MLP Adventures Series: Shadow Night

Later, in Canterlot, Celestia was sitting on her throne, as usual.

But then, Flash Sentry bursts through the front doors.

"Princess Celestia!" he shouted.

"Flash Sentry" Princess Celestia said "Isn't today supposed to be your day off?"

"Yes, but, I'm afraid that I have horrible news. HE has returned!"

"Who's HE? I've dealt with a lot of HE's, so you'll have to be more specific."

"I'm talking about Shadow Night."

Celestia was surprised.

"Shadow Night couldn't have returned. I put a shield around him that only alicorns can control. No-pony could destroy it, right?"

"Wrong."

"But how ... did he escape?"

"He didn't do it alone, a pony who called himself 'Xerxon' used dark magic to free him, and I think he said that his organization was the 'Eye of Xansun', who aimed to overthrow you and conquer Equestria."

"The Eye of Xansun? I haven't heard that name in a long time. And you said that he used dark magic?"

"Not only that, but he used zebra magic and Discord's magic and combined all three magics to transform himself into some kind of monster."

"This is terrible. I have to alert Princess Twilight immediately!"

So Princess Celestia gathered Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Rarity in Canterlot, and Flash was in the room with them.

Princess Celestia told the group "I'm glad you all made it, Flash here told me some horrible news: Shadow Night has returned!"

Twilight and Spike were shocked, but the rest of the group were unaware of the situation.

"Who's Shadow Night?" Pinkie Pie asked.

"I've heard of Shadow Night when I was a filly" Twilight said. "I barely saw him, but he attacked Canterlot as a colt. Celestia imprisoned him in a cave in the Everfree Forest after that, but I don't know how he escaped."

"He had help from someone named Xerxon." Celestia said. "I don't know who HE is, but I know he's from an old organization called the Eye of Xansun."

"The Eye of What?" Rainbow asked.

"The Eye of Xansun, a group of ponies who supported a monster named Xansun. However, Xansun was imprisoned long ago, but his supporters still remained. I assume Xerxon was a part of this organization?"

"From what I assume, he's their new leader" Flash told them.

"So what do we do?" Twilight asked.

"I don't know, they could be anywhere all over Equestria. The Eye of Xansun is a secret organization that lurks in the shadows, trying to avoid being seen. We'll have to keep a sharp eye out for anything suspicious."

"What about Shadow Night?"

"I have a picture of him from when he was a colt. Right now he is the same age as Twilight."

Celestia levitates a photo of a younger colt version of Shadow Night, who's looking angry in the photo.

"If you see him" Celestia said "Capture him, and bring him to me."

"We won't let you down." told Rainbow Dash.

But then, they heard a rumble that sounded like it came from outside.

"What the hay was that?" Applejack asked.

The group looked outside, and they saw that Canterlot was under attack by members of the Eye of Xansun.

"Split up" Twilight said. "If we spread out, we can stop more of these goons from attacking Canterlot."

The Mane 6 spread out. Then Flash ran off.

Celestia told Flash "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to fight, too!" he said.

Rarity was running, and he used magic to levitate and throw some Eye of Xansun members she found. However, she saw her store in Canterlot being destroyed by one Eye of Xansun mare.

Rarity gasped, and then she fainted.

Meanwhile, Shadow Night was walking through Canterlot with Xerxon, and they looked around them to see Xerxon's subjects attacking Canterlot.

"What do you need me for again?" Shadow Night asked Xerxon.

"I need you to directly attack Princess Celestia."

"Got it!"

So Shadow Night ran off.

Shadow Night ran past various buildings, and he ran past Twilight Sparkle who was dealing with other Eye of Xansun members. Then, he paused.

One Eye of Xansun member, a stallion, looked at Shadow when he paused.

"What are you doing, Shadow Night?" he asked.

Shadow Night ran back to look at Twilight. He was gazing at her in awe, and he started to feel a little love struck for a moment.

"Who ... is that?" Shadow asked.

The stallion told him "That's Princess Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Friendship."

"I've never heard of her."

"She's one of the newer princesses."

"Wow, she sure is pretty."

"She's not that pretty, and unless I was mistaking, you have a job to do."

Shadow Night pulled himself back to reality, and he said "Oh, right!"

This caught Twilight's attention. Twilight looked at both the stallion and Shadow Night.

"It's You!" she said.

Twilight ran towards Shadow Night and blasted a beam of magic at him.

TO BE CONTINUED ...