It’s been a few weeks since the Mystery of Mmmm, something that Dianne loves to call it, something that I would love if it would never happen to me again. Really, I’m good.

I sat in my workroom as I looked through some sketches to see what I want to do next. I hummed to myself as I heard a knock on my door. I looked over to see Irena standing in the doorway looking at me with a smile.

“Hey kiddo, what's up?” I greeted her with a smile. It seems that as more time passes on, more and more people are beginning to think Irena is my kid with the way I act towards her. She walked over to me and looked at all the pages of designs I’ve been looking through before she put a page on top of them. I blinked at this before looking over at the page of a metal cat drawing. I looked at it and saw the title of it which was called ‘Robot metal cat’.

“You want me to make a… robotic cat?” I asked her with a little confusion in my tone. I was a little confused by this, especially as it's practically out of the blue request that I am incapable of doing this on my own. I looked back at Irena as she smiled at me, blinking her eyes as if she was saying ‘Please~!!’ “Irena…” I said, wanting to say that I couldn't but then she gave me her saddest puppy dog eyes. I attempted to resist but alas, I sighed and spoke. “I'll look into it. I can't exactly work on making metal bits move on their own, not one of my forte. Which means I'll need to find someone that can help me make the machinations and such while I work on the body.” I said, explaining to her the best I could. She seemed to brighten up at this before skipping off happily. I shook my head as I looked at the drawing again, humming to myself on how I’m going to do this.

Before long I remembered that Camilla was the daughter of a clockwork smith, maybe she could help? Perhaps I should ask if she'd be able to help. I glanced at the clock, seeing that it was nearing midday. That means Blake’s shop wasn’t busy for the next bit before lunch. I groaned as I pushed my seat out and stood up before stretching my arms and legs with a satisfied hum. I was still doubtful of Irena's request but it didn't deter me from at least trying, so with that in mind, I headed up to my room and got changed into more cleaner clothes before walking up to the front door. After checking to see Irena on the couch with a book in hand, I left the house and headed straight towards Blake's shop with Irena’s drawing tucked away in my pocket.

It was a really nice day out today, no clouds up in the sky and the townsfolk were going out on their business like normal. Soon I got to Blakes shop and went inside to see Camilla sitting at the front register with a book and a sandwich in hand. The place was pretty empty but I knew it wouldn't last for a long while and quickly walked up to Camilla which got her attention out of her book.

“Hey Camilla.” I greeted the fire magi with a friendly wave. She smiled at me and put the book down.

“Hey Isaac, what’s up?” She asked me. I took a second or two to think of the question before finally asking.

“You wouldn't happen to know how to construct an automaton?” I asked her, my question was basically out of nowhere for her and it surprised her a bit. She arched a brow at this before she spoke.

“I know a few things…” She answered before letting out a quick whistle. After a moment of waiting a small bronze blur zoomed around before landing on the table. I looked at it and saw it was a small metal humming bird automaton. There were small clicks and whirring sounds coming from it as it looked around a bit. Camilla smiled at it and petted the birds head. “Yes, I know how to construct an automaton.”

“Great umm… listen, Irena came up to me earlier with a sketch of an idea she wanted me to make and well.” I said before unfolding the sketch itself and showing it to Camilla. She looked at it and smiled at it.

“Awww, she wants a metal kitty!” She cooed at this. I snorted a bit at the reaction Camilla made before she took the page from me. “Let me guess, you want help with this?”

“Yeah, I'm not really adept in the arts of machinations and at best, all I can do is the body.” I said to her with a little shrug. While I was considered a jack of all trades, there were still plenty of things that I'm not knowledgeable with. Camilla hummed at this as she looked at the drawing of the metal cat for a few moments before saying.

“There’s a lot going to go into this, but a clockwork cat is pretty easy to build and have work…” She smiled as she put the page down. “I can help you with building this after the big event coming up.” I arched a brow at this.

“What event?” I asked with curiosity in my tone. I was unaware of any event being held this week. Camilla shrugged before pulling out a fancy card.

“This Royal wedding in Canterlot, the Princess sent this one to me so I could come. Me and Blake are going to see the new happy couple.” Camilla explained, surprising me that Blake is going. I wasn't aware of this, mom didn't really mention anything about it in her last visit and it only sparked my curiosity even more.

