If You Don't Draw First

“What have I done? Oh God, What have I done?”

Booker rushed through the empty streets of New York, his mind filled with fear and regret. A man had come to him with an offer he couldn't resist. But now, there he was, praying to god that it wasn't too late.

In the distance, he saw light coming from an alley, when he turned on it, his fears reached its peak. The man of the brown tuxedo, the one that had offered him the deal was standing in front of a glowing wall and seemed to be speaking to someone else. Behind him, a bearded man wearing a black gown was holding a little baby on his arms.

“There´s no time, you need to come through, the portal will close soon”.

A feminine voice commanded.

“No, it is too soon, we need to wait”.

The man with the tuxedo replied and turned to see Booker on the far side of the alley, the bearded man did the same and his face took a desperate expression.

“Hey, the deal is off! You heard me? The deal is off! Give her back!”

Booker screamed while running towards them. The man of the tuxedo passed through the portal and the bearded man followed behind him, but Booker was able to grab him by the arm.

“Give her back you son of a bitch!”

He struggled against the man trying to take the baby away from him.

“Turn down the machine! Turn it off!”

The bearded man screamed.

“No! Give me back my daughter!”

Booker shouted. In that moment, the time seemed to stop as he took out a gun from his vest placing it on the forehead of the bearded man and pulling the trigger. As the bullet passed through his head, the man fell backward freeing the baby from his grasp. The portal closed and Booker leaned against the wall hugging the baby against his chest. He stood there in the silence for some moments; however, something got his attention. With fear, he lifted the bulk in his arms just to find it empty, his baby wasn’t there.

“Anna?”

He asked as tears of anger ran down his face, he let the fabric fall to the ground realizing that he had lost her anyway. He placed his hands over her face and cried.

“I’m sorry… I’m so sorry…”

“Why? You didn’t do something wrong”.

Someone said to him and Booker felt a warm hand caressing his face. When he looked up, he found a beautiful woman in front of him. Like in trance, he stood up never parting his eyes from those deep blue eyes of hers. It took him a moment to realize who she was.

“Elizabeth?”

Booker asked, she smiled and denied it.

“No.”

She answered closing the distance between them and wrapping her arms around him.

“I’m Anna… I missed you so much…”

“A- Anna”.

A smile spread on Booker’s lips. Like if she was made of crystal, he caressed her hair with delicacy and returned the hug.

“How is this possible?”

“I couldn’t bring myself to kill you, not after all we've been through.”

“But that… that means that nothing has ended.”

“Not for me, but for you, this will be a new beginning, you are free now, and that’s what makes me happy, but also…” her voice took a sad tone. “This will be the goodbye for us”.

“What?”

Booker backed away from her.

“The world where you are is the only one without corruption from Comstock or the Luteces, you will be fine there.”

“Of all the universes, did you have to choose the weirdest?”

Both laughed at the question, but Elizabeth’s laughter died in an instant.

“It’s time for me to part Booker, and before you say something, the answer is no”.

“How can you say something like that and expect me to accept it? You said this is a new chance for me; if that’s the case; let it be a chance for both of us”.

“I can’t, there is still something I need to do”.

He noticed the fear on her words.

“Then let me help you, whatever it is, we will…”

She closed his lips with her finger.

“No, this is something I need to do alone; this will close the circle once it for all”.

“Anna, I can’t let you go, how am I supposed to live knowing that you could be in danger? There must be something I can do to help”.

“Yes, there’s something.”

She grabbed his hand and looked at him directly into his eyes.

“Promise me that you will never try to find a way back to me”.

“Anna… you know the answer”.

“Booker, please, you have to let me go”.

Those words pierced his soul, he was about to lose her again, and this time forever. Anna took her hands to her neck and took away the necklace she was wearing to give it to him. He looked at it and then to her.

“I have to go”.

“No, please, don’t leave me”.

He begged. Anna smiled and planted a soft kiss on his lips.

“Goodbye… dad”.

She turned around and walked away from him with tears on her eyes, moments later, she disappeared in the mist.

“Anna! Anna!”

