Ch 1: Train Trip

The large whistle of the steel train blows heavily, echoing through the crowded train station. Steam left the train engine, warming the surrounding ponies from the winter cold. White snow falls from the night sky as ponies hurrying onto the train. Beautiful mares lifting up their long dresses to stepping onto the train while their charming stallion hold their bags and luggage. The train conductor himself is helping with luggage, collecting tickets and guiding the passengers into their rooms. After helping what seems to be the last passenger into the train, a lager, well dressed stallion with three rather lager bags and bad attitude, the conductor step off the train for a bit. His horn lit up, levitating a cigarette box and a silver lighter out of his winter jacket. He levitates a cigarette out of the box, putting it in to his mouth and lit the tip up. He let out a cloud of smoke as the cold wind and snow hit his gray fur.

After he finishes his smoke, he turn to trot right back in to the train before it leaves. But he stopped after hearing a graceful mare's voice calls out. "Wait a minute!" He turns to his head towards the voice, seeing two shadows galloping up to him through the falling snow. Two mares in grand dresses quickly stopped in front of him, slightly panting from their run. The white unicorn with thick, purple curly hair looked at the conductor, her dark purple dress dancing in the wind. "R-Royal Gem and S-Sky Dancer..." She said heavily panting.

The conductor turns to the entrance to the train and levitated a clip board off its holder toward him. He looked through the long list of ponies assign to the first class compartment, and then smiled. "Yes, of course, Miss Royal Gem and Sky Dancer. You made it just in time."

The two mares smiled at each other, sighing in relief. The white mare horn lit up a bright blue to levitated two golden tickets to the conductor. He took the tickets, put it in his pocket and grabs the two bags that the two mares had. He looked at the yellow mare as he did, her long pink hair covering part of her face. He couldn't help but to look at the pair of wings poking out of her green ruffled dress. Pegasus is very rare to see in Equestria, mainly because most of them live in a large city within the clouds instead of the ground. Putting is attention back to his job, he trotted in to the train with the two lovely mares fallowing.

They move through the crowds of first class ponies that are putting away their large luggage in their rooms, stallions talking about heavy politics while mares spread about the resent juicy gossip as they head towards the diner hall for a fancy dinner to get to the mare's room. He turns his head around at a couple of points to see if the two mares are keeping up, luckily they were especially Sky Dancer. She moved very quickly through the down pour of ponies with her friend almost running behind. At some points he forgot that she was even there because how dead quit she was. Finally near their destination, he try stir up conversation.

"Not a lot of stuff." the conductor said trotted towards the room.

"Oh no." Royal Gem said, fixing her hair. "We just going to Canterlot for a quick visit, isn't that right Sky Dancer?" Sky Dancer gave a shy nod and a kind smile to Royal Gem.

"Canterlot? That a rather fast trip." the conductor said opening the bedroom door.

"Well, yes." Royal Gem said. "We could of took a chariot but it's been so long since ether of us had been on a train trip for a while and we thought why the heck not."

The conductor smiled at unicorn as he trotted into the room, looking at the detailed dark green wallpaper of a tiny bit. He put down the bags, placing them in front of the soft bunk beds with red blankets that have small golden detail on top. He fixed up the beds and slightly tightening up the room itself, just to be kind. Before he left the room, he check the door within the room, all the rooms have doors that leads to the next rooms, just in case in emergency happens. After he check the door and found the key that opens the door, he wrote a short letter to remind the mares what the key does and head out.

He trotted out of the room just as he saw the door from next door open. The rude stallion from before trotted out his room, he stop instantly when he saw the two mares whispering to each other. Fixing his golden mane, he smiled in a flirtatious manner as he lean against the wall. Both mares looked at each other before joyfully giggled. The conductor rolled his eyes as he trotted in between the three ponies to continue his work. Before the conductor left, Royal Gem called the conductors back. "Oh, sir!" she said waving to him. The conductor trotted back to her, she smiled at him as she pulled out a large green gem out of her dress pocket and places it inside of his jacket. "Thank you very much for helping."

The conductor tip his hat in gratitude, she smiled again as she turn back to the stallion to continue her talk. Just before he left the three ponies alone, he looked at Royal Gem's necklace. He did notice it earlier but it wasn't outstanding when he first saw it. It was just a purple diamond shape gem on a golden chain. But he would have sworn that it started glowing softly, but it could of just been the lights up above. Shaking it off, he trotted off to continue his night.

.........