“Odd. This is the first I've heard of it.” I said in a low muttering tone but Camilla was able to hear regardless.

“Really, well it’s just a wedding between…” She paused before looking at the invitation. “Ahh hell.” She groans.

“What?” I asked now more curious than before. Camilla didn’t say anything as she handed me the invitation for me to look at. I took it into my hands and read it.

Dear Lady Camilla Nicolette Whitlock,

You and one other are invited to the Royal Wedding of:

Miamoré Cadence Katherine

And

Marcus Aurora

We hope to see you there.

Camilla groaned again at this as she rubbed her head, the metal hummingbird hoved up and landed in her hair, letting out a small whirring sound as if it was chirping. I opened my mouth as if to say something but found myself not doing so before I shook my head and look back down at the invitation, reading the name of the supposed groom.

“Aurora… Lydia has a brother?” I said with confusion having never known Lydia’s sibling or that she even had one. Camilla looked up at me and sighed.

“Captain Marcus Aurora, he leads Princess Celestia’s Royal Guard. Some even call him the ‘Canterlots Solar Shield’.” Camilla explained with some air quotes. “He’s an alright guy, for a noble Magi but past his job he’s a little dorky.” Camilla looked at me as I blinked at this before she smiled. “What? Didn’t realized that Lydia is technically a noble as well? Though to be honest she doesn't really show it at all.” I hummed at this before handing the invitation back to Camilla, if anything I was more upset by not having heard about this beforehand. Oh well.

Before I could say anything out of the corner of my eye I saw Lydia march down the street, looking pretty pissed at something. I watched her walk down the street before disappearing again. I blinked at this before looking back at Camilla who was frowning at the invitation. I remembered that she didn’t tell me why she was annoyed.

“Right… anyway, why are you upset about it?” I asked Camilla as I peeked over at the nearby clock and seeing that I still had time before the lunch rush.

“It’s the bride… I know her...very well.” She groans a bit and continued by saying. “Remember back when I explained that I knew someone that was all about love?” She asked me.

“Vaguely but yeah.” I said honestly with half a nod. It was quite some time ago I'm sure and a lot of things occurred to make me forget other things. Camilla held up the invitation in her hand.

“Miamoré Cadence Katherine, is that same person.” She explained with a sigh. “She’s… something.” I arched a brow again at this but before I could ask, my time was up and it was now lunchtime. Like a herd of stampeding cattle, I could hear them running over towards the shop. Camilla heard this and sighed. “Sorry, but times up.” She said, giving me a sad look. I nodded at this and left before the shop was mobbed by a whole crowd of hungry townfolk. I soon found myself heading back home deep in thought while I walked. I was still miffed about not having been told about the event earlier by anyone, I always hated being out of the loop as it made me look dumb. I are smart!

I made my way back home just to see that, hanging a little bit out of the mailbox was a letter. I stared at the letter before noticing a message on it, saying sorry for this being late. I pulled it out and opened it just to see that it was the same invitation only addressed to me. I took a deep breath and sighed before heading inside with both the letter and invitation inside. It was identical to Camilla's invitation, the exception being that I am allowed whomever I choose to bring whether its one or three people.

As I walked in I saw Skyler playing a video game and Irena sitting next to her with a book on her lap. Irena saw me and was reminded of her request from earlier and grew excited before hopping off the couch before running up to me with a hopeful look. I chuckled a bit as I saw Skyler hasn’t looked up from her game, simply too absorbed in it to know what’s going on.

“Just so you know, yes. I'm going to do that cat you want, though I doubt Wisp would take it kindly.” I said to Irena, giving her a pat on the head and as a result, her smile brightened and she hopped excitedly. I smiled at this before looking back at the letter and saw that the wedding is in a few days. Damn mail service for losing my mail.

I sigh at this before seeing Irena looking at my letter oddly, trying to see what it says. I chuckled at this and simply told her.

“I've been invited to a big wedding back at Canterlot. Says here I'm allowed to invite up to three others.” I said to Irena and it definitely peaked her interest. She smiled at me in the same way she did when she showed me the picture of the robot cat drawing. “You want to come with?” I asked her. This cause the young kid to nod happily at me and with a smile I turned to look at Skyler.

