It was hard to believe that it had only been twenty years since the banishment of Celestia's sister, who had donned the form of Nightmare Moon. No one truly knew what really drove her to act out the way she had, but many concluded it was out of jealousy for her sister. For Celestia 20 years already felt like an eternity. She was happy that her subjects would celebrate a sense of security, ever year at the Summer Sun Celebration, but deep down, for her, it was a terrible reminder she had to banish her own sister.

Through all of the kingdom of Equestria, everything was peaceful and relatively queit, but elsewhere with her neighbors of the Griffon kingdom, the day was anything but quiet and peacful. "MOOOVE!" Shouted a voice.

In the capital known as Griffonia, a most peculiar sight arose. Three ponies were galloping as fast as their hooves could carry them. If you had a bird, or this case, griffons eye view from above, they had to continue to serpentine though the maze of streets. none of the streets were straight as arrows, as the griffons were not fond of mathematically situating their homes like ponies of Equestria seemed to develop in most urban areas of their kingdom.

But this maze of roads proved useful for the ponies, for they were evading capture of Griffonia's guards that were pursuing them, which made the griffons have to slow their pace of flying. Both the ponies and their pursuers would tell the civilians to move as they bolted through the streets, so not cause harm to the local populous by accident. Just when the griffons thought they had the ponies, the ponies would make a sharp turns, resulting in a few griffons crashing into walls of their neighbors houses.

The ponies soon came to a dead end of their road. Or at least, they ran out of running distance. There was a sheer drop off. But this did not deter the ponies. Just as the griffons thought they had caught their cloaked ponies to hold as ransom for Princess Celestia to heed to their demands, the ponies made a jump over the drop.

The griffons only watched as the ponies kept falling. "Not sure what they expected to gain by leaping to their deaths sir. Seems kind of pointless to have snatched the relic they aquired, isn't it?" One griffon guard said.

Their leader, turned back towards the city and flew towards their headquarters with his comrades as he stated, "What's done is done. We shall ask the prime ministers best course of action for what to do, if either we should inform Celestia of three of her charges falling to their deaths, or keep the whole thing under raps. I am supposing the ladder. I don't think he'll want Celestia to know that three of her charges were being chased by us."

Had the guards still looked over the edge and watched, they would have noticed that at the last few moments before coming to the water below, the three ponies had expanded their hidden wings and made a flying dash, back towards Equestria. They soon landed miles away from the capital, on the bank of a river leading towards Equestira. "Well, that went well," stated one pegasus with dark brown fur and a blond mane.

"We would have made it in and out without detection if you hadn't been taunting the guards behind their backs in front of all the civilian griffons, Swift Wing," said another pegasus, or in this case thestral, with fur as dark blue as the night sky, and a mane as white as the moon at night.

"Oh come on Moon Dust, where's your sense of fun?" Swift Wing said.

"Oh, it's fun you want?" Moon Dust smirked.

He then tackled Swift Wing and the two plunged into the shallow water, where Moon Dust proceeded to give Swift Wing a Noogie. Their friend, Thunder Hoof, who had beige fur, and a black mane, and was basically their muscle for the group, only watched and chuckled, "You two never stop. But Moon Dust, I thought we were gonna get this back to Canterlot so the eggheads could look over it, and we could get paid."

"Aye, you do have a point. Best we get moving. Then we can enjoy some food and drink at the pub and talk of our latest exploit. Oh the griffons will be so embarrassed," Moon Dust said.

The three friends had a laugh as they made their way back to Equestria to get the relic they had retrieved to Canterlot.

Meanwhile, back in Equestria's capital, Chancellor Pudding Head was in a meeting with Princess Celestia, and her adopted mortal sister, Princess Platinum, and Princess Platinum inquired, "Do you really think it wise to have let Commander Hurricane send in just three garish ponies to apprehend such a valuable relic sister? Why not just simply request the relic from the Griffons?"

"As I have stated before Platinum, the griffons were asking for something that was outlandish, and something I could not offer in return. And going in there by force would have ended in disaster. We already hold strained relations with that kingdom. Sending in a tiny party of ponies to retrieve it would not raise suspicion, and should the three be spotted in the process of getting the relic out, or should they fail to apprehend the relic, the king would not want to take action, for knowing three ponies bested his defenses. The only risk I run is his legions capturing them and holding them ransom. But these ponies are known of an unusual stubborn streak, and are not easily captured. It took Commander Hurricane forever to persuade them. And this relic will bring us a step closer to finding out the truth," Celelstia answered.

"Which truth? The one about the lost kingdom, or the one about your sister, Luna's lost heir?" Pudding Head asked.

"Both Chancellor," Celestia answered.

"I suppose, but, I thought that gauntlet you put out was to help reveal who Luna's heir was, sister?" Princess Platinum pointed out.

Celestia then had a bit of a flashback, 6 years ago, after so many nobles had been laying claim to being Luna's heir.

"This is the Guantlet of Truth. I have cast a spell on it so that only the true heir to the Lunar bloodline shall be able to don it," Celestia stated as she placed the gauntlet near the entrance to her castle on an anvil upon a stone.

"Yes, it is true, but it has not worked yet. And every year I waste, every year I lose of ever seeing them," Celestia said.

It had been shown that through the twenty years after the banishment of Nightmare Moon, Many ponies, noble and common alike tried, and all failed. And so the plan had not worked. The relics she was collecting were the only chance she had of finding an answer to track down her long lost niece or nephew, as well as the lost kingdom of her kind. And the only ponies she could rely on were, Moon Dust, and his band of misfits that were hired by her captain of the Equestrian Royal Guard, Commander Hurricane. All she could do now was just wait and see what relics they could turn up.

While she was busy trying to run her country as well as tracking down her ancestors relics, her chief mage, Starswirl the Bearded, and his apprentice, Clover the Clever, were busy with their magical arts. "Master Starswirl, do you think there is any hope for Celestia to learn about her sister's heir."

"Oh there is hope my student. But while we must not interfere with her work, we must help push for the heir to find their way. Any news on Moon Dust as of recent?" Starswirl inquired.

"Commander Hurricane sent him on another, raid, as I like to say. Though I am happy he's not robbing nobles of their wealth anymore," Clover admitted.

"He did always seem to gallop with a strange crowd. But he is unique among us. Not many can perform his feats, and some are too frightened to even try," Starsswirl chuckled.

Soon Starswirl dropped a pinch of one of his potions into a vile of another potion. Then, an explosion occurred throwing the two mages back towards the wall. Starswirl coughed, covered in soot, "Well, I was right, there is a combustable reaction between Sodium Dioxide and Selenium Nitrate."

"I'll write that down master," Clover stated as she pulled out their journal of magical studies.

Author's Note

End of Chapter 1. Let me know that you think. This was inspired by the trailer for the new movie "King Authur: Legend of the Sword".

I have two more stories I wish to start, and after that, I will focus on all existing stories I have present. Hope you all find this first chapter to your liking.