The Return of the Ice Queen

            Rainbow Dash looked up from her book when there was knocking on her door.

She asked,

"Yes?"

Crystal-light's cheery voice said,

"Time for dinner. You don't have to dress up."

Rainbow Dash muttered,

"Thank Faust." She brushed her mane quickly and followed Crystal-light to the dining room. It was quite beautiful. Chairs were made of clouds, a silver table laden with all kinds of food on copper plated. Snowfrost sat at the head of the table, windigoe nobels sitting on the sides. There was an empty place on Snowfrost's right, so Rainbow Dash guess that was her place. When Snowfrost saw her she nodded to the seat. Rainbow sat down.

Snowfrost said,

"That will be all Crystal-light. Thank you."

Crystal-light smiled and said,

"Anytime Snowfrost!" Rainbow did a double take at the relaxed relationship every windigoe had with Snowfrost. It appeard they only called her Empress in front of others for show. She stared at the food the nobels had. It was the ugliest little monsters Rainbow had ever seen. It was covered in green fur, blue tentacles for feet, short, fat, and it's yellow and red striped eye glared hatefully at everything. Rainbow noticed the nobels would then flash their eyes, a blue gas rose into their mouthes, and the monsters would freeze solid. Then the nobels would eat normal food. Rainbow ate quietly some rosted hay infused with a suite coated beetroot. It was really good, actually.

Snowfrost asked,

"So Rainbow, how are you getting along?" Rainbow blinked. Snowfrost had remembered her name?

She said

"Uh... not too bad. Besides being taken away from my friends, it's cool."

Snowfrost smirked and said,

"Don't worry TOO much. You will see them again. As statues!" All the nobels bursted out laughing like it was the funniest joke they even heard. Rainbow, however, felt tears come into her eyes.

She yelled,

"You monster!"

Snowfrost put a hoof to her chest and said in a mocking voice,

"Oh, my heart. If it had any kindness left, it would be breaking!"

Rainbow snapped,

"I sure am glad your mom can't see what freak she raised!" As soon as Rainbow said the words the room seemed to sit still.

She saw Snowfrost's eyes start to water before she narrowed them and said in a slightly chocked voice,

"I see. Fleetwind, get Crystal-light to take Rainbow to wherever she wants to go. The party is over." She stood up and after all the nobels bowed, she bowed to them and left.

Rainbow jumped when Crystal-light's voice said quietly,

"Would you like to look around the kingdom? It's quite fun and there is plenty of entertainment after the dinner hour."

Rainbow nodded and said,

"Sure but, what happend?"

Crystal-light said,

"It is forbidden for outsiders to ask such questions. Come along." Crystal-light turned back to her usual, cheerful self, but Rainbow Dash kept on wondering why did Snowfrost freeze up at that.

She didn't even realized she had said a pun.

Twilight was looking through books on windigoes and found practically nothing to help her. Just that their kingdom was in the Frozen North where the winds are too strong even for alicorns, and that they were thought to be lost forever after Hearth's Warming Eve. She put the book away and was about to leave when she heard a small thump. She rounded the corner and saw on the floor another book. Very old, too. She picked it up and read the cover.

'The Fire Massacre, and Before.' by Starswirl the Bearded

Twilight cocked her head and muttered,

"Interesting." She sat down in a chair and began to read.