"I don't understand! Why do you insist on seeking revenge on the Princess for something that happened 300 years ago!" A navy blue alicorn yelled across the room to the unicorn stood on the other side.
"You really are stupid, I never did anything wrong, Celestia had no right to exile me!" The unicorn replied, his voice was bitter and full of spite towards his brother.
"Yes she did, you did something that no pony should do, the worst of crimes the worst thing anypony could dream of doing! You ruined my life and I've never received a sorry! You boss me around like a slave and I hate it!" The alicorn yelled. Ever since the two where exiled from Eqestria there arguments had become more and more violent. But one thing the younger of the two never understood, was why they didn't get along, when as colts they where as close as two brothers could be. The unicorns horn started to glow brightly. The alicorn took a step backwards, his magic was no longer strong enough to compete with his brothers. His abilities having deteriorated, simply though lack of use, the horn on his head meant very little to him anymore.
"Come with me." The unicorn smiled slyly. "Lets put this plan into action."
"Wait what--" The alicorn tried to reply but his brother used the teleportation spell before he had a chance to finish his sentence, this would be the first time in many years that he had set hoof in Eqestria.
In Ponyville, Twilight Sparkle was cleaning up the library, a black unicorn sat on the upper floor reading though a book on magic, he could hear the unicorn mare contestantly telling him to help, but he didn't listen.
Just as she finished cleaning up, there was a knock at the door.
"Coming!" She said cheerfully as she trotted over to the door, as she opened it, she was shocked at who was stood there.
"P-Princess Luna..What are you doing here?" She asked, rather confused.
"Don't you know Twilight Sparkle, my sister said she was going to inform you of my visit to Ponyville." Luna said.
"Did she...I don't remember receiving a letter from Princess Celestia about you coming to visit, maybe she forgot." Twilight smiled as Luna stepped forward into the house.
"My sister does not simply forget Twilight." Luna said, rather surprised that Twilight would suggest such a thing.
"Well..urr..." Twilight stuttered, not sure on how to reply.
"Where is your spouse Twilight?" Luna asked.
"Princess..He's not my spouse, we're just friends, but he's upstairs if you wish to talk to him." Twilight smiled, blushing slightly at Luna's statement. Luna walked upstairs and towards the unicorn stallion who was still sat on the bed reading his book. She peered over his shoulder to see what he was reading.
"You know its not very polite to read over other ponies shoulders." He said, his deep voice showing no emotion, he clearly hadn't noticed who was stood behind him.
"That is no way to talk to your princess." Luna snapped. The unicorn turned his head and nearly dropped his book as he saw the princess standing behind him. He jumped to his feet and smiled.
"Sorry Princess I didn't notice that it was you." He said smiling.
"Very well." Luna said.
"Why are you here anyway Princess?" He asked.
"I came to see how the two of you are doing with your studies." Luna smiled.
"Oh, well, every things going great." He smiled as he jumped of the bed. "Twilight's been studying some spell, not sure what
it does, she won't tell me."
"You'll find out." Twilight smiled as she walked into the room. "You haven't told me much about what you've been doing recently either."
"True."
"You two are so cute together." Luna smiled. Both unicorns starting blushing at what she had said.
"Princess, I already told you, we're not dating, where just friends." Twilight said.
"Who said we're not dating." The stallion smiled as he trotted past her and down the stairs. Twilight just sighed.
"I think you two would make a cute couple." Luna whispered in Twilight's ear, making her blush even more.
"Princess..." Twilight muttered, she was annoyed but yet she knew that Luna was only teasing.
In Canterlot, two of the Royal Guards where heading towards the thrown room where Princess Celestia was. As they walking in, the Princess looked at them, rather confused.
"Why are you two here, is there a problem?" She asked.
"Yes your highness." The Pegasus guard said. "Two stallions who where exiled from Eqestria many years ago have been seen near Ponyville."
"Who are these ponies?" Celestia asked as she approached the two guards.
"We do not know there names as of yet but one of them is dark blue Alicorn, the other is a dark red Unicorn, from what data we can find they where exiled at least three hundred years ago, we also know that the Alicorn was once a high ranking member of the Royal Guard." The unicorn guard said.
"Could it be.." Celestia muttered.
"Is there a problem princess?" The Pegasus asked.
"I think I know who these ponies are, but I fear they may be attempting something dangerous, if you do manage to capture them, do not bring the Alicorn to harm, I know who he is, I will talk with him myself if needed." She said calmly.
"Very well Princess." Both guards said at the same time as they turned and left the room. When they where gone, Celestia looked out of the window, and thought.
Could it be who I think it is, could he have returned, but how, they where exiled so many years ago there's no way they could both have survived so long...
