She opened Fluttershy's door and kept it open using the light from the central room to guid her way. "Fluttershy, wake up." Still asleep. "Fluttershy, Angel is being eaten unless you do something!" she felt bad for resorting to such durastic measures, but it worked.

"Rainbow?... RAINBOW! Why are you in my room!?" Fluttershy was startled and blushing so bad she looked like Pinkie Pie.

"You were having a bad dream I think, soooo I thought I would come comfort you for now." Rainbow Dash sat on the edge of her bed and put a wing over to touch Fluttershy's wing.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, did I wake you up? Oh I woke you up, I'm so sorry, it won't happen again..." Fluttershy wrapped the wing Rainbow Dash touched around her face to hide it and curled up in a ball. The smell of Rainbow Dash's perfume still on her wing as she took big deep breaths just to smell it more.

"Oh no, I usually wake up this early, you know, gotta practice and prepare." It was a lie. She usually woke up around 9 AM for practice, but she didn't want Fluttershy to feel bad. "You just try to go back to bed, knowing that I'll be here to make it easier on you."

"Rainbow, you don't need to do that, I'll be fine. It won't happen again..." She wanted to scream STAY WITH ME! Hold me... care for me... love me... but she knew, Rainbow only was doing this as a friend.

"Okay, I suppose. But if you need anything ever, just let me know! I'm always there for a freind" And Rainbow Dash quietly smiled and returned to her room to try to get some beauty rest... Beauty... "That's right, I was on a date with Sorin when everything went down... He took me to a nice place in Canterlot that cost a lot of money I bet... He said he even made reservations. Reservations, in Canterlot! Who does that!? That idiot had to go and try to save me... These shadow creatures came out of nowhere and everywhere, and one grabbed me..." She ran a hoof over a cut across her chest and down the inside of her left fore-leg, a cut you could only see if you were looking for it, a cut that didn't hurt too bad physically, she's had worse in training accidents, but hurt more emotionally, because it reminded her of Sorin... "Tch... That idiot..." She started to cry to herself quietly.

*Knock knock. "Who could be knocking at this time?" Spike answered the door and found to his surprise Golden Rain.

"Hey you. I was in my room and woke up and heard somepony walking around and it scared me... will you chack it out for me please?" Golden Rain went into his room as he went out and looked around.

"Golden, the center room is always lit, you can check whenever you want." Spike walked back into his room and closed the door, forgetting that Golden Rain was still in there with him.

"So, you wanna see what REAL dragons see on a mare?" Golden Rain started to spread her legs.

"Get out." Spike turned his head and spoke angrily.

"Excuse me?" Nobody had ever turned her down before now... and he would not live to see another day if he continued to reject her in his next reply.

Spike grabbed her by the throat and lifted her, smoke billowing from his nostrils. "I'm doing this for Twilight, for Celestia, For Gilda. The next time you come into my room you're leaving a pile of ashe." He opened his door and threw her out, almost across the room. She sat there staring at the door that she was just thrown from.

"I will get you back for this... and my what a lovely Rainbow you will make, or maybe I might make you into some golden rai and drink it as it falls from the clouds" She thought to herself. She was very proud of her Golden Rain, most ponies when they heard about it, thought it was a hoax and it was just the Pegasi peeing on them... Untill the experienced the making of it first hoof. "It takes 5 days to make. You have to cut the heart of one pony out, and force a loved one to eat it. that gives them a unique color to their blood, but to perfect it, you have to slowly torture the loved one first for five days, then, let them think you screwed up and they can escape, but you are waiting for them and drag them back slowly. THAT is when you rip cut or gouge where you want before removing the heart when they are still alive. This makes the beautiful golden color when processed by the Pegasus Device. Oh what a wonderous device. I am the only one who can ever make GOLDEN rain though." She thought to herself as she slowly slunked back into her room.

"Twilight, Twiiiilight." Luna shook Twilight gently

"Huh, What? What time is it?" Asked a groggy Twilight, her main all a-skew, and a small bit of drool rolling down her face.

"Time to get up, we still need to figure out how to read the incantation properly, and make a counter spell." Luna held the book up to the light to get a better look at it. "I don't understand this at all, the words are all in the wrong order."

"What do you mean? Wrong order?" Twilight had taken the book from Luna and was trying to read it "Woah!" She jumped and dropped the book as the words started moving around and settled in a funny order that made no sense at all. Luna witnessed this happening too since the book was on the floor from Twilight dropping it. "Luna, do you know what this means?"

