A Silver Lining The Assassins Story

Chapter 4: Break out and Betrayal

I woke up in a cell, the rust evident throughout the bars meaning it wasn’t maintained regularly. There was a damp smell of rotting wood and the cell appeared to be empty. No guards or knights to hold me down.

“Ow my head feels so light,” I said, looking around to find that the prison was a few levels down. I looked down at my cloak to find I was completely stripped of my weapons and possessions. I sighed realising that there was no point in breaking out, not yet anyway, better to wait for the guards to escort me out and talk to the princesses. Sighing I walked away from the metal door and lay down on the haystack that was given to me as a bed and shut my eyes.

“Wake up,” a voice said.

“Huh,” I said dazed by the sudden voice.

“We are taking you to the Princess, do not resist or we will have to use force on you,” The unicorn knight said in a gruff voice.

Oh yay, meeting with the Princesses. Thinking about the time with the last meeting with the Princess of Germany, that was a messy fight and the end of a monarchy. There were two unicorn knights, both in shimmering silver armour, each holding a spear.

“Hold out your hands,” the knight commanded. Standing up from my bed, I placed my hands in front of me. The unicorn’s horn glowed with power and a restraint was placed on my hands, the cuffs the colour blue. The door clicked, and I walked out slowly the knight tugging at my cuffs.

“You will only speak when the Princess asks you to,” the unicorn said tugging at my cuffs again, digging into the skin, “You will answer all the questions asked by the princesses and when they are satisfied with your answers, you will be placed in the cell until further notice,”

We walked, I mean, I walked up towards the stairs, one knight in front, one behind nudging me every so often if I slowed down, typical guards. I let my eagle vision flow through me to find the place was full of knights, but I began notice strange things about the castle, secret passages that lead to various places and cleverly placed traps. Hmm Interesting, maybe I can use it to my advantage, after passing through many hallways and doors, I was led to a grand throne room where the princesses were sitting in their respective thrones, the sun setting down could be seen through the windows.

My escorts of Knights took their position next to the princesses and stared at me.

“I am Princess Celestia,” Celestia said, her head up high showing her grace.

“And I am Princess Luna,” Luna said, also raising her head.

“And together we are both rulers of Equestria and you are in the kingdom of the Two Sisters,” Celestia said, I nodded realising that the name of the land was related to horses and I giggled for some odd reason.

“Silence!” Luna said, “You have no right to laugh!” I stood there silently, waiting patiently but then spotted my weaponry and possessions on a tray next to Luna.

“Today, you are here for the attempted murder of Sombra, but first tell us who and what are you?” Celestia said.

“My name is Silver Adler and I am a Human,” I said, Celestia intrigued used her magic to levitate my arms around a bit, “Tis Strange” Celestia thought to Luna.

“And what is your profession,” Luna said.

“That is for me to know and you to find out,” I said smugly.

“This creature is mocking us Sister,” Luna thought.

“It’s alright Sister, we will deal with insults later,” Celestia thought.

“Ok Silver, what are these?” Celestia said holding up my hidden blades.

“Those are my hidden blades which I tried to kill Sombra with,” I said casually.

“I see, what about this,” Luna said holding up my air rifle.

“That’s a customized rifle,” I said.

“What is a rifle?” Luna said, accidentally cocking the hammer.

“I would put that down now,” I said cautiously, moving a step forward, “I can show you what it does, but I need something not expensive,”

“Hmm, should we sister?” Luna thought.

“I don’t think, he wants to harm us anyway, it should be alright,” Celestia thought.

“Ok but if thou do anything too suspicious, the guards will use force to take thou down,” Luna said, floating the gun towards me, the shackles disappearing, and I smiled dryly.

“Hmm can’t remember if I placed a sleep or a shrapnel grenade in it” I thought, checking the barrel of the rifle and peered into the slot, the sleep grenade stared right back at me.

“Thee, can use this empty pot,” Celestia said lifting a brown pot, I took aim and shot a perfect arc into the pot, the grenade rattling as gas slowly spewed out.

