I awoke to the sunlight hitting my eyes which made me scrunch up my eyes. I move my wing over my head to block out the light and groaned. I rolled over and opened one of my eyes to see a stuffed pony Twilight staring at me, we stared at each other for a bit.

“You’re lucky to be an adorable stuffy, the last thing that surprised me in bed naked got his nose broken and a few missing teeth.” I said to the stuffy. I got up and stretch a bit and looked around. I saw that Nyx wasn’t in the room so I guessed that she was somewhere in the building. I went and put on a dark blue shirt the roman numeral of three that was burning and a pair of cargo shorts and went out of the room just to see Nyx floating down from a cupboard with a box in her hands, she didn’t look like that she notice me. I walked over to her and grabbed the box.

“Hey!” She yelled and spun around to look at me.

“Morning,” I said to her. I went to open another cupboard that holds the plates and bowls. I pulled out two of the bowls and began to pour cereal in them.

“That was rude.” Nyx huffed at me. I shrugged and opened the fridge and got the milk and filled both bowls up with it. When I was done I put the milk away and got some spoons and walked over to the table and sat down. Nyx sat across from me and pushed the bowl over to her as she glared at me. I raised my eyebrows at her as I put a spoonful of food in my mouth.

“Wuff,” I asked her. I saw her cross her arms at me.

“You know that it’s rude to talk with a mouth full of food.” She told me. I swallowed and stuck my tongue at her. We eat for a bit as I felt my body wake up a bit more.

“So, sleep well last night?” I asked her. She looked at me and gave me a small nod.

“Yeah, umm sorry about last night it’s just-” I stopped her with a wave of my hand.

“It’s fine, I understand that you don’t feel comfortable sleeping in a different place without something that’s somewhat familiar to you,” I told her. She stared at me for a moment.

“What do you mean?” She asked. I leaned back and looked at the ceiling for a minute.

“Well, I used to live in an orphanage for my whole life and when I got old enough to travel I snuck out of the place and go traveling, sure I didn’t go far the fairest I went was a couple states over but they would find me and bring me back.” I looked at her as she was staring at me. I realize that I was getting off track.

“What I’m trying to say is that when I was traveling I couldn’t sleep that well most of the time but I got used to it.”

“What do you mean that you got used to it? Wasn’t the orphanage your home?” She asked. My lips made a straight line on my face as I looked away.

“That place would never be my home.” I said out loud with venom. I blinked and looked back at Nyx as she was looking at me worried. She looked at she said something that she shouldn't.

“I-I didn’t mean to say that, I just-” I sighed and rubbed my eyes.

“No Nyx it’s fine, it’s just that I never liked orphanages and it’s not as fun as they say it to be,” I told her.

“Sorry…” Nyx whispered. I frowned and looked at my bowl. Great Blake you made a thirteen year old sad, time to change topics.

“Umm so… do you want to talk about?” I asked her. She looked at me and tilted her head as she was lost in thought.

“I have to ask, are we cousins or sisters?” She asked. I stared blankly at her, ummm….

After breakfast Nyx went to school as I got ready for the day for the pub. After a few hours cleaning the place up and prepping the food I went out to get some coffee and the newspaper. I sat down at one of the tables and read the big bold words on the front of the front page.

Missing Ponies still Missing!

Total count is closing in the hundreds.

I frowned at that, kidnapping? Really. I guess they don’t show you everything in the show. I finish my coffee as went to open the pub up.

After a few hours of working and getting a bit more customers than before, seems to be that there’s some rumors that my pub makes fantastic food and kicked out two snobby nobles that are raising hell in Canterlot. Well it’s not my problem now. After finishing up the last meal I heard the front door open and turned to see the CmC walking in and heading up to the counter.

“Hey there you three how it going.” I asked them. They smiled at me.

“We’re doing good Blake, how about ya?” Applebloom asked me. I shrugged at her.

“Oh you know, doing the same old stuff.” I told her. The other two looked around at the place and seeing that there’s more ponies here.

“Business booming huh.” Sweetie bell said. I again shrugged. Scootaloo was looking around the place, I saw that she had a black eye. I walked around and kneel down to her and looked at it.

“What happened to you?” I asked her. She then pushed my hand away.