He called her in vain, in the end; Booker was left alone in the dark.

***---***---***

The sun began to rise over the mountains bathing the earth in its light. Inside the library, Spike snored quietly on his basket; the bed at his side was already empty. In the basement, Twilight walked around Booker’s bed taking notes on a small notebook. She was excited of studying what she considered the greatest discovery of all history, a creature of which there weren’t any records and possible the only of its kind.

“The subject presents brown skin with only a thin cape of hair, his head being the part of his body with the biggest concentration of it. The build of his corporal structure seems to be muscular and presents many scars on it; note to self, remember to ask him about it".

Twilight said writing down on the notebook. She walked to a small table where she had placed some of the things that Booker was carrying on his clothes, taking the wallet with her magic, she opened it.

“Private detective, I think that means he is some kind of authority”.

She thought while reading the ID card inside the wallet. Next, she took a look to the coins and bills with those weird pictures of other creatures similar to him and noticed that it had numbers. While studying them, she didn't notice that Booker had started to move.

“Anna”.

Booker whispered and Twilight jumped scared by it. For moment she didn’t move, but her curiosity was her own weakness and finally she got closer to him. Twilight saw how he lifted his arm for a brief moment before it fell over the bed. With a little fear, she softly touched his arm.

“What are you? Where did you come from?”

She asked him. Twilight pressed her foot against his arm with more confidence and slowly ran it over its length until she was touching his face. By the first time, she took her time to study his factions. His face, although serene, showed the shadow of someone that has been battered by the life, like if he was carrying the charge of guilty over his shoulders.

Lost in her thoughts, she didn't noticed Booker’s hand rising over her head until it fell just above her ear and into her mane. She felt the hand going up and down caressing her neck, the sensation felt amazing and although her mind was racing with the idea of running away, she find herself embracing his arm with her fore hooves to keep it in place.

“Sparkle, what are you doing?”

“Whaaaa!”

Twilight felt her heart jump out of her chest, she fell to the ground with a blush spreading on her face; she was so immersed in the sensation of Booker’s caress that she didn’t heard Trixie coming down the stairs.

“Trixie? What… what are you doing here?”

“Well, the door was open and I called you, but when you didn't answer, I assumed that you were down here, did I arrived in a bad moment? Looks like you were enjoying yourself”.

Twilight’s blush reached her ears, Trixie smiled in a devilish way.

“I was… well… is not what it looks like”.

Trixie reached the table taking a look at Booker’s things.

“So, any idea of what kind of creature is him?”

The magician asked.

“Not yet, he looks like a minotaur, but there are huge differences between them”.

“I can see that”.

“I think we will have answers once he wakes up, Princess Celestia will be here later today, I need to prepare a report in case…”

“Anna!”

Booker stood up on the bed screaming the name of his daughter causing both mares to scream and take shelter behind the fallen table. He buried his face on his hands, Twilight and Trixie came out from their cover.

“Mr. DeWitt?”

The lavender mare asked with weak voice. Booker looked at them.

“So… I wasn’t dreaming?”

Both mares denied it. He sighed lying down on the bed.

“How… how do you feel?”

Trixie asked.

“How am I supposed to feel? What kind of stupid question is that?”

Trixie’s ears dropped.

“Hey, if it wasn’t for her, you would be dead already, we’re trying to help, there’s no need to be rude”.

Twilight intervened. He looked at her with anger

“How would you feel if you were stranded in a world where nothing seems to make sense?"

“Well, to be honest, you don’t make sense to us”.

“Like I give a shit”.

“That’s it, I’m done, you can come upstairs when your mood gets better”.

Twilight threw the notebook through the air and left the room murmuring something about using fire to burn him down. Trixie stood there for a moment looking at him.

“What?”

He asked angrily. Her horn shone with a blue aura, she placed Booker’s clothes on the bed and then turned around. He looked at her reaching the top of the stairs where she stopped.

“Is good to see you’re fine, I was worried for you, thanks for saving me”.