**Some 300 years ago**
"Captain!" Shouted a unicorn guard as he ran over to the dark blue alicorn who was dressed in a navy blue and black guard uniform.
"What is it?" The alicorn asked.
"The riots have become uncontrollable, almost every guard has become injured from trying to fight them away from the castle." The guard panted as he caught his breath.
"I see." The alicorn said, trying to remain calm. For the past week, ponies across Eqestria had started forming riots though all the major towns and cities. No pony really knew why, and the mass of ponies around the castle where becoming to great to fight back.
"Only your magic can fend them off now Captain." The unicorn said. The alicorn simply nodded, he unfolded his wings, and with one flap, he was high into the air and flying towards the crowd of ponies, as he started to near the riots, his horn started to glow brightly, he landed in the middle of the crowd, as a group of angry ponies started to charge towards him, a flash of bright white light came from his horn, surrounding the whole crowd When the light cleared, all the ponies who had been rioting where laying on the ground, as they opened there eyes and looked around, many questioned why they where there. The alicorn looked around and smiled. One young colt walked over to him and asked what had happened.
"I was simply doing my job." The alicorn smiled before flying off.
This was to be the last time he would serve the Princess at such a critical time.
About a month later, the young Alicorn was reading the local newspaper when he saw a familiar face on the front page, he read though the article, and was shocked at what it said. Before he could say anything or get his head round it, he was called into the throne room. He put the paper down and walked threw the corridor, trying not to show any feelings about what he had just read.
"You called for me Princess." he said calmly as he walked into the room.
"Yes, as you've probably read Captain, your brother has been arrested for performing an act that I will not mention, I'm afraid the only punishment is exile." Celestia said calmly. The alicorn closed his eyes and thought for a moment before replying.
"Very well Princess. I too believe that is the only punishment, but where will he be sent?" the alicorn asked.
"I do not wish to send him to the moon, so he will be sent many many miles from Eqestria." She said. The Captain nodded in agreement, but before he could turn to leave, the Princess spoke once more. "And I'm also afraid to say that you will be going with him, as some of the ponies in Canterlot have said that they do not trust a pony who's brother is a criminal, to be the captain of the Royal Guard."
"But Princess I would never do anything to harm anypony unless it was completely necessary. I stopped the riots last month and I've done so much before and since." the Alicorn said frantically, suddenly rather frightened. "Surely you could just strip me of my title. Please Princess I beg of you, me and my brother haven't got along very well since I became Captain, he probably only did what he did out of jealousy, I just can't spend the rest of my immortal life with him." he said as he fell to his knees, his voice becoming wobbly. Celestia was aware of what had happened in his past, he knew what he meant when he said his 'immortal life', she thought for a moment before speaking again.
"I'm sorry Captain but these are my decision." She said calmly, her voice showing no emotion, her horn started to glow faintly and a small flash of light appeared on the young stallions flank, when it cleared, his Cutie mark was gone. He looked at his flank and tears started to form in his eyes, the mark he had worked so hard for, was gone..forever. He slowly stood, and bowed his head to the Princess. "Collect your things and then return here in no more than six hours, you and your brother will be dealt with then." Celestia said as the alicorn turned and walked out the room.
As he walked out the door, a tear fell from his eye and landed on the floor below him, as he walked towards his room, the guards who knew what had happened felt sympathy towards him, telling him that everything was going to be ok, but yet he couldn't cheer up. He held his wings tightly against his flank, as to cover it, he was still finding it hard to realise that this was going to be his last day in Eqestria, ever..
Lets Put This Plan Into Action
Cross Bone and his brother, Dark Blade walked though Ponyville, both where getting strange looks from passers by.
"Where exactly are we going?" Cross Bone asked his brother as they neared the town centre.
"You'll see." Dark Blade replied, not taking his eyes of the road ahead.
"No, that's not good enough, I want to know, I have to know, why won't you tell me?" the alicorn said, determined to find out what he was doing in Ponyville. He'd never been there before and couldn't even remember the place.
After a while, they neared a large tree like house, Dark Blade stopped a few metres from it and smiled.
"What is this place?" Cross Bone asked.
"Stop asking questions!" the dark unicorn snapped. Cross Bone stepped back in fear, he didn't want to get in the way of his brother, especially when he was angry. Cross Bone may of had the ability of flight, but he wasn't a very strong flyer, he couldn't stay air borne for long periods of time, and after flying he was worn out and short of breath, meaning he'd be a sitting duck if his brother were to attack.
As Dark Blade's horn started to glow, and a white light surrounded the two brothers, Cross Bone knew that whatever his brother was planning, had something to do with that house, but what..