"I'm afraid I have no clue what's going on or what this means." Luna gave Twilight a worried look.

"Perhaps getting someone else to read it might work." Twilight inquired hopefully.

"It is possible it only does this to Alicorns, but I am uncertain... There are a number of things that it could be Twilight." Luna and Twilight were both distressed at this point when Spike knocked on the door

"It's me, Spike. You guy's up yet?" Spike seemed impatient.

"Uh, Yes. We've been up for a while now." Twilight called through the door. "You can come in whenever Spike, just not when I'm asleep." Twilight opened the door for him and Luna stood up in a hastened motion; Twilight had forgotten they were still cuddling, and Luna is a very formal pony.

"I brought you two breakfast, I'm sorry it's not Canterlot gourmet Princess Luna." Spike handed them a bowl of hay, lettuce and oats. "that's all I could find to pack before coming here."

"Thank you, you are a great assistant, Spike." Luna was very hungry, she hadn't eaten in a few days because she felt she didn't deserve the food. Why should I be allowed to eat if I couldn't even save my own sister?... This thought ran through her head constantly, how she couldn't save her own sister. What kind of pony was she anyways, one who can't do anything right, one who once tried to kill her own sister, and now wishes it was her who died instead. Twilight looked at Luna and they both started eating.

"Yes, thank you Spike." Twilight had said with a smile. "I have a question for you Spike..."

"Anything Twilight." Spike was always eager to help.

"Can you read this book?" Twilight handed him the book he had found for them.

"Ummm... Twilight?... Wy don't you just read it?" Spike took the book and saw the letters in the wrong places. "Woah, what happened? Spell go wrong or something?" When Spike had found the book he flipped through the pages and all words and letters seemed to be in the right place, so what happened? "This incident remind you of someone?... Say, Discord maybe?" Spike wasn't at the Canterlot Castle when everything went down, and didn't know all of the details because it was a very sore subject for the only two ponies who were there and got out.

"It's... Impossible..." Twilight said and layed down uncomfortably. "Discord was locked away in Tartarus by that monster for trying to aid Celestia in defeating him." Twilight had considdered trying to open a gateway to Tartarus from where she was multiple times, but the gateway to Tartarus can only be opened by so much magic it might rip apart the demension they were in, so they would have to be in their own demension for it, and even so Twilight wasn't sure if she could do it, even with Luna's help. But maybe, just maybe, if they coud rescue Cadence, the three of them could do it.

"Then maybe somepony put a spell on it? Can you dispell it if somepony did?" Spike had thought he'd seen letters moving around like this before, but he wasn't sure.

"I don't know Spike, we can try..." Twilights hold glowed and she closed her eyes in concentration to cast a spell, but not to dispell another ponies magic, to detect if there was any magic used on this book and by who. "What!?" Twilights horn stopped glowing suddenly and she took a step back.

"Are you okay?" Spike rushed to her side and put an arm around her back

"What is it, my dear Twilight? What happened?" Luna rushed to her other side because it looked like Twilight might fall over.

"Celestia!?" Twilight's face was frozen in shock

"What!? My sister put a spell on this book? It must have been when we first encountered their race and banished Tyric to Tartarus." Luna looked down and slightly leaned away from Twilight thinking about her sister and what she might have been able to do better to save her.

"Starswirl the Bearded!?" The words came out of her mouth, and she had seen it, but she still didn't believe it.

"What?" Spike and Luna said in unison.

"The two of them working together to put a spell on this can only mean that they were serious about keeping this language a secret, but why?" Twilight sat down disheartened, there was no possible way any of them could undo the spell if the two of them combined their magic to enchant this book.

"I do not believe my sister would ask Starswirl the Bearded for help to enchant a book if it wasn't absolutely important that nopony ever reads what it really says." Luna picked up the book and looked at it once more before leaving the room. What time is it? When should we leave? She thought to herself as she walked into the large center room, her eyes finding the clock. Almost 7 in the morning, everypony should be getting ready for the activities today would later hold. Luna walked over to Fluttershy's door and gently knocked. "Fluttershy? Are you awake?" Luna already knew the answer, she was keeping watch over everypony in their dreams, and knew that Fluttershy had been awake for about two hours.