Booker looked at his clothes; they were clean and had been repaired. Then, he looked at his chest where some gauzes were covering the wounds caused by the timberwolf and recalled how he had got here.

“Well done Booker, what a way to start a new life.”

After saying that, he looked at his fist. He opened it and found the bird necklace that Anna had given to him causing him to laugh.

“Oh Anna, what am I going to do?”

***---***---***

There were tales that talked about a place of such magnificence that it could leave Canterlot Castle in shame. All these tales were lost in the time now and only a few could remember them. Yet, none of those tales did justice to its beauty.

The Hall of the Patriarchs was illuminated by the sunlight that entered through the windows at the top of its massive alabaster walls making it look like a giant diamond. There, on the center of the hall, a crystal alicorn of deep black mane and silver body awaited in silence. She knew she was in troubles due to her actions to save that old stallion from dying on the hooves of those insectoid creatures, but she just couldn't let that happen.

The door at the end of the hall opened slowly and an elder dragon entered into the room. There was something unusual about this dragon, though he had all the characteristics of any of his kind; his size was barely the double of the alicorn that was standing in front of him.

"Father".

Said the alicorn bowing her head with respect, the dragon used one of its claws to gently lift her face, her deep green eyes staring directly into those red eyes of the beast.

"What am I going to do with you, Seraphi?"

He spoke with serene voice; the alicorn looked away from him.

"Once more, you have disobeyed the most important rule of our kingdom and crossed the frontiers of the colony. I have told you the same so many times, there's nothing for you out there, only danger".

“I wasn’t in danger”.

She said in a whisper.

“What was that?”

“I said… I can take care of myself”.

“No, you can’t”.

“Of course I can, I killed those things thanks to my training, I saved that poor stallion’s life”.

The dragon stared at her with fear.

“Did he saw you?” He said worried.

“Well… I don’t know, I was chasing those creatures away… is that important?

“How could you be so careless? That’s the reason why you must stay here and never…”

Seraphi looked at his father, her rage growing with each word he said until she finally cut his words.

“Why do you still treat me like a filly? I know exactly what I’m doing, I don’t want to spend the rest of my life inside four walls, I want to see the world that lies beyond the mountains, I want to live”.

“You have a life here, one that will last for centuries to come, one on which you will not have to worry for anything”.

“But I’m a prisoner!”

Seraphi shouted, her father knew that in the end she was right about it.

“A prisoner in a land where I don’t even belong… I’m not even a dragon… not even a normal pony… what am I?”

She started to cry, the dragon reached her and hugged her softly; Seraphi buried her face on the soft scales of his chest.

“You are my daughter, and the most beautiful creation of this world, never forget that”

She returned the hug and both remained in silence for some minutes until he spoke again.

“I’ll tell you something, I’ll speak with the leaders of the clan, if they decide that the time has come, you’ll be free to go anywhere you want to”.

Her face showed joy after hearing him say that.

“Are you sure?”

“I’m sure.”

She smiled and kissed him on the cheek. He smiled as well before let her go. He saw her leave the room, in that moment; his face took a stern look.

“I’m sorry Seraphi, but I made a promise. You will never leave this place”.

***

With the dream of finally being able to leave the colony to know the world, Seraphi left the room with a smile from ear to ear, however.

“Problems with daddy again my little freak?”

A mocking voice said behind her, Seraphi turned around taking a defensive posture. Leaning against a column, a young black dragon played with his claws.

“That’s none of your business, Ridley”.

“Oh, did he ground you again? Well, is less than what you deserve for putting the colony in danger, again”.

“I said shut up you filthy lizard!”

Seraphi charged her horn and launched a blast of energy against him, but the energy did nothing and it just faded away after touching the dragon´s body. Ridley launched forward grabbing her by the neck and smashing her against the wall.

“Have you not learned anything in all these years? Dragons are immune to magic. Also, you shouldn't talk like that to your future ruler… and husband”.

He said in a perverse way while opening his mouth, his tongue licking against the alicorn’s neck. Seraphi felt repulse at his touch, using her four legs he kicked against him freeing herself from his grasp.

“I’ll never be your wife, I rather die”.

