Chapter 2: Dream of a memorie (Part 1)

                                                    Chapter 2: Dream of a memorie (Part 1)

Princess Celestia was sleeping in her bed. Suddendly she heard a loud noise, as if something had exploded. She lifted her head. Now she heard even more: Ponys running around! She could hear their hooves on the corridors of the castle. And shouts. They shouted loudly. Very loudly. As if they wanted to wake up the whole castle.

“Celestia? Is something wrong?“, a voice asked next to her.

A very familier voice. Suprised she turned around. Next to her, her sister Princess Luna lay. With half-way closed eyes she looked at her. But something was diffrent. She was smaller than usual. To be specific she looked like a filly. Celestia looked down her own body for a moment. She was a small filly again, too.

“But how is that possible?“, she asked herself.

“Is something wrong?“

“I-I don’t know.“

Her voice sounded young again, too. But that wasn’t the only thing not right: The room, the bed, the window, everything reminded her of her childhood when she lived in a castle on the other side of the Everfree Forest. And something else wasn’t right, too. The light. No doubt, it was midnight. But everything was bright, just as i fit was day. To be specific, the light gave everything a tone of red. A blood-like red. She opend her eyes fast. Something had flew nearby her window. She listend tensly. Something else joined the running and shouting. A ringing. The ringing of bells. Somepony rang some big bells. She remembered: In the castle Luna and her lived together with other alicorns, like their parents, and Starswirl the bearded, her teacher and care taker, there was a huge tower with big bells which were ring if their was an emergency. But which emergency? Fire? Earthquake? Or – She stopped. Over the whole noise somepony had shouted a word. A single word. Her and Lunas eyes wided themself. Their hearts run faster. Goose bumps crawled over their backes when they heard it. The word. The word which had ment death for many ponys before. The word which makes everypony freeze, even alicorns.

An AliKnight, an alicorn with an armor over its whole boddy, stood at the top of the tower with the bells . He looked has he just has fighted. A wing was in an unnatural position. All over his body, there were wounds. One leg was broken. His armor was nearly destroyed. He took a deep bref and shouted the word again. It resounded through the night. Everypony awakend through it. When hearing the word, many froze because of fear. The AliKnight viewed over the edge of the tower. Something dark crawled to the top. To him. He heard that something came from the roof. He whispered:

“Harmony for eternity.“

A last time he took a deep breath. His horn glowed. He used the spell to inpower his voice. He wided his eyes, began to look seriously und and shouted as loud as if he wanted to reach all of Equestria:

“CHANGELINGS!“

Then they attacked him. Dozen of them. He could fire one magical blast befor there were forced crys of pain and in the end just silent coming from the tower. The same time an uncountable number of Changelings in full battle armor attacked the castle.

Celestia and Luna had heard from the Changelings befor. It’s said they are creatures out of pure black magic. They were shapeshifters who appeared in a Hive with Queen Chrysalis on the top. Like alicorns, they have wings and horns but despite Chrysalis no Changeling managed to use its magic for more then shapeshifting and some magical blasts. They eat love from ponys to become more powerful. Houndreds of kingdomes have fallen because of them and their number grow fast. But up to now they hadn’t attacked more then three alicorns at a time. They were seen near the castle multiple times but retreated when the AliKnight attacked. So why are they attacking a castle with thousands of alicorns? She was interupted in her thinking when Luna shouted

“DUCK!“

jumped towards her and both of them fall out of the bed next to the door. No second to late. A Changeling bursted through the window into their bed which didn’t survive it. The Changeling straightened up to his full height. It looked at the two with a scary grin. Celestia and Luna moved backwords to the door. The Changeling closed in more and more. Then he jumped towards them, but the two sisters managed to get out of the way. The Changeling hit the door, which let to the fall of the door out of its hinges into the floor. The two used this opportunity to run into the floor to the room next tot hem, the room of their parents. The door stood open. Whithout even checking whether someone was in the room they ran into it and screamed:

“Mother! Father! Changelings!“

But the room was empty. According to their missing armors they are already in the fight. Celestia and Luna stood in the middle of the room rigid because of their fear, when they heard moving behind them. The Changeling stoot in the door. The two sisters turned around. Now he looked very angry. Celestia and Luna sumed up all of their courage and fired a concentrated blast of magic. But the Changeling just put his head aside and the blast hit the wall in the floor where it left a small crack.

“It’s no use. We aren’t powerful enough.“, Luna realized fearful.

They hugged themself, closed their eyes and cowered themself together when the Changeling jumped towards them with opend mouth. But befor he reached them a white magical blast hit him and throw him out of a window. Celestia opend her right eye. Starswirl the bearded stood in the floor. He weard his hat, cape as well as a saddlebag.

“Are you two okay?“

“Y-yes. Thanks, Master Starswirl.“

“Good. Come with me. I will bring you to a safe place. When there is one Changeling, onehundred aren’t far away.“

He put them on his back. This way they run down the floors and stairs to the basement with Starswirls laboratory in it. On the way many Changelings broke through doors, windows the higher floors or even walls trying to stop them. But Starswirl managed to stop each of them. Reaching the basement Starswirl ran across the room to a wall and pushed a stone which opend a secret tunnel. While they ran through the Changeling-free tunnel, Celestia asked:

“Master Starswirl, why are the Changelings us now? I thought they don’t attack more then three alicorns a time!“

“Normally, yes. But today is no ordanary night.“

They reached the end. Starswirl pushed another stone. After coming out Starswirl pointed to the moon. The two sisters looked up. Celestia couldn’t believe what she saw: The moon was red like blood.

“That’s the so-called Bloodmoon, an unexplanable and rare natural phenomenon which appears in unequal distances. For some reasons during its time dark magic becomes more powerful. Since Changelings aren’t just users but creatures out of black magic it makes them powerful enough to attack a whole castle of alicorns. Luckyly with the disappearing of the Bloodmoon its effect and the Changelings will vanish, too.“

Starswirl ran into the wood. Some Changelings who found them followed them. Dozens of them. And they came closer.

“Reach into the saddlebags!“

Celestia and Luna reached into them and each of them took out a bottle. On it they could read the words

“Hoovemade smoke“

They threw them to the ground. Clouds of smoke formed themself. The Changelings were very confused at first. They hit each other and the trees. That gave the three ponys more time. Starswirl stopped befor the entrance of a cave.

“In their! Quick! And don’t make any kind of noise!“

“And what about you?“

“I will distract them. Wait in their until I come back.“

Celestia and Luna nodded. They entered the cave and hid behind a rock. Starswirl took some clay out of his bag and formed some copys of the sisters using his magic. At last he used a spell to color the clay in the colors of the sisters. The copys propably wouldn’t withstand a closer look but while running the Changelings would take their time to realize that they had been tricked. Hopefully. Starswirl continued running. Some time later the Changelings followed him. Suddendly one Changeling landed befor the entrance of the cave. He pinched his eyes together and closed in to the rock Celestia and Luna were hiding behind. Celestia‘s and Luna‘s heart beates became more frequently.

“This is the end.“, Luna whispered while the Changeling came closer with his sharp teeth.