Twilight was reading though a book on the ground floor of the library when a bright light appeared in the middle of the room. As the light faded, a dark blue alicorn stood there, motionless.
"Who-Who are you.." Twilight stuttered. Not sure of what was going on. But before he could reply a scream came from the upper floor and she quickly galloped up the stairs. "Shadow! What's going on!" She yelled to the black unicorn stallion stood at the top.
"Not sure, but that unicorn appeared out of no where and he's trying to harm the Princess." Shadow replied as he looked at Twilight. He was good at staying calm in tense situations, but this was different, who was this colt and what did he want..
It was Dark Blade, and he wanted Luna. The alicorn leaped over Shadow and Twilight but recieved a strong buck from the black unicorn as he landed in front of them, the impact caused him to fall to the floor.
"I won't hurt her." He muttered.
"Yeah right! Who are you anyway!" Twilight asked sternly as she watched the alicorn slowly rise to his feet.
"My name is Cross Bone, I was Captain of the Royal Guard many years ago. I have a feeling I know what my brothers trying to do. But I promise you that Luna will not come to harm." Cross Bone said, his voice was shaky, and his side still hurt from where Shadow had kicked him.
"Yeah, of course you where the Captain of the guard." Twilight said, she wasn't believing any of what the alicorn was saying. Shadow tried to take a step forward and help Luna, but Cross Bone stopped him.
"You can't stop him, even I can't, his magic is strong and he can't be defeated by a single pony." Cross Bone said, his voice was calm, despite was going on behind him.
"Twilight Sparkle! Shadow! Please help!!" Luna screamed as Dark Blade pinned her to the wall.
"Move it mister!!" Twilight snarled as she took a step towards Cross Bone.
"Just trust me. Look it up, I was the Captain and I did many good deeds for Celestia. I will not let Luna come to harm, just trust me." the alicorn said as he lowered his head to Twilight's height. She thought for a moment, she wasn't sure what to think. But while Cross Bone was distracted, Shadow walked passed him and started to approach Dark Blade.
"Sorry but the Princess is mine!" the red unicorn snarled and another white light appeared. When it cleared, the brothers where gone..and so was the Princess.
"Where's the Princess!" Twilight screamed! "Shadow! What did you do?!"
"I didn't do anything, I started to approach the unicorn and he just disappeared." Shadow said.
"Oh, this is bad, this is very very very bad." the unicorn mare said to no one in particular.
"Can we trust him?" the stallion asked. Still slightly confused as to what had just happened.
"What do you mean, can we trust him?" Twilight said sternly.
"Well, can we trust that stallion. Is he who he said he is or not." Shadow said as he walked down stairs. "Something caught my eye though, actually two things, first off, he was an alicorn, second, he had no cutie mark, and neither did the unicorn."
"An alicorn, but the only alicorns are royals...unless he is a royal."
"That doesn't explain as to why neither of them have cutie marks, I think we need to do some research before we start panicking." Twilight didn't reply, she walked past him and started looking though some books. "Twilight, listen to me, if you start worrying then its just going to be harder to get this sorted." Still no reply. "Read this." He smiled as he picked up a book with his magic and held it front of her.
"The Royal Guard manuscripts.." She muttered as she read the title. "Where did you find this?"
"I found it when I was cleaning up about a week ago." He smiled. The red glow around the book disappeared and was replaced by purple as Twilight took the book and started flicking though. "If he really was the Captain of the Royal Guard, then it should say in that book somewhere."
"Hmm, here we go." She said as she found the right page.
"What does say?" He asked as he walked over to her.
"Name: Cross Bone. Rank: Captain. Species: Alicorn. Cross Bone was part of the Royal Guard for five years and worked as Captain for two of them. He left his job when he and his brother where exiled from Eqestria. Neither have been since." She read aloud. "Theres more but I don't think it'll really help us."
"So he was telling the truth. And if they where exiled then that would explain as to why neither had cutie marks."
"How so?"
"Well, if I remember correctly, when a pony is exiled from Eqestria, there cutie mark is magically removed by the Princess before they are sent away."
"I see. Hold on a second. It says here that he was born around three hundred and twenty five years ago. How does that make sense."
"They do say that some alicorns are immortal."
"Yes I know, but the other pony was a unicorn, not an alicorn." Twilight said. Now she was confused.
"Hmm, you have a point." Shadow said, how was it possible for two ponies who weren't royalty to survive so long, especially since only one of them was an alicorn..
"I just hope the Princess is Ok.." Twilight mumbled. Shadow put his hoof on her shoulder and smiled.
"She'll be fine, don't worry about it."