“It’s nothing,” She said to me.

“Nothing! Scoots you got punch by Diamond Tiara’s goon!” Sweetie said to her. I frowned a bit.

“I said it’s nothing so it’s nothing.” She said to her. She looked at me and saw me staring at her, she then shifted.

“What happened?” I asked her again. She sighed at me.

“I heard Diamond twerp bad mouthing Nyx and well I kinda lost it,” She told me.

“Well ah told ya not to listen to her now did ah,” Applebloom said to her. Scoots looked at her angrily.

“Hey! Nyx is my sister and no pony bad mouths her.” She yelled at Applebloom. She put her hands up.

“Hey ah’m just saying,” She told her. Scoots was about to say something but stopped as I put my hand on her shoulder.

“Now listen here, I know that Diamond Twerp is a brat but there are times that you need to ignore the rest of them.” I told her. She was going to argue but I put my hand up. “Now that being said, how much damage did you do to her?”

She looked at me with a confused look. “I ummm gave her a broken nose and some broken teeth.”

“Ha! That’s it, you know that first time got into a fight I broke the guy's face.” I told Scoots.

“Wait you broke some stallion face? What made you do that?” Sweetie asked me.

“Oh he was making fun of me and saying a lot of rude things about me that wasn’t true.” I told her. Appleboom frowned at that.

“Hey, where’s that whole ‘there are times that ya need to ignore the rest of them.’ deal?” She asked me.

“Well he also punched me in the face as well, so it became fair game.” I told her. I saw that Scootaloo was looking around the pub as if she was looking for someone.

“Hey, what are you looking for Scoots?” I asked her. She looked at me with a somewhat worried look.

“I was seeing if Nyx was here, she didn’t come to school today.” She told me. I blinked at her, she did head off to school today I saw her leave. I was about to asked her what she was talking about I heard someone talking loudly.

“Hey did you hear, somepony saw something heading to the Everfree, he said that it had a bag over it’s shoulder.” A stallion said. I looked over to him and marched over to him.

“How big was the bag?” I asked him. He blinked at me.

“Why do you want to kno-” I cut him off as I grabbed his shirt.

“How. Big. Was. The. Bag. I’m not going to ask again.” I threaten. He looked at me with wide eyed.

“Ummm, I don’t know, he said that it was far away and he didn’t get a good look at it but what he could tell it was a small bag, the size of a filly at most.” He told me. I let go of him and looked around of the place.

“EVERYONE OUT OF THE PUB!” I yelled. They all stopped what they were doing to stare at me. I pulled my knife out and slammed it on the table, breaking it.

“NOW!” That did it. Everypony in the pub got up and ran out of the door. I went over to the back room and grabbed a pen and paper. I came back into the room with the CmC still there and wrote a small note.

“Where’s Spike?” I asked them without looking up.

“He’s with Twilight,” Scootaloo told me. I cursed and broke the pen I was holding, I’m really bad with pens.

“Is there any other way to get a message to the Princesses?” I asked them.

“Well the post office has some dragon fire to send letters, Twilight gave some to them if there was an emergency and Spike wasn’t around but no pony can use it since it’s really hard to make.” Sweetie told me. I looked at her for a moment and snapped my fingers. A palm size coin with a silver moon on it appeared and I handed it to her with the note. Sometimes being the daughter to the Princess of the Moon comes in handy at times.

“Go there and tell them to send this to Luna with the dragon fire, if they say no just show them this and they will let you.” I told them. They began to say something but I ignore them as I went out of the pub.

I took to the air and shot forward to the Everfree, these kidnappers just made the biggest mistake of their lives.

Nyx Sparkle

I was curled up in the corner of the cell I was in. I don’t know why I was being foalnapped by Diamond dog but here I was. All I remember was that I was heading to school when something grabbed me and pulled me to an alley. I tried to use my magic but they put an anti- magic ring on my horn and put a rag on my mouth which made me fall asleep.

When I woke up I saw that I was in a cell. I looked through the bars and saw that there was other cells that were full of griffins, minotaurs, but mostly ponies. I was the one with my own cell.

“What’s going to happen to me now?” I said to myself.

