Solar Child: The Original Chapters

Solar Child

Chapter Twelve

Written by Bakmah Genesis

        Cadence stood aways back from Celestia as she paced back and forth, waiting for the tracking spell to finish.  Needless to say, she was pretty much on edge.  She was starting to put a decent sized rut in the floor.

      "Damnit!  Why is this spell taking so long?" she yelled out in frustration.  She glared at the currently spinning holographic globe in the center of the room.  Cadence sighed.

      "Tia, you can't expect immediate results, especially if you cast it in the state you are in.  You will have to wait." As soon as she finished, Celestia whipped around and glared at her.

      "How can you be so calm, Cadence?  My daughter is out there with ponies who intend to kill her and I'm standing here waiting for a spell to find her.  How can you be calm?"  Tears ran down her face.  Cadence scooted closer to her will keeping enough distance to dodge any attacks.

       "Because I know she is a smart child.  We also can't help her if we go in there and murder everypony on first instinct."

       "She is right, Tia." said a voice in the ends of her mind.  She recognized the voice instantly.

       "Lulu?"

      "That would be my name."

      "How are you talking to me?"

        "Easy, you are day dreaming."

       "I guess that makes sense."

       "Of course it does.  Anyways, Cadence is right. You cant go in as Solar Flare and kill on sight.  Kill when needed and take as many prisonors as possible including the leader of the group.  at least do this for Twi.". Celestia sighed as she saw her point.

        "Alright.  Once I find out where she is I'll just take prisioners.  Hopefully I will have enough to find them guilty."  The globe stopped spinning and zoomed in on Equestria.  It zoomed in a second time on the southern edge. With one more zoom it stopped at an abandoned outpost.  Celestia laughed darkly.

        "It's always the outpost.  Lets go and get my daughter."

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        Twilight bit into the small piece of rock as her bloodied hooves slide out of the shackles.  She whimpered and removed the shackles from her hind legs.  Once completely free, she struggled to her hooves and walked over to the door of the cell.  The whole while she was trying to fight off her anxiety, trying not to let it take her over again.

      She grabbed a medium sized rock from the crumbling walls and bashed it against the guards head.  She yelped and stepped back, instinctively spilling out a string of apologies.  After getting herself together, she grabbed the keys and unlocked the door and the ring on her horn.

       Once free, Twilight walked down the hallway.  She swayed side to side as if she just got done drinking a bottle from her mothers 'secret' cellar.  She tried to run through her mind, trying to figure out why this was happening to her.  She looked down at the blood covering her hooves.  She was, losing blood and fast.  She probably didn't have long until she lost consciousness.

        She soon found a side exit, the door was clear and not far down the hall.  She just had to make it to the end and she would be free from this hell.  She had to do it for her mother.  She had no choice.  She was not going to let her mother suffer because of her.

        She heard a loud explosion and shouts come from the front of the building.  She wearily turned her head to the noise.  Her eyes widened when she heard one voice over all the others.

      "Where is my daughter?!"  Twilight nearly cried as she heard the voice.  She called out as loud as she could, her voice hoarse from her screaming.  It seemed to work as the screams and explosion doubled and got closer to her.  She gasped as she saw what ca,e around the corner.

      Dressed in golden Armour was a white alicorn whose mane and tail were alit with blue flame.  It's eyes were her mothers lavender but its pupils were slits as if it was a dragon.  Upon seeing her, the flames died down to a rainbow mane and its pupils became normal orbs once again.  There stood her mother, covered with blood that was not her own.

     Her mother gave a weary smile and was about to approach her when she was tackled to the ground by three stallions.  One of them was the grey one from earlier.  The stallion pounded repeatedly on Celestia's horn, making the alicorn disoriented and slightly confused from the attacks.  Twilight sat in the corner, shut down in fear.  Her eyes wide and watery, never leaving her mother.  She couldn't take it.  She had to help her mother.

       She screamed, placing her hooves on her head and bellowing out a dealing sound.  Her mane and tail became a pure black.  Her coat was soon a dark purple.  A pair of wings sprouted from her back.  When she opened her eyes her eyes were darker then her coat, almost black and her pupils slits.

       Her horn glowed in a black aura.  The three stallions were picked up and thrown across the hall.  This only got the attention of more guards and made her the main target.  They ran full force towards her, weapons raised and ready to strike.

       "Leave me alone!" Her voice wasn't even normal.  It was adult mare.  It was a demented adult mare.  Her horn glowed again and did more then send them back.  Some were struck dead by lightening, some killed by their own weapons, and some were sent through the walls.

       Celestia placed a wing over the demented version of her daughter.  Slowly, the darkness vanished from the filly, revealing her wounds in full light.  As soon as she was again in full control, she slumped over into her mothers embrace.  Cadence walked around the corner and found the two.  She rushed to Celestia's side.

      "I think I know what I'm going to do, Cadence." said Celestia as she placed her daughter on her back.  Cadence cocked her head at her.  "Until the time is right, or at least until the alicorn inside her awakens, Twilight Solar was killed before we could save her."  Cadence stared at her in shock.

     "Celestia, ponies know what she looks like.  They would figure out she is still alive sooner or later."

     "True.  That is why she will be staying inside the castle away from the public.  After a few years, we will let her out and have her go by a different name.  Like I said, until she is ready, I don't want her to be the daughter of one of the most powerful ruler in Equestria."  She sighed and looked back at the unconscious figure of her daughter.  "I'm scared to think about what kind of trauma she will expire nice from this."

      "This is twice I let someone take her away from me.  If stating her dead to the public and keeping her hidden away for a few years is what it takes, then so be it.  I can't lose her.  Not her too."  With that she walked out of the building and into the sunlight.  With a flash of light, her, Twilight, and Cadence all disappeared only to arrive in the castle medical wing.