She spat him in the face and fled from there. Ridley laughed and wiped the saliva with his claw.

“You’ll see it Seraphi, you’ll be mine you want it or not!”

She didn't hear his threat. As she entered her room; she lay on the bed crying bitterly.

***---***---***

Booker was sitting across the table, in front of him; the lavender unicorn was ready with quill and paper to write down everything important that could come out from the row of questions. It didn't pass too long until Booker left the basement to ask for forgiveness, both mares told him that they didn't have grudge against him, after all, they didn't had taken into account the fact that he was still accepting the idea that he was now in a universe totally different and unknown to him.

After making peace, he asked if there was a place where he could take a shower, Twilight lead him to the bathroom on the second floor and giggled after looking at his face of surprise when he noticed the similarities between this new world and the earth, they had electricity, plumbing, radio stations and so many other things that made him feel nostalgic.

Now feeling refreshed, he was awaiting for Twilight to start. He saw the unicorn smiling from ear to ear, mumbling something to herself and could swear that her big purple eyes were shining.

“Does she always acts like this?"

He asked to Trixie, the cyan unicorn shrugged.

“Only when she’s about to learn something new, most of the time she’s in calm”.

Another voice answered and Booker looked at his right finding a small purple dinosaur with a tray filled with blue muffins sprinkled with what he thought were pieces of multicolor glasses.

“Wow, and just what the hell are you?”

“Not the best way to ask for the name of one but hey, I have no problems with that. My name is Spike and I'm a dragon".

Booker raised an eyebrow.

“Ha, if you're a dragon, I'm the Queen of England”.

“What?”

“Nothing Spike.”

“Oh, okay, would you like a muffin?”

Spike said presenting the tray to Booker who denied with the head. Spike nodded and sat on the other side of the table.

This world gets crazier at every moment. Booker said to himself.

“All right, let’s begin.” Twilight’s voice brought him back from his thoughts.

“What exactly do you want to know?”

“Everything”. She said clapping her hooves.

Shit. He thought.

“Okay, my name as you already know is Booker DeWitt and I’m a human from a planet named earth. Back there I lived in New York and I was part of the Pinkerton Agency until I left the force to work as a private detective, you know, people used to pay me to do some works for them, no big deal".

Twilight wrote all he said. “And, do you have any idea of how you got here?” She asked.

“Long story short, I gambled and got in troubles with the wrong people. One day a man came to me and offered to wipe away the debt if I did a job for him. I accepted and went to another city to fulfill the contract, something went wrong and I finished here, looking at the bright side, he was right, the debt got canceled".

He lied; they didn’t need to know more details about his troubled past nor even from Columbia’s horrors. For a moment he thought he was out the hook, until Twilight asked something else.

“While you were sleeping, you mentioned a name, Anna, who is she?”

Booker’s eyes went wide open. “I... let’s pass to other question”.

“Why, is something wrong?” Asked Trixie.

Don’t push it, “C’mon, make another question”.

He was starting to lose his temper, but they didn't take away the finger from the line.

“Is she somepony important to you?” Twilight pressed on.

“Please, another”.

“No, I want to know who and what was your relationship with her”.

Think Booker; say something or you will never take them off of you.

“She… she’s my daughter… I lost her when she was just a baby”.

He finally said. Twilight and Trixie looked at each other with regret.

“Oh, I didn’t… sorry for asking that”. The purple mare said in sad voice.

“It’s okay”.

He answered. An awkward silence fell between them. Trixie was the first to speak after that.

“Mr. DeWitt”.

“Call me Booker”.

“All right… Booker, Twilight didn’t believe me when I told her I saw you use magic, why don’t you show her?”

“I… I think I can do that, but don’t you think this can be a little risky? I mean, a new creature making weird things in a peaceful town? that sure can’t be good”.

“Believe me Booker; this town has seen so many weird things by now that you wouldn’t believe it, I bet that the villagers feel strange when nothing happens”.