The bright lamp on the small wooden desk flickered as the train move rapidly through the train tracks. The lamp's light reflects the shadows of a tall golden stallion walking towards his bed and sitting down at the edge. Running his hoof through his mane, he lit his horn to levitate a small glass cup and bottle of whisky he order earlier off the wooden desk. Taking the cap off, then he pour himself a cold glass. Sliver Bill levitate the bottle back down at the desk, grabbed the glass and took a large sip, grinning at the three bags in the corner of the room. Because within two of those bags are fill of thousands of dollars.

About a week ago, he scams an elder earthpony to sell him a bunch of golden statues of dirt cheap. He told her that a sell man the statues were basically worthless and he would buy them off of her. In reality he's a noble that bought golden statues for cheap and sold them to an art museum for thousands of dollars. Now he's on his way to Canterlot to cash in his new found money into the bank. He grinned ever wider and cheered himself of his victory. Thinking back, he did get couple of rage inducing letters from the family of the elder mare. They demanded that he return the statues back to them with several death threats sprinkled in. But he quickly shook it off, he receive stuff like this all the time so it didn't really bother him.

A loud knock came from the wooden door. He sighed angry, he though he put a sign up that state that he wanted to be left alone. He pretended not to be, but the knocking refuse to die off. Sighing once more, he goes off his bed and trotted to the door. He grabbed the golden handle and swung the door open. "What the hell- oh..."

Standing outside in the hallway was two beautiful mares, the same ones he met a couple hours ago. The yellow pegasus moved her long pink hair out of her face, her light blue beaming at him. The white unicorn next to her fixed her fancy dress a little while giving him a grand smile. Silver Bill straighten his black suit, he lean against the door rim and gave a flirtatious smile. "Hello girls, what brings you here?"

The white unicorn spoke, placing her arm over her head in a dramatic manner. "Oh thank Celestia you here! We are in such in a pickle and we have nopony to turn to!" she said as dramatic as her pose. "Could you please spare your time to help use?" The pegasus giggled lightly, her laugh as sweet as her enter look. Silver Bill smile grew. "Well then, you two better come in."

"I thought you never ask!" the white mare said trotting right in, almost pushing Silver Bill aside as she did. Her friend fallowed, her tail flicked at him once pass. Quickly shaking the rudeness of the two mares, he checked his breath to see if it was fresh. Please to what he smells, he turns around to face the two beautiful mares. The two mares stand in the middle of the room, their eyes scanning the room, making sure that they looked at every little detail in the room. The pegasus poked the unicorn to guide her eyes to the corner where the bags sat. Seeing this strange action, he steps towards them. Somehow trying to shake the mare's action off, he put his mine on building conversation. "So, what is this pickle you are in?"

The two mares gave each other a somewhat wicked grin. The pegasus slowly trots to the door that leads to the outside and close it lock tight. The white unicorn trotted up to a mirror that hangs on the other side of the room. She sat down at the small stool in front of it and twirled her mane. She looked at him with a glareful smile. "You know... I think out dilemma is solved."

He felt a hoof slamming onto his mouth as well as a sharp blade coming out of the green sleeve of the pegasus that's holding him down. He tried to buck off the mare that was behind him but a pink aura surrounded him, trapping him in like he was in a shell. He could not move a single limb; all he could do is move his eyes. He moved is eyes to the source to the aura, shinning out of the mare's sleeve was a butterfly shape pink gem that seems to be attach to the blade place softly on his neck. The white mare looked at the frozen stallion through the mirror with a smirk. "Do you like my friend's dress design? I created a pocket within the sleeves just large enough to hide her specially made blade. I did mention that I was a dress maker earlier when we first talk, but you most likely don't remember anything about that."

Silver Bill give a angry grunt at her, as he did the blade came closer to his neck. The blade just barely cutting into his neck, red liquid started to slowly drip down his neck. The white mare giggled. "Now Fluttershy be careful, Mr. Bill need to have his information before he goes to hell." The pegasus nodded and slightly remove the blade away from his neck.

The white mare continued, getting up and trotting up towards the bags. "We gave you a chance Silver... We send you letters warring you the possible outcome of ignore us, we even gave you a week to give it back. But of course you nobles never listen to reason."

Silver Bill gave another grunt and tried to break away from the aura with no avail. The white mare continued, checking the bags. "Did anypony tell you to not mess with the mafia's family?" Silver Bill froze, his eyes widen at the white mare now smirking at him.

"Darling, why are you so surprise?" She said picking up the two bags that contains money. "I mean, it's not every day that you receive several threats in mail or two lovely mares come into your room and one of them is holding a dagger near your throat now do they?"

She lifted her hoof up to grab a golden change necklace with a purple gem in the front that she was warring. She moved her hoof under her curly mane to pull out an object that was connected to the necklace into the front. Removing her hoof from the object, the object was a golden pendant with a carving of the letter H in front. Above the H was a small, light purple gem that is shape as a six pointed star. His heart stopped as soon as he saw it, he knew what that symbol was, anypony would...