"Um, yes..." Fluttershy opened the door a crack and showed her face only.

"Just informing you that it is almost seven in the morning, you should be getting ready." Luna spoke softly and calmly as to not pressure poor Fluttershy.

"O-okay. Let me just um... fix my bed and I'll be ready." Fluttershy was about to close the door when Luna put her hoof in the way.

"Don't worry, you ma take your time... and Fluttershy? I wanted to appologize for yesterday, Crashing into you... I was being chased and had turned to throw a blast of magic at them, and ran into you..." Luna looked down and blushed a little at her clumsyness, and then again was reminded of what she could have done better to save her sister.

"Oh, it's quite alright, I wasn't looking where I was going, so really I should be appologizing to you." Fluttershy reassured her.

"It would appear then, that we were both at fault, again, I appologize. " Luna looked away and lowered her head slightly, still thinking of her sister, who's body she would soon retrieve.

"I forgive you Princess Luna." Fluttershy said as she bowed. "I'm also sorry for having run into you, Pricess Luna." She lowered her head a little farther.

"Please, Fluttershy, just Luna is fine." Luna had put her hoof under Fluttershy's chin and pushed her head back up. "There is no need to bow to a friend." Luna said with a smile.

Fluttershy had returned the smile. "Let me just get things straightened up in my room and I will be out shortly."

"Remember, you can take your time." As she walked away she realized the sign above the door didn't say Fluttershy, but Rainbow Dash, and smiled to herself and walked away slightly faster. They can take as much time as they need. She walked over to Golden Rain's door and it opened before she got there. "Goodmorning Golden Rain. Did you sleep well?" Luna already knew the answer to that as well.

"You alread know exactly how I slept Princess." She emphasized the word Princess with an irritated tone.

"Yes, I do. I like to hear my subjects describe their veiw of it to me anyways. " Luna said pointedly, slightly emphasizing the word subject to put Golden Rain in her rightful place; on the ground bowing at her hooves.

"I don't feel like it." Golden Rain challenged. and Luna accepted.

"It is time for you to prepare for the upcoming fight, however, if you wish I will show you what it means to challenge a Princess of Equestria." Luna was irritated, and didn't usually threaten other ponies, but this one was just too much for her.

"Why should I be scared of some 'princess', when they can't even do their job well enough to save the single most important pony to the entirety of Equestria and beyond from being killed in her sleep?" Golden Rain said and walked by a frozen Luna, who then walked quietly back to her room and started to cry. "Tch, some 'All-mighty-Princess' she is" Golden Rain said as she walked up to the door that said Kitchen above it and looked for some nice tasty oats.

"Fluttershy! Why did you open the door!? Now she knows that we were together..." Rainbow had asked alarmed.

"I'm sorry! I didn't think it would be that big of a deal because we were just cuddling and sleeping... And she called my name anyways, so she probably already knew..." Fluttershy looked down and started kicking the ground.

"Ugh, I guess you're right, I'm sorry Fluttershy, I just got scared for some reason. I guess I just didn't want Luna to get the wrong Idea." Rainbow dash waved Fluttershy to the bed to sit next to her.

"It's okay Dashie..." Fluttershy had come to Rainbow Dash's room because she heard her crying about Sorin. When Rainbow Dash had told her what happened she had wrapped Rainbow in her wings and just held her untill a knock on the door when Luna called for her.

"Thanks..." Rainbow Dash had blushed a little, but with the dim light you couldn't tell. "... For coming in here and making me feel better..."

"Oh, I would never leave a friend to cry when I know I can help, especially when they just helped comfort me." Fluttershy had also started blushing, but it quickly faded when she thought to herself that Rainbow Dash was in love with Sorin, not her or anypony else. "We really should start getting ready though..." Fluttershy had started walking to the door.

"Wait... Come... Cuddle me a bit longer?... " Rainbow Dash wasn't ready to be left alone again.

"Okay." Fluttershy had walked back to the bed and held Ranbow in her legs and wings, almost completely encasing her as she wraped her own wings around herself under Fluttershy's.

Twilight had finally gotten over the shock of knowing that Celestia AND Starswirl the Bearded had enchanted the book that could be their only hope. It must have been a spell that only activates when somepony tries to read it, but it takes some time to start working. She had no clue, with those two working together, they could make entirely new planets and creatures to inhabit it! She finished her food and was about to leave her room to get ready for later that day when she heard crying from Luna's room, next to hers and went to go comfort her only to learn that Golden Rain was at fault for this, and wanted her to pay.