“Is it meant to do something?” Luna looked in confusion, her eyes slowly drooping and collapsed where she stood.

“Huh, what did you do?” Celestia said drowsily, trying to stay awake and fell on top of her sister.

“Just something to relieve your mind, while I escape,” I said lifting a cloth to my face, seeing the rest of the guards fall to the floor.

“Well then that was easier than I thought it be,” I said, gathering up my possessions I then realised that Ash’s pendant wasn’t on the tray.

“Grrrh, I have to come back here,” I groaned in annoyance, activating my eagle vision to find a passage underneath the throne. I pushed the stone throne away from the tile, the grinding sound causing a guard to stir in its sleep. Lifting the tile, a roughly made dark hole was in place, it led roughly 2 metres down and led around the back to the garden by the looks of my eagle vision. I jumped down and moved the heavy throne back in place with a crack of space left and walked away listening to the breathing of ponies.

I was the first one to wake up. “Oh, what happened,” I said, looking up to see that Silver has disappeared and that my sister was on me.

“Sister,” I whispered.

“Huh,” Celestia snorted.

“Wake up,” I said.

“I don’t wanna,” Celestia whined.

I sighed, sometimes I have to act the eldest, I stood up sensing for Silver with magic and making Celestia fall flat on her face.

“I didn’t eat the cake last night,” Celestia yelled all of a sudden, getting back up on her hooves, awakening the rest of the guards on the floor.

“It seems to me that Silver has vanished without a trace,” I said, “He has made a fool out of us sister,”

“He may have but he did not kill any of us or any of the guards,” Celestia pointed out.

“You do have a point, sister” I said, staring at the shining moon, “What do we do sister when he comes back?”

“What do you mean?” Celestia asked.

“He took everything of the tray, but I did not place back his crescent pendant, I have taken it to my room, so he is most definitely going to take it back,” I said.

“And why did you take it sister?” Celestia asked.

“No reason…” I said blushing slightly trying to think of an excuse, “Well it was because it was the shape of the moon that I thought it could be important and had something to do about me.”

“Hmm, we could place the castle under lockdown, so we can catch him,” Celestia said.

“That would not do as everypony would be concerned about the castle and the state it is in,” I said.

“Actually, I will place an enchantment on the pendant so if he does take it we can track him down later,” Celestia said firmly believing the idea was perfect.

“That is a great idea Sister!” I beamed teleporting to her room in a flash taking the pendant and placing it on the hoof of Celestia. Celestia’s horn glowed lightly with power and the pendant was lifted in the air landing back into my hoof.

YAWN

“Sister thou just had a nap,” I rolled my eyes, “Well I must be off I have nightly duties to attend to now,” and disappeared. Celestia yawned again causing the guards in the rest of the room to yawn simultaneously.

A few days later, midday in the Everfree forest.

“I’m going to need to track down Luna,” I thought, realising that I could not wait any longer, “might as well learn about the society while I eavesdrop on the location of Ash’s pendant.” I neared the castle peering through the walls. Luna was still sleeping as I came closer and realised that she was nocturnal. Coming to a halt, I realised there was no reason for me to go to the castle till later when she was awake.

“It might be better to learn about the society while I wait but I have to be careful about the guards.” I thought, landing on top of the thatched roof of a farmer watching the markets bustling full of ponies, unicorns and pegasus. I came to notice that they only sold specific things like cakes, vegetables and other produce but no livestock, “They seem to be all vegetarian,” I remarked, my stomach grumbled for the cake that was just so close but so far away. “I wonder what kind of money system they have.” peering over the edge of the roof to see the pony vendor holding a bag full of carrots passing it to a pegasus while the pegasus handed back 2 coins. “I can’t tell if my money is worth the same amount as theirs,” I thought.

It was then I heard a kid unicorn humming to himself walking along the alleyway behind the house holding a bag of money with his magic. My eagle vision kicked in and I slowly crept to the other side, at the edge of the roof to find out that there was an older unicorn yelling at the child with a hoof held out, for the money and his 4 gang members standing behind. This angered me, and I leapt off the roof, time slowing down. Grabbing the one yelling at the blue child unicorn, I slammed its face into the fence, knocking it unconscious. I grabbed the two nearest members in mere seconds and crashed their two faces together and the other two backed off scared.