“You're coming with you know.” I said to the young teen, which brought her out of her game trance. She blinked at me before I repeated what I said.

“Wait… do I have to wear a dress?” Skyler asked, earning a shrug from me. “Awww, do I have to?!” She whined with exaggerated tone. I rolled my eyes before sitting down my chair, which prompted Irena to sit on my lap with her book in hand, she must've wanted me to read with her. With nothing to do, I decided why not and read with Irena. It was a surprise to me how long I read, I never considered myself to be an avid reader and even at the occasions that I do read, it wouldn't last more than a few minutes. I sat there with Irena for what was most likely an hour or so.

It wasn’t until I notice that the sun was going down that I stopped reading and saw Irena sleeping on my lap. I smiled softly and closed the book quietly before setting aside. Skyler was gone, no doubt to hang out with her friends. I've even heard she and her friends have formed some sort of club, as long as they don't get into trouble then it's fine by me because the last thing I want is someone beating down my door. I tried to get up take Iilah to bed but found it difficult and soon stopped when Irena let a small whimper, a nightmare maybe? I let out a sigh as I leaned back on the couch as Irena slept. She let out a few whimpers as she clinged to me, it seemed to help as she slowly calmed down a bit as she slept. It wasn't uncommon for Irena to have nightmares and they usually don't get so bad but their have times that she was at point of crying in her sleep and when she woke up one time when that happened, she clung onto me for dear life.

I brushed her hair a bit as she slept, smiling as I did as I looked up to the clock and yawned a bit. I didn’t realize that I was getting tired and seeing that I was getting tired, I gently stood up with Irena in my arms before heading over to her room and laying her down on her bed. After making sure that she was sound asleep with nothing but quiet snores, I headed to my room but on the way I spotted Skyler sneaking up to her room, tip toeing to not make a sound but she soon stopped when I cleared my throat. She turned around and let out a nervous chuckle.

“Hi Isaac… didn’t realize your still awake…” Skyler said with a few beads of sweat running down her face. I crossed my arms with a serious frown.

“Tomorrow morning… you're in big trouble.” I said with a tired tone of voice. She chuckled nervously before groaning in defeat and walking into her room, knowing that she is indeed in very big trouble. I went into my own room and quickly flopped onto the bed. Sleep took me over as I closed my eyes and went to dream land.

I stood at the train station with Irena and Skyler in hand. Skyler was sulking a little as part of her punishment was a whole two weeks without video games. I looked back from them too see Lydia and the rest there as well, Sophia was talking to Ange about clothing and how excited she was about the wedding. It seems that each of them had a job they had to do for said wedding, so everyone was happy. All except Lydia, she was standing a little bit away from her friends with a frown on her face and arms crossed. It seems that she wasn’t happy that her brother was getting married and he didn’t tell her about it.

I shook my head at this before looking over at Camilla and Blake, one was reading a book and the other playing a video game on her handheld game system. I was deep in thought, a habit I've formed as the result of long waiting and I've been known to zone out every now and again even before the habit of thinking too much.

It wasn’t long before we all heard the sound of the train coming close. I watched it pull in and stopped in front of us, letting the passengers off before we grabbed our stuff and boarded the train. Everyone was quick to go into a room within to place their stuff. Me and Ange, along with Irena and Skyler all shared a room. The latter was quick to claim a bed and lay there with a frown, still upset over her punishment. Irena sat on the bed near her, staring over at the upset Skyborn as I looked over to them.

“What happened?” Ange asked me in a whisper.

“She was late in getting home, like way late. It was just about midnight when she came home.” I said to Ange, answering her question. She ‘ahh’ed at this before sitting down on the bed. I stood there for a few moments before saying that I’ll go for a walk through the train. As I did the sound of the click clacks of the train tracks started to get into my head as I went from one car to another, finding Blake sitting at what looked like a bar in the train car. I walked up to the bar and sat on the stool next to Blake.

“Hey.” I greeted her. She turned to look at me and said.

“Yo, what’s up?” She asked me. I shrugged and thought briefly of my answer before saying.

