The War of Darkness

Illusion was walking down the hallways. He was on his way to his bedroom to get a gift for his marefriend, Claire.

All of a sudden, he heard a familiar voice say "There you are Illusion!" Illusion turned around to see that it was none other than his mother Princess Celestia.

"Hello mother, how are you today?" Illusion asked politely

"No time to explain dear, just get your royal regalia and meet us in the throne room . The Minotaurs are here." Celestia said.

"Why didn't they notify us?" Illusion asked.

"I don't know, but I know it's not a friendly visit, he's brought his comanders too"

"WHAT?!" Illusion shouted, clearly shocked.

"Don't shout Illusion.just put on your regaila and come down to the throne room now. Your sister and the rest of the royal family are waiting." Celestia said in a stern voice.

Illusion's little sister, Gaia was a human. Her skin was the same color as Discord's fur below his neck.  This was because his grandmother, Discord's mother was a human while his father was a draconequus. She is currently youngest captain of the Canterlot royal guard while Valiant Heart is the captain of the royal guard of the Crystal Empire. She was only 19, while he was 23.

Illusion snaped his claw, and he appeared, wearing his regalia. What do they want? Illusion thought as he teleported to the throne room.

The Minotaurs and ponies were on thin ice with each other for a very long time. The only thing that was keeping them from declaring war on one another was the peace treaty signed by Princess Celestia of Equestria and King Golden Sword of Minotaurus after the war between the Minotaurs and the ponies. The Minotaurs declared war on Equestria, because he wanted to seize some goods from Equestria, like silk, and spices. The ponies dominated the Minotaurs, because the minotaurs may be strong, but at that time their civilization was new, so they didn't have many soldiers while Equestria did. The king then sent a letter to Celestia, saying that war was taking them nowhere and for them to end this war. The king did want to fight, but at this rate the ponies would win and the minotaurs would go extinct. He was requesting peace. Celestia agreed, and they forged a peace treaty. Equestria and Minotaurus had been great allies since then. Celestia even sent more soldiers to Minotaurus to apologize for the damage her soldiers had caused, even though it was Minotaurus who declare war on Equestria in the first place. The king, then felt guilty and apologized as well. He also sent some weapons to Equestria seeing as they specialized in making weapons. They had established trade shortly after that. Minotaurus and Equestria were on great terms since then. It was not until King Sterling came to power 20 years ago that things began to change. He wasn't your average ruler. He was snobby, arogant and very spoiled by his father the deceased King Silver Paladin. He was also racist.  He didn't like hybrids and other species and thought minotaurs were above everypony else. He is on thin ice with all of Minotaurus allies, mainly Griffonia. The only thing stopping them from telling him this was his army. If they were to say it right to his face he would just declare war on their country right then and there. Since Minotaurus army had grown over the centuries it was now competing with Equestria, who had the largest army.  Every kingdom's ruler may hate him, but they would do anything to avoid a preventable war. Unlike King Sterling, they put their subjects before themselves.

Once Illusion arrived, he saw everypony was present. His parents, sister, aunts Luna and Twilight as well as his cousins Nidra, Starburst, and Night Light Jr.

Gaia was a human with skin the color of discord's fur, she had a black mane [or hair for humans] with blue streaks in it tied back into a ponytail and hazel eyes. According to Discord, she is an exact replica of his deceased mother Aria. If Gaia didn't have those streaks in her hair, she wouldn't even be considered Princess Celestia's daughter.

King Sterling and his comanders, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Princess Twilight Sparkle, Prince Flash Sentry, Prince Discord and Prince Supernova were currently in the throne room. Him, Starburst, Night Light Jr and Nidra were all wearing their royal regaila. Their regalia was silver like all the royal children. Everyone's [with the exception of Gaia because she can't get a cutie mark since she is a human and Night Light Jr who didn't have his yet] regalia had their cutie mark in the middle, made with colorful gems to match the colors in their cutie mark. Gaia was wearing her armor. Her armor was gold with a yin and yang symbol on it. Her helmet looked like Captain Shining Armor's helmet, except it was gold and the hair in it was black with blue steaks. She was currently keeping a watchful eye on the door to the throne room.

Suddenly, the door opened, revealing a rather displeased King Sterling, his expressionless comanders, one was green , another was a red female and the last one was a blue female with a red, orange and yellow mane that looked exactly like Spitfire's mane. A rather annoyed Princess Celestia,  Princess Luna, Princess Twilight Sparkle, Prince Discord, Prince Supernova and Prince Flash Sentry.

I highly suggest for you to reconsider Princess Celestia, King Sterling said. You have such a beautiful kingdom. After that monster you call a sister and that monsterosity you call a husband almost toke over Equestria I would hate to destroy it, but if you don't give back that land you call call Hoofington I will have no other choice.

Discord glared at King Sterling, his eyes filled with hurt and anger Celestia held his claw and gave him a sincere look,. Luna was also very offended by the comment King Sterling just made. She leaned against Supernova, who draped his wing over her, pulling her close. He was very mad. Nidra, Illusion and Gaia gritted their teeth in anger. They knew their parents didn't like talking about their evil days. To say that in front of their children was nothing, but disrespectful.

After five minutes of awkward silence, Twilight spoke up "How dare you! They have done more for their kingdom then you ever have. Who even made you king to begin with?!"

"Says the wanna be princess." Sterling sneered.

"Hey Princess Twilight earned her title and her rank amongst Equestrian royalty. She even saved this kingdom, with the help of her friends more than once!" Flash said outraged.

"She may have, but you didn't." Sterling argued back.

Flash glared at Sterling with pure hatred. Starburst was about to attack him, before Gaia used her arm to block her. She took her helmet off and gave Starburst a look telling her to stop. Gaia then took a step forward and said.

"Look, no matter how much you whine, argue or insult us we will not hand over Hoofington to the likes of you." Gaia said.

"Mark my words monkey girl, I will get Hoofington back...by any means necessary. Come on Blaze, Blitz lets leave." Sterling said

"Yes sir." They said in unison, but not before glaring at the royals.

After King Sterling and his comanders left Celestia spoke up

"I'm sorry you had to see that children" she apologized.

" No need to apologize aunt Celestia. Just who does he think he is, insulting mother and uncle Discord like that. We should have him kicked out of Canterlot." Nidra said.

"I agree." Illusion said.

"We couldn't, no matter how much we wanted to. He would just bug us more, until we heard him out." Luna said

"According to my records, The green minotaur is Commander Blaze and the red one is Commander Blaze. I would tell you what they were famous for, but I don't want to scar you guys for life." Gaia said

"Okay everypony, lets take some time to relax and get over this incident." Twilight said.

As much as Illusion and the other royal children [minus Gaia] wanted to ask their parents and Gaia about the incident, it was clear that they didn't want to talk about it right now.

"Okay." They all said in unison.

"I'll ask mom and dad about it later" Illusion whispered quietly so the others couldn't hear him.