“Boo!” I said.

“AHHHH!” they cried out flying off.

“What’s your name?” I asked casually turning to face the child.

“Um…Moonlight Astral” the blue unicorn stuttered.

“Don’t be afraid, being afraid won’t get you very far in life,” I said softly thinking about the time with my father helping me up after I was beaten up by a bully.

“Ok mister…” Moonlight Astral said.

“Alder,” I said, “Hold on to those coins,”

“They are called bits” Moonlight Astral stammered, his eyes fearing towards me.

“Sorry I’m not from around here, but anyway, how about I walk you to wherever you need to if you are scared,” I said, realising at what I just said.

“I was trotting to the well down this alley to make a wish,” said Moonlight Astral,

“Alright let’s go,” I said, “What were you going to wish?”

“I can’t tell you that, or it won’t come true,” Moonlight Astral said, I chuckled at the innocence of the child. We walked towards the well, all ponies stopped to stare at me, out of place as I was, but I had a plan. They were shocked at my appearance, not knowing what to do but I acted invisible as if I was there by myself.

“Would you like a bit Mister Alder” Moonlight Astral said.

“Oh, it’s quite alright Moonlight, I can’t stay right now, but here,” I said kneeling, pulling out an apple and gave it to him, “Remember to stay strong and to fight for what is right,” and pulled out a smoke bomb disappearing. When the smoke cleared everyone in that vicinity rushed towards Moonlight comforting him and I chuckled as I heard him say “Help me” drowning in the sea of ponies. While I held myself in the well. After everyone cleared out of the way it was nearing dusk as I clambered out of the well, the area already cleared of ponies. My hands ached holding on to the walls of the well, “I hope Moonlight is alright” I thought, looking towards the castle ready to deal with the real problem.

The castle was full of knights but as I neared the castle they changed shifts with a different knight. The armour was as dark as night and they appeared stricter than the day ones. “I better be careful around them,” I thought crouching on the branch of the tree. I activated my eagle vision to find that Luna was waking up. I travelled to her balcony and landed softly and stood next to the door listening. Luna opened the door to find her Lieutenant Knight standing in the hallway reporting for duty.

“I want a full sweep of the area from both sky and land, and report back to me when done,” Luna commanded.

“As you command, Princess Luna,” The lieutenant said saluting and trotted off.

“Now to get ready to lower the moon,” Luna said, trotting towards the door of her balcony. I felt her presence and I quickly leaped of the balcony to hang from my grappling hook. Luna looked to the sky and stared at the sunset, the orange hue on her face, warming her to the bones and the beauty of the sky slowly changing. Luna’s horn glowed a light blue and moved the moon, I stared in awe realising that the Princess of the Night was actually moving the moon with her magic. “I better be careful with the Princesses, she could kill me without a thought if they wanted to,” I thought. The sky twinkled with the stars, shimmering as they came to life, painting the sky with her horn to create a unique background reflecting on Luna’s mood at the time.

“All done,” Luna said, beaming at the sight hoping that everypony could see it. She trotted back inside and closed the balcony doors to go to night court. I was still staring at the moon when a whooshing sound could be heard, and my eagle vision told me that a pegasus was patrolling the area. I climbed the balcony and quickly barged through the door sliding beneath the bed to hide from the guards, the pegasus landed with a thump on the balcony.

“Luna, forgot to close her door again,” The pegasus guard sighed, shutting the doors about to leave when I sneezed.

“Oh, crap,” I whispered, knowing that the Pegasus definitely heard me.

“Who goes there?” the pegasus demanded bringing out his 2 swords with his bat like wings. The blade glimmering in the moonlight. “I heard you sneeze in here!”