"Oh, Twi, what's up?" Golden Rain was still in the kitchen looking for the oats.

"You know EXACTLY what." Twilight had picked her up with her magic. "the next time you talk to Princess Luna better be a appology."

"Or what? Are you gonna hurt me?" Golden Rain asked mockingly. "I mean, come on, does she really deserve to be called 'princess' when she was gone for a thousand years, and can't even protect her own. si-" Her voice just cut out, and she tried talking again and nothing came out. Then she started to feel pressure all over her body as Twilight had started to squeeze her, slowly harder and harder.

"You aren't the only pony who knows how to torture others..." Twilight said very sinister-like, and stared Golden rain in the eye, and for once in her life, Golden rain was scared. Scared? No, terrified. Golden Rain knew that her torture was extreme and professional, but Twilight was Celestia's student, and Celestia had to force info out of other ponies somehow, and she always knew everything. There was a rumor that one pony was tortured for one week, and that was the longest amount of time she ever took, every other time was less than three days. Twilight had slowly started to let her down, and just before she could touch the ground, slammed her into the ceiling hard enough to make the bucket of oats on the top shelf fall to the counter below it, and threw her to the ground, leaving the room with her sprawled out and in pain, still unable to scream.

"SPIKE!? Could you clean up my mess in the kitchen please, I need to check over the maps and strategy again before we leave!" Twilight had walked over to the door that said "Study" and disappeared inside while Spike came flying down to the kitchen to find Golden Rain laying on the ground. He walked up to her and picked her up and set her on her hooves dusting her off asshe winced from his hand rubbing her now sore back.

"You know that you deserved that, right? You really should try to avoid Twilight for a while." Spike looked at her waiting for a reply and saw her trying but no sound was coming out. "I can lip read pretty well so you know." He said as she mouthed that she was going to murder Twilight before she had any chances. "And if you try I will hold you down for her." Golden Rain kept her mouth shut for the remainder of the one-sided conversation. "If you're wondering why I'm helping you after earlier, it's because I'm a very forgiving dragon. I was supposed to be with Gilda today..." Spikes voice seemed distant and it was more like he was talking to himself rather than Golden. "It would be our six months marker today. I ran into her along the outskirts of the Everfree Forest helping Zecora look for some plants... she was eating a mouse and shared it with me. First bit of meat I've ever had, and it was worth the trouble of catching. We started meeting regularly at the sameplace and she taught me how to hunt. One day I didn't show up because I was busy helping Twilight and she came in to check on me, that's when I decided to ask her to go on a date. When she said yes I got so excited, I accidentally burnt one of Twilights favorite Daring Doo books and had to replace it, so I didn't show for another day and Gilda was worried I forgot about our date, but I showed up in a suit and took her to Sugar Cube Corner for desert. Dinner that day was some mice topped with the leg of a boar I found with a pheonix egg on the side." Spike spaced off for a little bit untill Twilight had called for him and Golden Rain. "Oh, the spell should be worn off by now." Spike motioned a hand at his mouth to show he was talking about her voice and walked into the center room, shortly followed by Golden Rain.

To his surprise, everyone was at the front doors already, prepared to go fight and rescue everypony. He took a deap breath and said, "I'm ready whenevr you guys are." Twilight and Luna touched their horns standing face to face, and both of their eyes started glowing. they both stammped one hoof, then the building shook and the doors started opening. They went to the gate that Luna and Fluttershy had used just yesterday to get in. Outside, in the Everfree Forest, they could hundreds of glowing red eyes, and Twilight and Luna grabbed Spike and teleported all the way to the edge of the forest. Leaving only the three pegasi to take on the army of shadow-lings.

"Let's mess these guys up, Rainbow, Fluttershy, let's go." Golden Rains voice had come back, and just in time too. The fight for their life and their friends began now, and she still had some things she wanted to say before she dove face first into battle, one that she would probably lose.

"You're right Goldie, let's show them the true colors of pegasi. THEM I could make more rainbows out of than you could with earth ponies and unicorns combined." Rainbow gave a sinister smirk towards Golden Rain and then to Fluttershy, then the three of them crouched down and jumped forward, using their wings to propell them faster, diving, litterally, face first into what seemed like impossible odds.