“I don’t know little one, none of us know.” I jumped as I heard a voice. I looked up and saw that there was someone else in the cell with me, and it took me till now to notice him.

“W-w-who are you?” I asked as I backed up in my corner.

“I’m just a prisoner like you, but for different reasons.” I heard shuffles and saw the other prisoner move to the lighter part of the cell. I saw that he was a Diamond dog with a scar over his right eye. He had his mane in a ponytail and wore strange robes.

“Who are you? Aren’t you a Diamond dog that kidnapped me?” I asked him. He shook his head.

“No, I maybe a Diamond dog but I not with this packed of them, and I for one don’t go and foalnapped anyone,” He looked at me for a moment. “This is the first time I ever saw a filly Alicorn in the flash.”

“Why are you in here for?” I asked him, ignoring the last part. He sat down cross-legged in the light so I could see him.

“As you can tell I’m not from this pack, I’m not from any other packs, not anymore, you see young one I’m something that’s is called a Rōnin.” He told me.

“What’s a Rōnin?” I asked him. I moved to sit in front of him.

“A Rōnin is a warrior that has no lord or master to serve, I was banish from my pack for something that I did.” He told me. I stared at him for a bit.

“Where are you from?” I asked him.

“Some place far away, where tree’s bloom pink in the summer.” He told me. I nodded and looked out of the cell. I saw a Diamond dog walk past us and growled at us and walked away.

“How long do you think we are stuck here?” I asked him. He shook his head.

“I don’t know, I was here for five months before they brought others in.” He told me. I frowned a bit.

“Well, I think somepony will come and save us,” I told him. He just chuckled at me.

“How are so sure of yourself little one?” He asked me. I looked at him.

“I just do, so how did you get banished?” I asked him. He chuckled at me.

“Do you want to know? It’s a long story.” He said to me. I got a bit comfortable where I was sitting.

“I enjoy long stories and it looks like we’re not going to get out soon so it will pass the time.” I told him. I looked out of the cell at the other cell and saw what looked like a family of ponies. Someone please save us.

Blake

I soar through the air at top speed looking down at the Everfree. I was following the magic trail that was left by Nyx as she was carried off by the kidnapper. One of the things Mom taught me that everyone has a little bit of magic in them, some more than others and Nyx was an alicorn so her trail was like following the yellow brick road, with big arrows pointing towards her, with a sign that reads ‘This way dumby!’. I went down to the trees and hiked the rest of the way there.

As I got there I saw that it was a cave that leads into a mountain. There was two guards standing guard, they were Diamond dogs. I frowned at this, why is it that in every fanfic I read makes Diamond dogs kidnappers. Pushing that thought to the back of my head I made a bow appeared in my hand and pulled back the bowstring which made an arrow. I aimed at the door of the place.

“Knock, knock.” I said as I let loose the arrow. It hit the door and a second later it exploded. As the dust settled I saw the door gone and the two guards also gone. I went to the door making the bow disappear and pull out my two knives.

I walked down into the cave I was met with a group of dogs. They growled at me and charged at me. Using some of the shadows I dispatched them with no effort. I continued down to the cave with one thought in my mind, ‘If Twilight finds out that I let her daughter get kidnapped she will kill me, I seen what she did aganse Tirek and it’s a big nope for me.’

After taking care of a few more groups I came up to a big set of doors. I kicked them down and saw that there was every dog in the cave here and they have spears and other weapons. I took my knife and plunge it into the ground, making a wave of shadows erupted from the ground taking care of them. I looked up and saw a big Diamond dog with a claymore staring at me, I guess he's the leader.

“You have some nerve of coming here.” He snarled at me.

“And you also have the nerve of kidnapping my cousin, so we’re even,” I told him as I pointed my knife at him.

“Now release everyone you have kidnapped or I will kill you.” He just laughed at me.

“You? Kill me, don’t make me laugh I have fought dragons and won, you’re just a mouse to them.” I frowned and went to a stance.

“Well then, let me show you the can of whoop ass.” I told him. He roared and swung his claymore at me. Here’s the thing about giant weapons, they are heavy and slow so dodging them is really easy. How you may ask, video game logic that’s why.

I dodge his swings and throw some knives at him, it didn’t really slow him down but it annoyed him. I continued moving around him, I even did some dodge rolls.