I waited patiently until he turned towards the balcony door and then I struck. From behind I grabbed his wings and clanged them together, the swords dropped. I then held his throat slowly choking him into submission, until he regained his senses and flapped his wings about knocking me to and fro around the room. But it was too much for him as the lack of oxygen got to him, he dropped slowly to the floor and was knocked out. I got up bruised from the multiple banging to the wall and then realised that Luna was in the room.

“I can explain,” I said holding up my hands and pulling my hood down, in defence.

“I know what thou are looking for and I don’t know who you are truly so how about a bargain that you can’t refuse?” Luna asked craftily.

“And what would that be?” I asked.

“I give thee this pendant that is so important to thee, and thou shall give me answers to my questions,” Luna said.

“Or I could take it from you without you even knowing,” I said craftily.

“I would like to see you try,” Luna smirked, readying her magic.

“Actually, you know what I’ll play your little game,” I said, taking out the chair from the dresser table and sat down the back of the chair facing Luna.

“Um, ok then,” Luna said, she was not prepared for the sudden change.

“I would also like to place one more term down before we begin, you must not tell Celestia about this because I don’t trust her, this is just between you and me,” I said.

“And why is that?” Luna asked.

“Because she nearly burnt me in the process of dealing with King Sombra,” I said plainly.

“That seems reasonable enough,” Luna said, “Knights, take Dreamy out of my room and place her in the infirmary while I deal with this, also do not tell Celestia about his arrival.” Moments later a unicorn in dark armour appeared and touched the unconscious pegasus and flashed away.

“Ok firstly what you ask I may not be able to answer because of personal reasons,” I said.

“Hmm we will see, first question, where are thee from Silver?” Luna asked.

“I come from New York, America,” I said.

“I see,” Luna said, having no clue where that is pondering if it is even in Equestria.

“So, what is this place to be exact,” I asked, curious about the actual place I am in.

“I’ll be the one asking questions here, but we are on Equestria in the Everfree forest,” Luna said.

“What is on your flank?” I asked ignoring her request.

“Oh, that is called a cutie mark, they tell of the secret talent that thee possesses inside,” Luna said.

“Oh, kind of like a tattoo,” I said bringing up my right forearm showing the Assassin’s insignia.

“That is a weird symbol, what does it mean?” Luna asked tilting her head,

“It means freedom and is based on my hood,” I said bringing my hood up to show the ‘A’ like shape.

“Hmm, well it's getting late,” Luna said looking at the clock on the wall reading 12:00 am, “I have other duties to attend to, you have answered one of my questions so far, so you don’t get this,” lifting Ash’s Pendant, dangling it in my face.

“Fine, I’ll meet you tomorrow at dawn,” I sighed moving the chair in place ready to leap out of the balcony when Luna called.

“Silver, don’t stress too much about your dreams, they are only just…” Luna said softly.

“She knows,” I leapt out of the window before she could say anymore.

At the crack of dawn, the thestrals started changing shifts with the day knights. The Day Knights did not like the Thestrals that much, it reminded them too much of the terrifying vamponies they were only told about as little foals. The two groups were always having brawls with each other over who was more superior but this time it sparked the interest of one Day Knights attention to the Thestrals conservation.

“Did you hear what happened with Luna?” Moon Petal asked.

“Didn’t she find the weird two-legged creature fighting with Dreamy,” Rain star said.

“Yeah and apparently that creature has to come back until he answers all questions from Luna,” Moon Petal said.

“That is interesting, I must report to Celestia at once,” Solar thought galloping towards Celestia’s Chambers.

Dusk approached, the beautiful orange glow of the sun slowly faded into the night sky as a shadow landed on the balcony of the castle. The shadow silently creeped into the room of the princess looking for the pendant, it was then spotted on Luna’s table dresser. Slowly edging forward trying to not wake the sleeping princess, he grasped it. The moment his fingers touched the string, it gave him a massive shock and he was blasted back several feet and landed on Luna’s bed.

“AHHHH,” Luna screamed, scrambling up the bed to find Silver was sprawled on the bed. “Oh, dear me Silver, are you alright?” then Luna’s eye caught the sight of cackling lighting from the pendant on the table. Luna sighed, “Well, then he wasn’t joking,” and got up to the bathroom.