With that said, the four of them headed outside the library. Booker stood in front of them with his hands in the air. With a snap of his fingers, a small flame appeared on the tip of them and a moment later, the fire spread to the rest of his hand. Twilight saw in awe how the fire disappeared and was replaced by black feathers. Another snap and his hand got filled with black crystals that emitted some kind of electricity, said crystals turned into ice, then into water, finally, his hand showed a green and yellow glow, a small swirl and the bloody effect of  bucking bronco.

“This is amazing! How can you have magic if you’re not a unicorn?”

“See, I told you he was special”.

“By Celestia, you need to let me have some samples to study them, c’mon give me a demonstration of what they do!”

“Hey, hold your horses”.

Booker said, but after realizing what he just had said, he burst in laughter. Both unicorns looked at him in confusion.

“What’s so funny? I have told you, we’re not horses, we’re ponies”.

Said Trixie. Booker tried to speak but he was laughing so hard that even his stomach started to pain. Finally, taking a deep breath his laughter died.

“I can’t remember the last time I laughed like this, anyway, what I was about tell you is that this is not magic, this powers are called vigors and serve as well as weapons and means of defense, all of them are very dangerous, and I hope to never use them again, unless it is necessary. Sorry, but I hope you can understand”.

Twilight pouted, but it didn’t have effect on him. Accepting the defeat she nodded.

“And, what about that beautiful shiny thing you have inside that weird brown thing?”

Spike asked, Booker knew that he was talking about the hand cannon.

“It’s another kind of weapon, one that you should never play with, let’s leave it like that”.

Spike shrugged, however, Twilight made a mental note to take a closer look at the said weapon, she was sure that she could take it away from him while he was sleeping tonight.

“We still have some time before Princess Celestia arrives later today to meet you, why don’t we go and get something to eat?”

Twilight asked them, Booker thought that this world may have a totally different kind of food, but he was hungry after all, this may as well serve him to know his new home a little more.

“Sound’s good to me. What about you Booker”. Said the magician.

“I´ll follow you”.

***

Thanks to god for this!

Booker almost drooled over the eggs and bacon served in front of him, the restaurant was crowded with ponies of all colors, there he noticed that there were three races, unicorns, pegasus and earth ponies, and of course, he was able to catch that some of them stared at him with curios eyes, yet they seemed to do it in a friendly way. Like Twilight had said, the villagers didn’t look frightened or uncomfortable around him.

Leaving those thoughts aside, he took the first bite of the meal and hummed, it tasted like glory for him. Back in Columbia when he stuffed himself with the food he found around, he just ate it all to recover forces, plus the effect of the bullet shield he had obtained from the Luteces, all the food didn’t have flavor or consistence, it only turned into energy.

While they were eating, in the building in front of the restaurant, a group conformed by three griffins and three unicorns stood in silence looking at the cartel above the door. Ponyville´s Bank, the five of them looked at each other, with a nod; the griffins went inside the building while the unicorns remained outside. First there were silence, then, a shot was heard followed by screams of terror. The ponies outside the building ran in fear looking for shelter, inside the restaurant, all the world took cover under the tables, all of them except Booker.

“Booker, what are you doing, get some cover”. Twilight whispered to him.

“Please, tell me you have some kind of police here”.

“Yes, the royal guards will arrive soon and will handle the situation, get down here”.

Booker was about to do it when he saw a group of guards arriving at the scene, however, one of the unicorns shouted something and one of the griffins came out the building with what seemed to be some kind of crank gun like those that the motorized patriots used to carry with them.

“You have ten seconds to surrender, drop your weapons or else we will have to use force against you!”

The captain of the guards told to the group with a megaphone.

“Go to hell!”

The griffin shouted and opened fire. The unicorns of the royal guard placed a shield in front of their comrades to protect them, but with horror Booker saw how the bullets passed through the barrier sending many of the guards to the ground. Vivid images of his battles on Columbia passed through Booker’s mid, this world had horrors too, and he was part of it now.

Twilight saw with fear how Booker rushed out of the restaurant, and getting closer to the window followed by Trixie, they saw how the guards started to return the fire with magic blasts while trying to take their wounded partners out of the line of fire.

