Twilight’s Castle

Spike was looking at the weapon that Twilight and Sunset managed to drag back to the castle. He started poking at the metal parts with his claws curiously.

“Spike will you, stop playing with that thing,” Twilight said, looking over at him.

“Sorry,” He said and walked away from it.

“So what happened to you both,” Sunset asked them.

“Well last week Spike went to visit Rarity, but he never made it back home,” Twilight was explaining to her.

Spike looked at Twilight and then walked up to Sunset and cleared his throat.

“There I was minding my own business when a large dragon called out to me from the forest,” He said as he tried it act out what happened.

“Roar, I am the mighty Ripjaw and I need your help,” Spike said trying to speak in a deep voice.

Twilight giggled and looked at Sunset as groaned at the bad acting.

“Oh how can I help a fellow dragon, I said,” He explained flexing one arm at a time.

“I need someone of your size to help me dig for gems, The dragon asked me,” Spike said, continuing to act out a scene of a play.

“I would be glad to help, where are these delicious gems that you speak of, I asked him,” He said.

“Deep in the forest underground, I need you to come with me now, he insisted,” Spike said in a deep voice.

“Sorry but the forest is off limits and Princess Twilight would not allow me, I tried to explain,” He said and then acted out a scene that he was grabbed. “I tried to escape but he capture me and took me to the underground mine,” Spike said, finishing his story.

“So I went looking for Spike and got captured,” Twilight said not proud of what happened.

“Did you try to escape?” Sunset asked, looking at them.

“A few times but then he wrapped my horn and threatened to hurt us and the children,” Twilight sighed.

“It’s my fault Twilight if I didn’t get captured first then none of this would have happened,” Spike said and kicked the metal weapon which made a metallic clank against his foot.

“OUCH,” He yelled, jumped up and down holding his right foot

“Spike don’t beat yourself up over this, if it was not you, it would have been someone else,” Sunset said as her horn glowed as she touched Spike’s foot healing it.

"Thank you," Spike said, feeling a bit embarrassed and walked away to check his comics.

Twilight lead Sunset to a balcony and looked down to Ponyville. Music and laughter can be heard coming from the center of the town. Pinkie made good on her promise of throwing the biggest party yet for the town.

“I think this is the best spot in the castle, you can see everything from here,” Twilight said with a smile feeling the evening breeze in her mane.

“Friendship Rainbow Kingdom, is that what you are going to call this place?” Sunset said with a grin looking outside.

“Ponyville will always be Ponyville, besides it is not official yet, not until Princess Celestia says so,” Twilight said, looking at her.

“A kingdom within a kingdom?,” Sunset said sounding a bit confused.

"The Crystal Empire has its own government that freely trades with the rest of Equestria and then there is the Griffin Kingdom which is its own country," Twilight said trying to explain.

"The United States of Equestria?" Sunset said thinking about something similar.

“I guess that is one way to describe it,” Twilight said and watched Sunset heading back inside.

"If I get my own place some day, I'll call it the Kingdom of Kick-Ass ," She said with a smirk and started looking around the inside of the castle.

Twilight blinked for a moment and then started giggling and then she burst out laughing.

“Come on I want to show you something else,” She said trying to get her giggles under control and lead Sunset to a room.

“NO WAY,” Sunset said when she saw a crystal mirror it looked just like the one in Canterlot Castle.

“Yes way, I got my own mirror now, it just needs some tweaks,” Twilight said as her horn glowed and she rearranged some crystals causing it to power up.

“Will this take me home?” She asked her.

“I know you miss your friends, and I am sure Pinkie Pie has a party waiting for you there,” Twilight said with a nod and smiled.

“What about Adagio?” Sunset asked and looked out a window.

Near The Southern Trail

Kevin looked up as the sky was noticing that the sun would set soon and returned his focus on the campfire. He looked to the right hearing some animal noises from the forest.

“I don’t think Adagio likes Trixie,” Willy said and grabbed a stick with his mouth holding a marshmallow over the fire.

“Trixie is not bad once, you get to know her,” Kevin said, pushing a log deeper into the fire stirring up the ashes.