Silver gasped as his eyes sparked with lightning and then back to normal grey eyes as he got up to find Luna gone from her bed.

“Ow, my head hurts,” Silver said.

Luna laughed in her chair as Silver held his head.

“Thou took quite a shock,” Luna said, “But it is time to answer my questions,”

“Do you have water?” Silver said, realising that his mouth was parched.

Luna disappeared for a second then reappeared with a glass of water in a blue hue of colour.

“Thank you,” Silver replied.

“Now the first ordeal of questions, what is your profession?” Luna asked, “and no smart comments,”

“I am an assassin and I work in the dark to serve the light,” Silver sighed knowing that there was no way around it, but it was quite obvious by the weaponry that he held.

“So, you kill for money?” Luna asked.

“No, that’s a mercenary,” Silver said, “I take the life of high social status people such as Kings or Queens for the freedom of citizens and serve justice to those that do not use their power correctly,”

“So that would include me,” Luna said gulping at Silver, knowing full well that if she did anything wrong he would come kill her.

“Yes, it would, also what are you?” Silver asked, “You’re not a Pegasus, nor a Unicorn but both at once”

“Oh, I am an Alicorn which is both a Pegasus and Unicorn which you deduced,” Luna said, “You also seem to know of pegasi and unicorns but not Alicorns, why is that?”

“Oh, Pegasi come from Greek mythology and Unicorns come from folklore,” Silver said.

“So everypony is a myth?” Luna gasped.

“In my world, we have regular ponies and horses,” Silver said, Luna gasped at the word ‘horse’.

“DO NOT SAY THAT WORD IN FRONT OF ME!” Luna boomed in her Canterlot voice.

“What, horse?” Silver said confused over the meaning of a horse.

Luna realised maybe she overreacted a bit because of Silver’s face, Silver on the other hand chose his next words carefully.

“A horse, in my world is a creature like ponies but bigger and taller and have a lot of strength,” Silver said.

“Oh, HAHAHA,” Luna chuckled, realising that the two are completely different things.

“What does horse mean here?” Silver asked.

“You must not say it in front of anyone as it offends everypony, it means a pony that is a whore,” Luna said.

“Oh…” Silver said, trying to think of a way to change the subject.

“What about your family Silver, do you have any back where you live?” Luna asked.

“I have my father who is the leader of the Assassin’s for America, and my two elder brothers,” Silver said sadly, thinking back to the past where the father wrestled against all 3 at once and still managed to win even with coordination. Luna realised it was a soft topic and decided to ask about it more later.

“There are more of you?” Luna asked.

“We fight against the Templars,” Silver explained, “The Templars want to rule over our world through their eyes meaning no free will where everyone was subject to their rules, we assassins exist to fight against the templars and to stop them from the conquest over free will,”

“So, the Templars are the evil ones, interesting,” Luna said, her view on Silver have changed dramatically as she has come to realise why there was so much killing.

“And thee must kill?” Luna said.

“Nothing is true, everything is permitted,” Silver said mysteriously, Luna tilted her head in confusion.

“It is about the morality of what we do. In acting and killing those that are, the evil harmony and peace may last and is justifiable by our actions,” Silver explained.

“Ah, I see.” Luna said understanding the truth behind the saying, Luna thought about the next question to ask then realised that Silver had terrible dreams and would always yell out the words Ash as if missing someone.

“Do you have a special somepony?” Luna asked blushing slightly.

“A what?” Silver said, knowing fully well what it meant.

“Someone that you love dearly,” Luna explained.

Silver sighed heavily, “I did,”

“Did?” Luna asked realising that was what the screaming meant.

“Please don’t ask,” Silver said, as his mind started to delve into the recent memories, Luna could sense his hurt and decided that tonight was enough.

“Thou are free to go now, I have more questions later but today is enough.” Luna said and looked away for a second only to find the bed empty, “Why did I have to ask if he had somepony special to him” Luna got up and trotted to the balcony space and stared into the night sky.

