Death's Judgement

The four summoners shook their heads as the blowback of the energy faded. Luna glanced at the circle and was the first to see it empty, she spun to see the wards on the door disengaged, the door wide open. She sprang to her feet, he head clearing, as she shouted to her fellows.

"To your feet, The one known as Onyx has fled! We must notify...."

"No one" Sunset interrupted. "Princess, we did this without the knowledge of anyone, including Celestia. We have to handle this ourselves, we knew the risks, now we have to deal with them."

"He won't case trouble." Spike groaned.

"How does thee know this Sir Spike?" Questioned the Night Princess. "The Nightshade were well known for working behind the scenes, I fear a vicious predator has been released into our world."

But it was Trixie that answered. "You heard him, his last world was burning, but there was something else, he let his mask slip for just a second, when he triggered the backlash. Wherever he is from Equestria is heaven to him, he won't risk being sent to nowhere. So he will vanish and rebuild, and honestly he doesn't seem the conquering type, MOTHER." She spat the last word. Luna's head shot towards Trixie, her mouth open to protest. Trixie, however spoke over whatever the Princess was trying to say.

"Trixie is a show mare, Trixie know's when someone is lying, Trixie has had to perform cold readings for years. He wasn't lying when it came to that, the only thing he lied about was why he came. We summoned someone used to word play and double talk, Sunset you started to realize when we were all sparing with him. He lies except where a truth can hurt you more." Trixie paused and took a breath, "and he wasn't lying about Trixie and Sunset's mothers," Trixe smirked and blushed again, "nor the proposition to Sunset and Trixie. Nor where you lying Shimmer, you really think Trixie's cute?" A smirk rose to Trixie's face as she watched the Blush on Sunset's.

Sunset faltered for a moment then recovered, "Trixie, how would we have known, she was your mom? He couldn't have, he was counting in the fact that both you and Luna have similarities, ones that can make it appear that he knew one way or another, he himself doesn't know, just drew a conclusion from what he observed, what doesn't make sense is why he would insinuate that I am Celestia's daughter, or that there was a goddess of the sun. I mean, there is no possible way for you to be Luna's daughter, the timeline isn't right." Sunset paused, then continued, "and I that isn't true then any conclusions he drew past that point weren't either."

Princess Luna then spoke up. "Indeed Trixie, thou art a mare I would be proud to have as my daughter but though I did have a special somepony before I was locked away, to the best of my knowledge I never conceived before I became Nightmare Moon. Please calm yourself, those of house Nightshade had an unerring sense of deduction that each was taught to use as a weapon as much for knowledge. He did so to confuse us, while he tested his boundaries, please let us not fight amongst ourselves."

Trixie sighed, "You're both right, I needed to just clear my head. Trixie will be fine, losing Sparkle just has hit harder then I thought it would. Still both you and he are telling the truth as seen and understood." Trixie paused and advanced on Sunset, "I will get my answer from you Shimmer, but not now." She looked to Spike, "Spike needs to get to Mayor Mares to make the final preparations. The Mayor is the executrix of Sparkle's affairs, Spike needs to get to her office, or he will arouse suspicion."

Spike raised his head and looked at the three mares, "Yeah sorry, I really do have to go be Twilight's Assistant one more time. Like I said he doesn't want to do anything bad here. He honestly just looked tried, as if he had done this task to many times." Spike took a breath. "Let's just meet up at Twilight's funeral, I have to make arrangements and they will go quicker without you three." Spike rubbed the back of his head, seems when he hit the ground one of his scales rubbed off, looking at the worried looks, he decided not to complain, they had other things to worry about. "I'm fine or as fine as I can be, we need to get ahead of this."

Luna nodded her head, "We will all meet later. In the meantime Sunset and Trixie, I need you two to look for the Nightshade. That house once upon a time was my spies and investigators. Although in happier times they where performers and travelers, actors and storytellers. They where masters of planning and counter planning. They worked on the ground to lay the foundations for the Thestrals to triumph and had strange powers over things seen and unseen. I was saddened when I could find no record of them or trace upon my return, as if they he never existed. But it was not surprising, even I never new the true extent of their family and it's allies, nor where any of them where placed. Please, I need him found."

"Luna, could he have been seeing a family resemblance in me from that? Could I have been descended from the Nightshade?". Trixie asked. "I was adopted, so would that make sense?"

"Maybe child, but we will look into this later, I need to find everything I can about what happened to the Nightshade. There are many I can ask about it, I haven't because whatever happened hadn't been important." Luna's eyes narrowed. "In fact I think I know exactly how to find this out. It's time I had a heart to hear with with my sister."