“Hold still!” He yelled at me as he did an overhead strike. I jumped back a bit and smiled at him.

“What’s wrong, can’t hit the little mouse?” I taunted him. He then swang at me again just for me to dodge out of the way, right into his fist as he punched me and sent me into the wall. I groaned a bit.

“Looks like I caught the mouse, now you will die for the demons.” He said to me, demons?

“What do you mean?” I asked as I got out of the hole in the wall. He chuckled at me.

“Don’t you know about the demons and that it was odd that they just stopped attacking, well I was payed to get as many as I could get for an, ‘offering’ to the demons, a new age is coming and with the help with this alicorn filly that we found we assured that the new age will come.” He told me. I would make a joke that he just monologue his whole plane to me but one part struck me the wrong way. They were going to kill Nyx to bring more demons into this world, her and a whole lot of others. I felt something inside me that was started to burn.

“I’m not going to let that happen,” I told him. He just laughed at me.

“Well then let's see if you can live through the day.” He said then he charged at me. All I saw was him swinging the claymore at me and everything went black.

I blinked my eyes and put my hand on my head as a massive headache was pounding on me. I looked at me hand and saw that it was caked with blood and other stuff.

“Wha…” I said as I looked around the room. There was body parts everywhere. I don’t remember what happen but I saw the leader on the ground with one of his arms ripped off and his claymore imbedded in his chest. I went over and saw that he had a ring of keys, I took them and headed towards what I think are the holding cells.

I opened the door and found the cells, I looked through the bars and saw many ponies in the cells, some with griffins and minotaurs. I opened one of the cells and handed a set of keys to some of them and told them to open the rest of them. I looked around until I heard her.

“Blake!” I looked and saw Nyx waving at me through the bars. I ran over and opened the cell door. She ran up and hugged me as I hugged her back.

“I’m so sorry Nyx, I should of went with you to school.” I told her still remembering the image of a pissed off Twilight.

“Blake, what happened to you, why are you covered in blood.” I heard her say. I looked at my arms and frowned.

“It doesn’t matter now, now we should get out of here.” I told her. I looked up and saw another come out of the cell. I frowned at him since I saw him as one of the dogs. “And you are?”

“He’s was also capture by the Diamond dogs, he’s not part of this pack.” Nyx said to me. He bowed at me. He kinda looked like samurai Jack if Jack was a gray dog with yellow eyes. He was a chicken once.

“I thank you for saving me and the others, I’m in your debt.” He told me. I nodded and looked around and saw that the rest of the prisoners are out of the cells.

“Let’s head on back, I don’t want to stay here any longer,” I told them.

Luna Oíche

I paced back and forth in the map room of Twilight’s castle. I got the letter from Blake two hours ago and those words keep repeating in my head over and over again.

Someone kidnapped Nyx, going to find her and maybe the rest of the other ponies that were kidnapped, bring medics.
-Blake

I know I shouldn’t worry about her, she can take care of herself but I can’t help it.

“Luna, you should stop pacing you’ll make a dent in Twilight’s floor,” Tia said to me. I stopped and looked at her.

“I know sister it’s just that I’m worried,” I told her. She raised an eyebrow at me.

“You’re worried about your daughter? Didn’t the both of you wrecked one of the main training grounds when you two spared.” She asked me. I shrugged and grabbed my cup of coffee and took a drink.

“We said we are sorry and it’s going to get repaired,” I told her. She sighed and looked at me.

“You know you shouldn’t drink coffee when you’re stressed, it will make your blood pressure sky rocket.” She told me.

“It’s better than drinking alcohol,” I replied as I took another swig. I heard the doors open and turned to see one of the guards walk in. He stopped when he saw me looking at him.

“Anything?” Celestia asked him. He looked at her and shook his head.

“I’m sorry your highnesses, we looked everywhere but still can’t find anypony out there.” He said to us. I glared at him.

“Well try again!” I yelled at him. He jumped at this and nodded. He ran out of the room as I took some breaths.

“At least you didn’t use the royal voice.” My sister commented. I sighed and looked down.