Silver woke up his mind drifting to the deeply etched memories of his love, hating it that Luna reminded him about it. He was trying to bury it as deep as he could, but it was hard to. He looked to the horizon to see the sun slowly drifting upwards and the warm sun touched his cloak warming him to the bones. Silver looked down to see that the markets had started early, he clambered through the trees thinking about Luna moving towards the town to see if anyone was in trouble, “Why must Luna ask me about if I loved someone, was it really necessary?” Silver then saw the same unicorn foal Moonlight Astral. He looked cleaner and was smiling happily next to Radiant Hope, then it dawned to Silver that Radiant was looking after Moonlight as he was an orphan. For some reason the colt looked up and to his bewilderment saw Silver kneeling down staring right back at him, he waved and smiled but Silver did not respond.

“Who are you waving at?” Radiant Hope asked, confused looking in the general direction of the wave.

“Um…” Moonlight said, looking back to see Silver had disappeared, “Nopony.”

Celestia was sitting in her throne, a bit uncomfortable at the recent news of the Assassin speaking to Luna privately and about his appearance in the general vicinity of the village in which he confronted an orphan colt and walked him to a well and then disappeared, well according to the many witnesses. Celestia waved off the thought of Silver talking to Luna originally as not being dangerous, not worrying at all until the recent news of a murder. The one murdered was of a high noble status and what was troubling Celestia as the throat had been stabbed exactly how Silver did against Sombra. Not many ponies did like the one murdered and he was also a constant nuisance to Celestia on how to keep the kingdom under control. Celestia figured out that Silver was an assassin when they confiscated his weaponry and it made him a prime suspect in the killing of the high noble status unicorn Blueblood, “Maybe I’ll pay Silver a visit later with Luna,”

*Start Last Reunion-Peter Roe*

Luna woke up with a shadow over her and she yelped only to realise that Silver was sitting on a chair reading a scroll on the geography of Equestria and the different races.

“Silver do not sneak up like that, thou almost gave me a heart attack” Luna said, standing up and stared at Silver, his clothes use to look full of grace but in the past few days it had deteriorated with everyday becoming dirtier and full of scratches. Silver didn’t look any better his face had rims around his eyes signalling the lack of sleep and the scratches across the face. “What happened Silver?” Luna asked.

“With what?” Silver asked.

“Everything, thine face, and thine clothes are almost ruined,” Luna said, “Does it have to do with thine nightmares?”

“Nightmares?” Silver asked fearing that Luna knew something.

“I know you keep on having these nightmares, I hear your cries almost every night and it has dawned on me it has to do something about your family or your loved one,” Luna said moving Silver’s chair closer to the bed. “I am here to help,”

“So, you can read my mind,” Silver sighed “You know there is a thing called privacy,” Silver said slightly raising his voice.

“I know Silver, but I am drawn to those that cry in pain in their dreams, it is my duty to save those in need, but your biology is different, and I have not been able to appear properly, I can only hear you nothing else,” Luna said hurt by the raised voice.

“It has to do with family,” Silver said. *0:55*

“Are thee sure, you keep on screaming out Ash?” Luna asked.

“Do I really have to talk about it, it’s doesn’t concern you,” Silver said looking out to the balcony listening to the soft breeze come through making Luna shiver.

“Does it have to do with your mother, you haven’t spoken of her?” Luna asked.

“No, she died giving birth to me, I am the youngest one, I have 2 older brothers Reign and Sash,” Silver said.

“Then is Ash your loved one,” Luna said knowing that the truth had hurt Silver as he looked away.

“Yes,” Silver exhaled tears dropping, Luna came forward rushing her wings covering Silver in hug in a motherly gesture, “Ssh, it’s alright, it is not right to be alone in this world”, Luna whispered, “I see thou are a kind hearted soul, who cares for those in need, thou are not alone, thou have now a little colt that looks up to thee”, Silver calmed down and hugged back Luna.

“Thank you, Luna,” Silver said wiping the tears away, Luna let go of him and suddenly had an idea.

“Why don’t we have a dance?” Luna asked.