The symbol belongs to the infamous Harmony clan. There are three major criminal gangs in Equestria, The Golden Heart clan, The Harmony clan and The Black Angle clan. The Harmony clan is the most known one, most likely from there well thought out heist and their strong friendships with The Golden Heart clan. Their heists are so complex; someponies say only a mad scientist could understand it. They plan everything to a tee, making sure there is no room for error. But their member count is low so they team up with the Golden heart clan, who member count is over a thousand, to help out and split the award. The Black Angle clan is fairly new clan and not much known about them. All that is known about them is that all their heists take place at night. Rumor has it that they are a cult that worship Princess Luna, but there is no real proof of that.

He felt the aura tightening up after she said that, starting to cut off his blood stream. He tries to scream for help but the pegasus's hoof made sure he wouldn't make a single loud sound. He was surprise how strong the pegasus was, her enter body structure looks fragile but in reality was stronger than a giant stallion boxer.

"You know those statue came from one of our heist." the white mare said, pulling out a key from her dress to open the door that leads to the room next door. "They came from an old noble that sadly no longer with us anymore... One of our hardest working members was given those statues as an award and she given it to her grandmother."

She places the bags down in the other room. She pauses for a second before turning to face Silver, giving him a harsh glare. "You know the original plan was waiting until you came home and just rob you. But then her grandmother past way the other day... I and Fluttershy here are very close with her and her already small family. So now, it's personal."

The aura tightens ever harder, now he could barely breathe. His body becoming numb and his slowly became lightheaded. The pegasus's blade came closer to his neck, cutting into him once more. The white unicorn trotted up to him with a twisted smile. She lifted herself up to give him a small kiss on the cheek. She lifted herself even higher to whisper in his ear. "Sweet dreams darling... See you in Hell." She then quickly backed away as the pegasus shot her arm up and dug her blade into the stallion's neck. Warm liquid poured to the ground, matching perfectly with the red valet carpet.

.........

Sounds of train engines echoed throw the night, slowly growing louder and louder. Waiting ponies look off in the distance, seeing a large beaming light coming closer each second. The train came into sight, slowing down until it completely stops. Warm steams came out the engine that covered ponies nearby as the whistle blows loudly. Ponies stepped off the train with luggage in hoof, coming for a visit from a friend or family member or returning from one, coming home from a vacation, greeting ponies who are waiting, ect. Snow fell down as the conductor jump off the train, helping anypony that needed it. After several minutes of helping mares down and taking some luggage off the train, he saw two familiar mares. "Miss Royal Gem and Miss Sky Dancer."

"Oh, Mr. Conductor!" Royal Gem said grabbing his hoof so she wouldn't trip on her dress or dropping the two bags she levitated on the way down. Sky Dancer behind her flew off the train and landing beside her friend. "Did you enjoy your trip?" the conductor asks letting go the white mare's hoof.

"Oh it was grand." Royal Gem cheerfully said, looking at Sky Dancer. Sky Dancer nodded at Royal Gem with a shy smile. Royal Gem looked at her mane with a depressing look. She turns to the conductor. "Could you please hold this real quick? I need to fix my mess mane."

The conductor nodded and grabs hold of the two bags. She smiled as she swiftly fixes up her mane. She grabbed the bags back from him, handing one of them to her friend. "Well, we'll be off. Thank you very much." Royal Gem said with a grand smile. She turns to Sky Dancer and Sky dancer nodded. "Thank you..." She said.

"You're welcome." The conductor said tipping his hat. The two mares giggled as they trotted off into the winter night. The conductor watches them trot off as he lit up another cigarette. He blows out a giant cloud of smoke as he help out an elder mare down the train. Something came to him, wasn't that rude stallion suppose to come off here? But he quickly shook it off, and then something else came to him. He could have sworn that the mare's bags felt heavier than he remembered. Of course, that could be just his imagination.

End of Chapter 1

Author's Note

Well this is the longest first chapter I have ever done... Anyway! I've been planning this story for almost a year now and finally I am starting it. The reason for that is that I wanted too have the story mapped out in my head (mostly) to beginning to end. Also I am taking request for characters you want to see other than the charters that are shown in the fanfic details. (Warning: I will not take ships or any character deaths in any sort. Sorry. )
So please leave a comment to tell me if you like my fic or want to murder my insides for making something "Dumb" in your mine in this fic. please don't hate on someone for liking or hating something in the fic. {Aka, Don't start a bloody war.) Luv all of you, even you haters.