“Nothing much really though I'm still miffed that I didn't know about the ‘big’ wedding before getting my own invitation yesterday.” I said with a huff, as much as it shouldn't really bother me, the fact that my mother had visited the day before yesterday kinda bothers me with the fact that she withheld any information. Blake chuckled at this.

“Well at least you got it, so that’s good.” She pointed out. I frowned at this and looked at her, seeing Blake look… nervous. This got my attention since if Blake looks nervous when something’s wrong or something bad is going to happen. A lot of people told me that she’s just paranoid but I knew Blake.

“Something up?” I asked Blake with an arched brow.

“Nothing… I think… just a bad feeling about this wedding.” Blake answered as she rubbed her arm. I nodded at this, ever since we were young Blake had this sense about what will happen. If she says something bad is going to happen, nine out of ten times something bad will happen. It’s the same with Dianne, which she calls it her ‘Pink Sense’, everyone simply didn’t bother to ask since it was too much crazy to understand. Lydia tried to figure it out, it led her going to the hospital for almost breaking every bone in her body. I was silent for a little while before the bartender came up and asked us what we wanted, we both ordered some light drinks for kicks but we also didn't want to get shit faced. When the bartender handed our drinks, I looked over to Blake and said.

“You shouldn't worry much about… at least not yet anyway.” I said with a shrug as I took a sip of the drink. “Just relax for a bit and enjoy the time with your girl.” I said to Blake, bringing a blush to her cheeks upon saying this. She drank a little from her drink before saying.

“Yeah yeah… you do the same.” Blake said with a smile. I smiled back before we clang our glasses together before gulping the last of our drinks. Some time has passed and I felt my whole body tensed up a bit. I looked to the side and saw some sort of barrier came through and pass right through us. I saw Blake shook at this, shaking her head at this before the intercom turned on and said we were arriving in Canterlot. “Guah… that felt… ugh.” Blake said, shaking her head. I simply stared at her as the door opened and Camilla walked in.

“Hey, ready to get off?” She asked the two of us. I nodded before I headed back to the room in time to see Ange picking up her stuff and Skyler sitting up. Irena saw me and smiled, waving a happy hello before she got up herself. I picked up my bag and Irena’s while Skyler grabbed hers before we finally got off the train and upon doing so, we noticed the sky or rather the dome over the city of Canterlot.

“Okay… talk about excessive security.” I muttered under my breath while Lydia and the others got off the train. I looked and saw a large number of gold plated guards standing at the ready near the exits of the train station.

“This is a wedding? It feels like a lockdown.” Skyler said to us. Everyone else got off as Lydia, without saying anything, walked forward towards the exit. Some of the guards tensed up as they saw this before Lydia walked past them, making four of them break off of the others and followed her out.

As I stepped up I saw the guards looked at me and bowed. One of them stepped forwards and spoke. “Prince Isaac, it’s good to see you. We will escort you to the Palace.” He said in a sorta drone like way. I simply nodded, having given up on making others not refer to me as Prince Isaac long ago when it began to get tiresome. Irena tilted her head at this, she was unaware of my status as a Prince as I prefer the normality of my life I had so far. The guard turned and soon we had a group of guards flanked us before we headed out to some carriages. We all entered them, Me, Ange, Irena, Skyler, Blake, and Camilla entered one while the others entered the others. Soon we were heading to the palace without a word. I looked over at the others and saw Irena and Skyler were staring outside and Blake had her arms crossed. Once again I was in deep thought though this time it was due to Blake's earlier suspicion, the bad feeling she had I now felt though I couldn't tell why and this just led to me thinking deeply about this, though I was brought out of them by Ange.

“Hey, you okay?” Ange asked me, shaking my arm a bit.

“Yeah sorry… zoned out a bit I guess.” I said to her with a smile before giving her a peck on the cheek and saying. “Thanks though.” I said to her. She smiled back at me before leaning up against me. Camilla smiled back as she looked over at Blake… who somehow fell asleep. She frowned before flicking her in the head.

“Huh, what?” Blake asked, now awake and looking around. “What I missed?”

“Nothing… you fell asleep.” Camilla answered, crossing her arms. Blake chuckled nervously.

