Days To Come

As Shining Armor and I walked the halls of Canterlot Castle, there was an awkward silence between us. Then he must have decided to speak up.

"So... It's been a while since I've seen you." He said trying to be friendly.

"Yeah, I guess I've been really busy." I tried to answer.

We haven't seen each other in a year, which is a long time compared to seeing him time and time again with my friends.

As I was thinking to myself, I didn't notice him stop in front of a larger door, and almost bumped into him.

He took no notice however since he was talking to one of his guards outside the door.

"Come on Twily." He called behind his shoulder for me to follow.

As I stepped in, I noticed it really doesn't look to be any kind of barrack I've been to. It has a table in the center, with paintings on the walls... Kinda looks like a  conference room.

"Hello Twilight.  Sorry I didn't give you better notice, but this happened so suddenly." Princess Celestia said with a monotone voice. As she said that, I could see the determination in her glare.

"It's okay. So where is Princess Cadence?" I asked as I noticed there is one less Alicorn in the room.

"Oh yeah. She still had duties to take care of back at the Crystal Empire. So she had to stay." Shining Armor replied as he was taking a seat at the table.

As I went to get myself seated next to Celestia, I noticed there are a lot of official looking ponies in the room.

There was Mayor Mare, which I noticed first. I haven't seen her since I left Ponyville.

Then there was Spitfire. The captain of the Wonderbolts.

The rest I couldn't recognize. Celestia and Luna usually handles politics while they wouldn't care if I popped in one time or another. But then again, I'm worried of embarrassing Celestia and the whole monarchy if I make a wrong move. So I let them handle those matters.

Celestia gave me a knowing look, "These are all representatives from each city in Equestria." She started.

"This fellow pony next to you is Dusk Glide. He is a rep. from Baltimare." She pointed to a stallion with an indigo mane and blue fur. As she pointed to him, he gave an acknowledged nod.

"The pony opposite of you is Sapphire Sky. She is the rep. from Las Pegasus."

"Over in the corner, we have Rocky Valley. He is the  rep. From Dodge Junction."

"Over there," She pointed with here muzzle to the other corner. "Is Storm Glow. He is a rep. from Cloudsdale."

"And over there, is Misty Apparition." She pointed again towards the double doors from which I came in. "She's the rep. from Van Hoover."

"And the last two are from Fillydelphia, and Manehattan. Their names are Radiant Morning, and Blaze Night."

"Then you know the other two. Mayor Mare, and Sheriff Silverstar." She pointed over to the left side of her.

"If you're finished Celestia, I would like to continue." Dusk Glide interrupted.

"Yes. You can continue." Celestia replied

Dusk Glide then continued his speech. "Now the real discussion starts..."

As Dusk Glide continued, I started to wonder why I was here to begin with. Sure I knew a lot about military tactics from my books, but I'm just not familiar with them. I couldn't say anything for the fear of embarrassing Celestia. I just sit calmly while the veterans spoke.

"-And on top of that, we don't even know where these traitors are. They could be among us for all we know." Dusk Glide finished.

"Are you saying my own men could be TRAITORS?!" Shining Armor raised his voice at that.

"No one is saying your men are traitors. But we still have to be cautious." Rocky Valley said with his Dark brown mane sticking out along with his yellow coat.

"What should we do next? Storm Glow asked his now listening audience. "We can't just sit here doing nothing!" He stomped his hoof on the table, silencing the smaller murmurs. With his white coat and grey mane giving him a ghost like appearance. He pointed his other hoof in Spitfire's direction. "Spitfire. Have you gathered up the rest of your Wonderbolts yet?"

"Soarin is out already gathering them all." Spitfire reported.

"Well that's good. At least we won't have to worry about the Airforce." Misty Apparition commented with her always optimistic attitude.

I liked her the most out of the representatives because she is always perky. That, and her gold mane and white coat makes it easy to point her out.

"But, there's one more thing-" Blaze Night began.

"Sir!" A guard ran into the war room only to be stopped by Shining Armor. "What's the meaning of this? What could it be this important to interrupt the meeting?!" Shining Armor ordered.

"Sorry to interrupt but, we captured a traitor from Luna's royal guard a while ago. Now he wants to speak!" The guard answered.

"Bring him in here at once!" Shining Armor commanded.