“A dance?” Silver asked confused

“To keep thine mind off it and to strengthen our bond,” Luna said.

“Bond?” Silver said confused again.

“We are friends, right” Luna giggled, standing on her hind legs, using her wings as balance, and her horn glowing to move a gramophone needle. *1:55* Placing her forelegs on Silver’s shoulders and moving with the music. The soft melody of a piano playing as it loomed to Silver the similarity of a waltz, taking steps with Luna. The timing perfect as they moved through Luna’s room going slow, stepping left-right. Luna’s eye shone in happiness to dance with someone for the first time in years, Silver on the other hand enjoyed the delicate piano, running through his veins as his natural ability to dance surprised Luna. Their eyes locking more than once as they danced, the soft taps of the Luna hooves on the floor echoing throughout her room. It was an enjoyment that Silver took in deeply as he held onto Luna. Silver started to feel the music pace slightly quicken, it was then he realised he did not know how he was going to spin Luna. Luna had an answer to that as they slightly levitated with her magic, as both walked into the air, Silver spun Luna lifting one foreleg high and spun her. Luna giggled as she spun feeling the soft grip of Silver holding on to her back, she felt overwhelming joy as she saw Silver smiling, a genuine smile, one he had never made since Ash hugged him. Luna brought them both back on to the ground when she slipped, only to let Silver catch her. Luna could feel the breath of Silver and looked up to him, her eyes glittering under the moonlight and then she felt an urge and closed her eyes. Silver eyes widened as she moved to kiss him, her wings flaring.

*2:50*

“Solar, what do you see?” Celestia asked.

“I see Luna hugging Silver,” the knight said which confused Celestia, “Now they are dancing,” as Solar craned his neck to see through the keyhole wondering if it was necessary to do this. Celestia was bewildered by the act of Silver and Luna, “Is Silver manipulating my sister!” Celestia mane started to move as if it was in the wind, it was then the next words that blew Celestia’s top off.

“Luna’s about to kiss Silver, and Silver has a knife in his palm,” Solar said urgently.

BANG *3:08*

Celestia barged in frightening both Luna and Silver as they both stopped. Silver was terrified, quickly hiding his blade, which he had accidently set off.

“Get away from my Sister, thee assassin, Knights arrest him,” Celestia boomed.

Silver looked at Luna eyes wide, “How could you Luna?” Silver asked moving away from Luna in shock “I trusted you,”

“I have nothing to do with this,” Luna cried out.

“Sister you have every part with this murderer, now go to my room,” Celestia exploded, and zapped her away. The knights rushed forward with spears and swords, Solar taking the charge, Silver stood paralysed for the first time before instincts over took him. As they neared closer Silver pondered “Do I kill them or knock them out?” as Solar made a swipe to the head with his spear. *3:35* Silver then made the decision, leaned back from the spear and grabbed pulling it towards him. Solar unbalanced by this manoeuvre and moved forward to find a blade in his throat.

“Is that what you did to Blueblood?” Celestia shouted out, “Kill him out of cold blood?” aiming her horn at Silver and fired a beam of pure light. Silver dodged in time, but the intensity still could be felt, only for a spear to come thrusted towards his face and a spear towards his back. Silver rolled away and brought out both revolvers and shots rang throughout the castle leaving 12 dead knights. Celestia was horrified at the weapon and zapped both revolvers out of his hands leaving only a melting puddle of metal. Silver was surrounded, and he realised his best chance was to escape and not fight as it made his image degrading and started running towards the balcony doors. A spear flew past his ear, and the unicorn knight swiped the sword towards his head. Silver narrowly slid on his knees bringing out his sword and cutting in between the chinks in the armour, bringing down the knight. Silver leaped over the last pony and jumped on top of the balcony rails only to be hit by a spear in the shoulder and grimaced in pain as he made it to the nearest branch. Celestia halted the knights as Silver jumped in between the trees looking for safety. The spear was pulled out and clattered across the branches as Silver leaped for the next branch only to fall unconscious from the loss of blood and the ringing words of “FIND HIM!” from Celestia’s booming voice.

*End Song*