“Sorry.” She said before giving the fire magi a kiss on her cheek, earning a blush from Camilla. It wasn't long until the carriages came to a stop and the door was opened by a guard. One by one we stepped out of the carriage and we found ourselves at the main courtyard of the palace. Many other people from all around have been invited to this event by the looks of it. Irena looked up at the large palace in awe as Skyler looked around at the place.

“Okay, this is cool.” Skyler commented. I nodded as the guards said we were heading inside so we could get some rooms. Irena, Skyler and Ange were with me, having been informed that we'll be sharing a large room for the remainder of our stay. Ange thanked the guard who didn’t seem to respond. I frowned at this before getting to the door of our room.

When we entered the room they weren’t kidding about the size of the room, it was like we walked into a large apartment suite, with living room, kitchen, bathrooms, walk in closet, even a room for both Skyler and Irena. The two of them ran off to explore as Ange and I stood in the living room, hearing the door closed.

“Hmm, pretty big room.” I said as I walked around the living room, seeing the small kitchen and several bedrooms down a short hallway. The living room was adorned with the latest of today's furniture, it seemed that mom has taken some of my advice in changing the guest rooms. The couch looked very homey and very comfy but once I sat down, I couldn't help but let a sigh of relief as I felt myself relax on the very, very comfortable couch. “Oh this is good.” I said. Ange giggled at this as she too went around to explore the guest rooms. I simply sat on the couch happily as this all happened. I couldn't help but kick my feet up on the couch but I soon felt someone kick them off and saw Ange sitting down, her expression detailing her surprise over the comfiness of the couch.

“Ooo… this is… nice.” She said, leaning up against me. I put my arm over her and helped her snuggle up, enjoying the closeness of one another as we have many times before. I soon planted a kiss atop her head, gaining an appreciative hum from her.

“I think I might keep this couch.” I said jokingly to Ange. She giggled at this as she snuggled up to me. The two of us stayed there for a few minutes before Ange stood back up, after giving me a kiss on the lips, and went to explore the rooms. I was left to my own thoughts for a little while before I decided that I should see mom and see how she's doing. So getting up and stretching a little bit, I decided to first look for her in the throne room.

I walked down the hallways, seeing more and more guards around me, also I noticed that there were some guards outside of my room and one of them was following behind me. It wasn’t a real issue with me but… this was a little excessive on security. I glanced back at the guard, seeing that the guard was female, a little shorter than me with some wisps of red hair peeking out of her helmet and her eyes were an ember colour.

“Hey umm… I don't think you really need to follow me around.” I said albeit a little awkwardly.

“Sorry but I have my orders.” She said without missing a beat. “I have to make sure nothing bad will happen and that’s it.” The way she said it makes me thing she takes her job seriously. Maybe too seriously.

“Okay then…” I said, giving up on convincing the guard to leave me be. It didn't help as it felt awkward to have a guard practically escort me. It wasn’t long before I noticed that we weren't going to the throne room but somewhere else. “Wait, I thought we were-” I was quickly interrupted by the guard when she said.

“Princess Celestia is in her room at the time, normally she wouldn’t take any visitors but since you’re her son… I believe she would want to see you.” The guard said without looking over at me. I hummed at this but said nothing as we stopped by set of doors adorned with gold and the symbol of the sun. The guard walked up to the door and knocked on it. “Your highness, you have an important visitor.” She said before standing back. We waited for a few moments before the doors open and my mom walked out and… wow.

Her hair was a dull pink colour that I have never seen her in before and here eyes were bloodshot and heavy bags were under them. Her clothes, used to be a flowing white gown that flowed off her was replaced with a large t-shirt and some sweatpants. She rubbed one of her eyes and saw the two of us. “Oh… hello Isaac… nice to see you since… uhh…” She paused as she tried to remember something. She looked tired… really tired.

“Maybe this is a bad time…” I said, now regretting my decision in looking for my mother. She was really worse for wear and I swear that the bed is what she needs right now. She simply wave of her hand and smiled.

“No no, it’s fine… come in I have some tea… I think?” Mom said before stepping back inside her room. I glanced at the guard who was surprised to see her like this. Her eyes widened at the sight. I stepped into the room while she thanked the guard and closed the door. Upon seeing the room and the state of disarray, I could tell something was majorly wrong.

