The Investigation

"Dad, why is their a pony in the moon?"

"Well that's my doing. Skyla but she is no ordinary pony, she's an alicorn like you, me and your siblings. So is the one in the sun."

"But if your a good and wise king like everyone says. Why did you place them up there?"

"Because they brought death and destruction to the land. Would you like me to tell you the whole story?"

"Yes please."

"Okay, about 100 years ago. Days after you was born."

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Dear Auntie Celestia,
Shining and I have received news that a changeling hive is not far from the Crystal Empire and has been located, along with very dark, mysterious magic. We have sent some soldiers to investigate but they haven't returned. I ask that you come to assess the situation for yourself and in the meantime, Me and Shining will investigate personally.
Thank you.
Your Neice Cadence.

"Did you send the letter? my love" I said.

"Yes my dear" your mother said back.

"Then lets get going it will soon be dark."

To this day, I still honestly don't know why we didn't wait for a reply from Celestia or for her to come herself, but we did.

We gathered our soldiers and set out, we trotted for what felt like hours but finally we came to the cave, where the hive had been for the last few weeks. The whole area had been cleared of snow; in its place was this green goo and above was these menacing orange storm clouds. It was certainly work of changelings however the clouds are what confused me more than anything.

After the attack on Canterlot all of the guards and soldiers had been taught all about changelings. In any and every book, I had read on changelings, none of them had said anything about orange clouds.

But nevertheless we ventured inside to check how many; if any changelings was in this hive. For a while it seemed abandoned yet as we went deeper, there was a chittering noise and the bussing of wings. At that point I was done, we knew they were here. we could turn back and plan our next move to eradicate them. your mother on the other hoof wanted to go and investigate more! Why I don't know? It seemed curiosity got the better of her.

"Cady, lets get out of here before we are discovered." I whispered.

"Wait shiny, I want to know if they have a leader."

"Darling are you sure that's a good idea."

"It's okay you go back, if you want. I will quickly check and be out." and with that she continued down into the hive.

Now a smarter stallion would have gone back to the entrance and waited, I mean your mom was an alicorn; she could take care of yourself but I obediently quickly and quietly followed. We got down to what must have been the main 'hallway' with about 10 or more different turns, that's when your mother finally gave in on defeat and we started to trot back to the entrance.

Unknown to us at the time that we had been watched the entire time...

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"Wait if you knew you was being watched why did you do it!"

"Skyla I didn't know that until I was told."

"Who told you."

"The one who was nearly ready to start her attack."

"WHOOOOOO?!"

"Unless you quit asking 'who' it was, I cant carry on. You will find out. When the time is right, just like I did."

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The trot back to the entrance seemed quicker paced, as we reached the entrance to the cave we found it was dark. Although it was dark every where else, the clouds near the cave seemed to make it almost look like day. We decided it was best to leave and return to the empire. Leaving investigating the clouds to Celestia's better judgement.

When we eventually got back to the palace, the maids had put you to bed and your older siblings had retired for the night.
We checked over the place with the maids and guards and then retired ourselves for some well deserved sleep but nothing could have prepared us for what happened the following day.

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"Your highness."

"Yes guard."

"WHAT HAPPENED!"

"Hang on Skyla, what is the problem Flash."

"A diplomat wishes to move their time to see you tomorrow."

"Well tell them, if they can't make it then we will reschedule it another time."

"Yes your highness."

"and see to it I'm not disturbed unless absolutely necessary Flash."

"Yes your highness."

"Okay sorry Skyla where was I."

"You wasn't prepared for what was to come the next day."

Author's Note

Hope you enjoyed this first chapter.