“Look!”

Trixie shouted pointing her hoof towards the bank, Twilight and some of the ponies inside the restaurant looked at Booker. One of the unicorns noticed him and shot at him with his magic, to his surprise and that of the ones watching the scene, the magic made contact against Booker’s chest, but it faded in the air.

“He… he’s immune to magic?” Twilight said in awe.

Booker didn’t lose time and launched a blast of murder crows against the unicorn whom screamed in agony as the birds mauled his body and took away his eyes. The griffin saw this and turned his gun against the human, Booker summoned the yellow shield of return to sender and catch many of the bullets that came out of the gun before throwing them back against him. The griffin fell to the ground with his body filled with bullet holes.

“What the hell is that thing?!”

One of the remaining unicorns shouted in terror, a creature immune to magic and capable of catch naked bullets with his hands was something out of their league. He ran into the bank followed by his partner, however, this last one was grabbed by a tentacle made of water. Booker used it to bring it in front of him.

“Answer this and I’ll let you live, how many more are inside the building?”

“T- Three more, please, d- don’t hurt me?”

“You should have thought about that before attacking this place”.

Using the tentacle, Booker sent the unicorn flying towards the royal guards. After that, he went inside the bank. As he entered, he was received by a hail of bullets and ran to take cover behind a pillar; another griffin was barricaded inside an office on the second floor with another crank gun.

“I don’t know what kind of monster are you, but you better leave this place or else we shall kill you!”

Booker took a peek to the interior of the bank; there were ponies on the floor covering their heads, the unicorn was behind a wall on the other side of the second floor with a rifle waiting for him to make a mistake to blow his head off  and finally, the last of the griffins and the one that Booker was sure to be the leader, standing in front of the vault with a foal in his claw and a gun pointing to the little one’s head.

C’mon, let me see your eyes.

Booker’s hand glowed with a green light; he just needed to wait for the correct moment.

“Why don’t we talk this out? I bet we can make a deal”.

“You aren’t in a position to talk, you have no place in here, you’re not even a guard, you are just some weird creature in the wrong place at the wrong moment trying to be a hero”.

“You’re right in the part of the place and the time, but let me tell you something, if you don’t let the kid go, I’ll make you regret it”.

“I’ve had enough of this; kill the son of a bitch!”

The unicorn stepped out from behind the wall. Booker launched the possession blast towards him with a direct hit. The unicorn started to shoot against both his boss and the griffin inside the room. This last used the crank gun to kill him. Booker took the chance and taking out his hand cannon, he pointed towards the crank guy placing his head right in the middle of the sights of the gun, he pulled the trigger and the bullet pierced the griffin’s head.

For a moment, he thought all had ended, but a painful sensation like the sting of a bee made of fire on his left arm told him the contrary. The last griffin was still alive and had his gun pointed towards him, and was grabbing the little foal by his mane.

“You bastard, you ruined it all”.

The griffin spat out blood, he had a wound in his right side. Booker smiled.

“I warned you that if you didn't let the little one go, you would regret it”.

“Shut up! I’m going to kill him and then I’m going to kill all inside this damn place!”

“One… two…”

Booker started to count; the griffin screamed with fury and raised his gun. Although in pain, he was able to use bucking bronco sending the griffin into the air.

“Three.”

He pulled the trigger of the hand cannon ripping the head of the griffin from the rest of his body. The little foal ran towards a mare. She hugged him with love and tears of happiness running down her cheeks.

“Thank you, thank you so much sir.”

She told him, Booker nodded. Soon the rest of the ponies started to stand, some of them clapping their hooves and thanking him. Booker placed the gun inside his holster, asked if there were any wounded but was happy to hear that the robbers had only made shots of warning. After that he walked towards the exit, outside a bigger number of royal guards was waiting for him. As soon as he stepped outside, a roar of whistles and applause from the crowd received him.

“The place is clean guys, you take care of it”.

The guards nodded and entered the building. Booker sat on the stairs and the captain of the guards came to him.

“I still can’t believe what I saw, but I have to admit, you know some moves comrade, what’s your name?”