“I know I shouldn’t worry about her,” I looked at her. “But I can’t help it, I finally have her back and I don’t want to lose her again.” I looked away from her and rubbed my arm. I felt her walk up to me and give me a hug.

“I know that you're worried sister and I would also be if she was my own, I promise you that she’s fine.” She told me. Just like the universe was listing the doors opened again and another guard stopped in front of us. She was out of breath since she ran in.

“I’m- sorry your- highnesses, *pant* oh boy *pant* for disturbing you, *gasp* but scouts reported that there’s a large group heading this way, nondemonic.” She panted. I looked at Tia and right before she could say anything I bolted out of the room.

“Please be alright.”

I landed near the forest and started to look around to see many ponies getting looked after with some griffins and minotaurs as well. I looked around some more until I heard someone talking.

“Listen miss we are just trying to check if you’re alright.” I heard a mare said.

“And I’m telling you that I’m fine, this isn’t even my blood.” I turned to see Blake talking to one of the guards. I saw that her arms were covered in blood and her clothes were torn up. I felt tears in my eyes.

“Blake!” I yelled as I ran towards her.

Blake (Note to reader: if you see anyone talking like This that means they are talking in a different language.)

“Oh hey ther-herk!” I was cut off when my mom ran up and hugged me. Surprise hug!

“Are you alright? What happened?!” She asked me. I saw that she switched to Irish . I sighed and hugged her back realizing that my hands and arms were still covered in blood. Oh well, she’s a Princess, she probably has hundred of these dresses.

“I’m fine, just a little banged up but I’m fine no need to worry.” I told her. She pulled away and smiled.

“Everyone is telling me to not worry but I’m your mother, I always worry about you.” She said to me. I looked down and smiled.

“Ummm, what are you two talking about?” We turned to see Nyx looking at us with a confused look, even the Diamond dog looked at us confused. I chuckled a bit.

“No one seemed to speak Irish here huh.” I told mom. She also chuckled.

“I tried to teach them how but being banished for a thousand years makes it hard to teach.” She told me. I shrugged and looked at Nyx.

“Sorry Nyx didn’t mean to confuse you,” I said to her. She shook her head.

“It’s fine just surprising.” She replied.

“Now I know that you’re all tired but I have to ask, what happened? Why are you covered in blood?” Mom asked me. I turned to tell her what happened. It didn’t take long.

“Then I fought with what I guess is the leader and…” I stopped and frowned, there was that black out.

“And what?” Mom asked me. I looked at her for a moment and shook my head.

“I-I don’t know, he said that the others are going to be used for I guess as a sacrifice for the demons and Nyx was going to push it over the edge and then everything went dark.” I told her. I looked over to Nyx and saw her looking scared. I pat her on the shoulder and smiled at her, calming her down a bit. I looked back to mom as she stared at me. My smile dropped at that.

“And what happened when you came to?” She asked.

“Well when I came to I saw that there were body parts everywhere and the leaders claymore was in his chest, Mom I don’t know what happened,” I told her. She looked away for a moment and sighed.

“I don’t know either Blake but all that matters is that you’re safe and you also save a lot of lives.” She told me. I looked around to see everyone getting on chariots to go home. I smiled and looked over to the Diamond dog.

“You know, I never got your name,” I asked him. He looked at me for a moment.

“That’s because I don’t have one.” He told me. I blinked at me for a moment.

“What?” Was all I said to him. He rolled his eyes at me.

“Where I came from when you get banished you are stripped of everything, your honor, rank, even your name.” He explained.

“Well, you need a new name then!” Nyx said. We stared at her for a moment and I nodded.

“Well it makes sense, I don’t want to call you Diamond dog all the time,” I told him. He stared at me and tilted his head a bit.

“Jin.” He said. We all looked at one another and back at him. “That would be my name, Jin.”

“Okay then, nice to meet you.” I said to him. For the rest of the time we talked and watched as the rest of the chariots go off. An hour passed and the last chariot went. I looked over to Jin.

“So what are you going to do now?” I asked him. He shrugged.

“I don’t know, I don’t have anything to do right now, I will either wander or settle down somewhere.” He answered me. I looked at him for a moment then got an idea. Lightbulb!

“I was wondering, you looking for a job?”

Author's Note

Well this is something.

See you all in the next chapter :)