“If you say so, but I heard that she challenged Princess Twilight to a duel and wanted to take over Equestria,” Willy said and quickly pushed one end of the stick into the ground so he could blow out the marshmallow before it burned.

“That was the old Trixie, she has changed since then,” Kevin said and started coughing and stopped to clear the throat.

A short distance away in the bush...

“Slow down,” Adagio said, walking through the tall grass.

“This way don’t keep Trixie waiting,” Trixie said poking her head out from the grass.

Adagio was just tall enough to keep her head above the grass. Trixie, on the other hand, was lower than the grass and was hard to see. So she had to follow her voice and trying to keep up with the unicorn. The grass finely thinned opening up to a field of wildflowers which were of different colors and shapes.

“So pretty!” Adagio said walking between the flowers.

“Don’t touch or smell the bright blue flowers,” Trixie warned looking back.

Adagio carefully back away from a blue flower she was about to smell and then carefully walked up to Trixie,

“So what does it look like?” Adagio asked looking around.

“According to Zecora’s book on home remedies, we are looking for this flower,” She said and opened a bag she was caring with her magic.

A book floated in front of them and opened. Trixie then pointed to a page that had a drawing of a flower that was orange with blue leaves on the stem.

“I hope we find it before the sunsets,” Adagio said looking up at the sky noticing the time.

“Trixie will find it first,” Trixie said sounding confident.

“Not unless I find it before you,” Adagio said still looking.

After a few minutes of searching Trixie saw something orange near a pond. She slowly walked closer and then noticed two orange flowers growing on top of rocks clumped together in the mud.

“Looks like Trixie is the winner,” She said proudly, moving closer ready to grab the flowers.

Then she noticed yellow eyes from a Cragadile and stopped. Taking a closer look she saw that the flowers were growing on the back of the creature. She took a few steps back and it closed its eyes looking like a pile of rocks again.

“Did you find it?” Adagio said standing up stretching her back.

“Yes, can you please help Trixie get them?” Trixie said pointing to the flowers.

Not suspecting anything Adagio walked casually up to the mound of rocks and reached for the flowers. Trixie snickered to herself watching her pull the flowers out.

"That wasn't so hard AAAAHHH..." She screamed out noticing the rocks were alive.

Cragadile roared as it quickly turned and swatted Adagio with its large tail sending her into the flying in the pond. The creature turned and went into the water after her.

“Help!” Adagio said, coughing up some water, as she tried to swim.

“Oh what cruel fate, now Trixie has to give the bad news,” She said as her horn glowed grabbing the flowers and started to walk away.

*****

"Are you sure Twilight?" Sunset asked looking at the mirror.

"I'll find Adagio and bring Willy back," Twilight said with a smile.

"Alright but if Adagio, gives you a hard time just call me," Sunset said and hugged Twilight before walking into the mirror.

Twilight watch her friend disappear into the crystal mirror.

***

Spike was in the other room was trying to push the alien weapon to another spot.

"This would be so much easier if you were round like an egg," He said out loud now putting his back against it trying to push with his feet.

Suddenly it powered up and started to change shape, parts folding up and rotated it started the take the shape of an oval egg.

"Twilight!" Spike yelled out causing her to coming running from across the castle.

"What is it?" She said and gasped when she saw the large metal egg. "Spike what did you do?" She asked him.

They both looked at the egg which had small seams and it was made of that strange looking metal that Ripjaw was also made of.

"I just said it would be easier to move as an egg and it transformed into it," The young dragon said.

"Before anything else happens, help me move it into the dungeon," Twilight insisted.

"We have a dungeon?" Spike said sounding surprised.

"Well we are living in a castle Spike," She said rolling her eyes.

*****

Adagio yelled out again and noticed Trixie walking away like she was ignoring her. The Cragadile was swimming towards her and she knew that she could not escape, at least not as a human. She closed her eyes and grabbed the red gem on her neck and submerged under the murky water.

“Well, that was anticlimactic,” Trixie glanced over not seeing anything on the surface of the pond and continued to walk towards the tall grass.