“Name’s Booker DeWitt”.

“Well Booker, we can use somepony like you in the force, why don’t you pay a visit to the headquarters to talk about it?”

“I’ll have that in mind”.

The pegasus nodded, but noticed blood dripping from Booker’s hand.

“You’re wounded!”

“The boss of these guys hit my arm, it will heal soon”.

“I need medical assistance here!”

The captain shouted and two ponies with a white hat over their heads came rushing towards him.

“I’ll let you in good hooves, I got work to do, hope to see you soon Booker”.

The pegasus did his farewell. While Booker was being attended by the paramedics, Twilight and Trixie appeared in front of him, while the magician had an expression of happiness, the purple mare seemed to still be trying to catch the idea of something.

“Booker, you’re hurt?”

“Is nothing Trixie, just a scratch”.

“Did… did you killed them all?” She asked tapping the floor with her hoof.

“I…”  Booker was lost of words for a moment. “There was no other option; someone else could have been injured”.

Trixie nodded, “don’t worry, I understand”.

“You… you’re immune… you’re immune to magic”. Twilight mumbled.

“Well, it seems that way, why are you so surprised?”

“It’s incredible! This makes you the second creature in this world that is immune to magic!"

“And the first one being?”

“Dragons! Oh I can’t wait to inform about this to Princess Celestia”.

I don’t know if I really want to meet her after what I have done here. He thought.

As they shared some other words, from the crowd, a green coated pegasus was looking at them. Moments later she walked away from the scene. It didn't took her long to reach an alley between two buildings were she stopped.

“Interesting”.

She spoke with a rather strange voice, like if she were two different beings.

"I think, is time to inform this to the hive".

The mare smiled showing two sharp fangs, her brown eyes turning blue without trace of pupils and flashing with a cyan shine for a brief moment.

***---***---***

Celestia and Luna sat in silence inside the carriage. The sun goddess was holding an old book with her magic as her sister looked outside the window.

“Luna”, Celestia said catching her sister’s attention. “Listen to this, according to the elder scrolls, while Sombra ruled without compassion, there was a pony for whom he cared for, her name was Silver Sapphire, a crystal unicorn. The tales tell that she was Sombra’s favorite maid, he treated her like if she was his most precious treasure".

“Tia, shouldn’t you be thinking in other things at the moment? Like the attack on Ponyville´s Bank?”

The younger alicorn replied, Celestia sighed.

“I know Luna, but for now there’s nothing else we can do, they have one of the attackers under custody, and I already sent a missive to the griffin ambassador asking him for a reunion to talk about the attack”.

“But what really has me on the edge is this nightmare; somehow I feel that it’s related with what Twilight talked about on her letter. Plus, did you read the description of the creature that killed the attackers and how he did it? It sounds like a piece taken out of a nightmare”.

“Yes… this creature is a mystery.” Luna replied. “Anyway, you were saying that this Silver Sapphire was Sombra’s marefriend?”

“Not exactly, the book has nothing about that, yet, it mentions that one day she disappeared, according to the date, it was one year before we fought against him, nopony ever saw her again”.

“And this comes into the matter because?”

“In my nightmare, I saw a crystal mare walking away from the kingdom, what if she was Silver Sapphire?”

Luna was about to say something when the carriage stopped, both goddesses saw that they had arrived to Twilight’s home. The guard walked to the door and opened it.

“It’s time to find out who's this Booker everypony talks about”.

Luna said descending from the carriage, Celestia gulped, she had fear, the question was why?

***

The door of the library opened and both goddesses were received by an excited Twilight.

“Princess!”

The lavender unicorn got closer receiving a nuzzle from both alicorns.

“Twilight, is good to see you again”. Celestia said.

“Yes, and you will not believe what I’m about to tell you, but first of all, I think you should meet somepony”.

Booker appeared in front of the princesses followed by Trixie. Luna looked at him with surprise. However, Celestia with eyes wide open remembered the dark silhouette she saw in the nightmare, her fear reaching its peak.

By the sun, it’s him!