She then heard a high pitch screech and the roar of the Cragadile behind her. It sounded like two monsters were fighting. She slowly turned around and saw something she never expected. A large yellow pony-like creature with flippers was challenging the Cragadile. The Cragadile charged with it large jaws open trying to bite the Siren. Adagio being more adapted to swim, quickly dodged the attack and gave it a uppercut with her right hoof. It felt like she punched a brick wall. The Cragadile swam at her again but this time, Adagio used her magic. Trixie watched as a water in the pond started spinning into a whirlpool. The Cragadile tried to swim against the current, but it was losing the battle. Adagio raised her right hoof pointing and the whirlpool changed into a waterspout which launched the Cragadile into the air sending fly away. It landed on it’s back and struggled to roll back onto its feet. Trixie looked at the Siren staring down the Cragadile with glowing red eyes. The creature decided it had enough and walk away into the bush. Adagio then turned her attention to Trixie looking angry with her eyes glowing red.

A few minutes later Kevin and Willy heard Trixie screaming as she ran out from the bush into their campsite.

“Someone please help Trixie, a monster is chasing her!” Trixie yelled out as she burst out of the tall grass covered in grass and dirt.

Kevin and Willy quickly ran up to Trixie to check on her. Trixie quickly clung onto Kevin shivering. She pointed towards the tall grass and there was rustling noise as something approached them. Kevin grabbed a branch that was burning on one end and held it pointing towards the noise. They gasped as a figured climbed out.

“Hi guys,” Adagio said holding two orange flowers in one of her hands.

“You, you… YOU'RE ALIVE, OH Praise Princess Celestia on your safe return,” Trixie in a loud voice.

Willy quickly rolled up to Adagio and she gently caressed his mane.

“Miss me,” She said to Willy with a smile and looked at Trixie with suspicion.

An hour later...

"Trixie was so worried about friend Adagio that she panicked and started to run away to get help," She tried to explain as she used her magic to get the ingredients ready to mix.

"How did you escape the Cragadile?" Willy asked sitting next to Adagio.

"Oh well I was nothing, I just gave it a push and swam out of the pond," She answered looking at Trixie who shook her head not believing it.

"You can't full Trixie, there was another monster there it was yellow and attacked that Cragadile," Trixie said saw that Adagio was ignoring her now.

She noticed that Kevin was looking at Adagio and nodded with a smile. This angered her but she had to focus on the medicine. A small metal pot floated above the campfire. Two orange flowers floated and were dropped into the pot and then a few other ingredients were added with water. The pot started boiling letting off a strong smell.

"Now Kevin dear this potion will help you feel better," Trixie said as she slowly lowered the pot to the ground in front of him.

She used her magic to pour the contents into a glass bottle. Trixie then moved up close to Kevin and floated the bottle to his mouth. Adagio grumbled to herself twirling her long in her right hand and pulling on it. Kevin was about to drink it when Adagio stood up and walked over to him.

"Hold on let me try it first, I don't trust her," Adagio said and grabbed the bottle.

"But Trixie only made that for Kevin, it may cause some side effects," The unicorn protested.

"I got the flowers so I get to test it," Adagio insisted.

She blew at the hot liquid before sipping some of it down and regretted it right away, it was like drinking cough syrup straight from the bottle. Willy watched as Adagio ran into the brush making gagging noises for the nest few minutes.

"Trixie tried to warn her," She said and looked at Kevin.

Trixie gave the bottle to Kevin who gulped it down quickly. The large pony sat there quiet but then started to look green and quickly stood up and ran into the bush and also started to dry hurl. Adagio held her right side as her stomach felt warm as she walked back to Willy and sat down.

"Adagio are you feeling ok?" Willy asked, looking concerned.

"I'm ffffiiinnee just a little diizzyy," She said feeling the world spinning around her and closed her eyes.

Adagio didn't remember the rest of that night and fell fast asleep.

Author's Note

Hope you enjoyed this chapter.

Hopefully I got most of the errors corrected.

Thanks again for reading.