“So uh… what's got you so… Well that?” I asked her, having no words to describe her state. She chuckled as she made two cups hover over to the table that had a number of papers on it.

“Oh, you know, taking care of the citizens… dealing with nobles… and now planning a wedding… there’s a lot on my plate.” She said, pouring some tea in both cups. She handed me a cup, careful not to spill any of the tea as she did.

“Yeah, that's got to be a hell of a lot of stress.” I said with a dry chuckle, it wasn't meant to be a joke as she has to deal with many stress inducing things on a day to day basis. “Have you tried… taking some time off?” I asked her. She chuckled at this.

“Why do you think I got Lydia and her friends to come?” She answered as she sips her tea a bit. I arched a brow at this questioningly, having never been told exactly why other than they have been offered jobs to help out with the wedding. She looked up at me before adding. “As they help out, I can take a nice long nap before the wedding tomorrow… or was it the day after?” She asked herself before looking through the pieces of paper. I shrugged as I took a sip of my drink. “So… how are you Isaac?” Mom asked me.

“Alright, I've been getting back into my hobby after putting aside for so long and Irena had requested I make her a robot cat.” I said with a shrug at the mention of the robotic cat. “Camilla is going to help me out with that while I work on the body’s design.” I said. Mom nodded at this.

“That’s… good… it’s nice to have a hobby to do…” She said before letting out a yawn. “Oh, sorry… I didn’t mean to do that.”

“I can come by later if you want.” I said to her, seeing that she is need of some shut eye.

“No no… it’s fine… Umm, I should have you meet Cadence… technically the two of you are cousins and… and...uhh…” She stumbled a bit on her words as she started to nod off. I looked at her worriedly before she smiled. “Oh… I’m fine… I’m really…” She was cut off when her head hits the table, shaking the papers on it. I blinked a few times before hearing her snoring. I was speechless at this but not really surprised to see that she was out like a light and not wanting to let her sleep like this, I took her to her bed and laid her down, doing so I found out that she weigh quite a bit for a woman of her physique. Maybe she'll need to lay off the cakes for a while.

After pulling the covers up I quietly walked out of the room, seeing the same guard standing nearby. She turned to me as I closed the door. “Is everything alright?” She asked me as I turned to her.

“Yeah, she just fell asleep mid sentence.” I said in a half joking manner that got a barely restrained snort from the guard. She covered her mouth as she blushed at this.

“I’m sorry, that was rude of me.” She said in an apologetic tone. With a wave of my hand I said.

“It's alright, it never bad to have a laugh every now and again.” I said to her, dismissing her apology as it was not needed. She nodded and smiled at me.

“So, where do you want to go next Prince Isaac?” She asked me. Internally groaning, I gave it some thought and knowing that if I head back to my room Ange would've been gone by now so with a shrug I said.

“I think I'm just going to walk about the castle, never really explored much of it before.” I said with a shrug. The female guard nodded as she stood there, making me realize that she wasn’t going to leave me alone still. “Nothing I say will get you leave me, huh.” I said in a guessing manner to which she nodded with a bit of a smug look.

“Not getting rid of me that easily.” The guard stated with a smirk. I rolled my eyes at her with a chuckle, already taking a liking to this guard as she is seems a little more carefree than others. Soon the two of us headed out, exploring the castle of all it's grand… grander.

So far it simply looked alright, for a palace that is, other than the large number of guards around. I guessed a lot of people already pointed this out but this number of guards is a bit overkill.

“So what's with the increase of guards?” I asked the guard behind me, hoping that she knew the answer.

“Well, it's a nobles wedding so there's that,” the guard explained. “Also the fact that it's between the Royal Guard Captain and a Celestial, so there's that. Honestly I don't know where most of the guards came from, far out in the country maybe?” she added. I hummed at this, still a little iffy over the amount of guards patrolling the palace.

“Okay right… so since you're going to be my escort, despite me not wanting one, can I at least get your name?” I asked the female guard beside me. She was a little surprised that I asked this but nevertheless answered.

“Roz.” She answered. I blinked at this in surprise before speaking.

“Roz?” I asked her again, earning a shrug from her before she spoke with a nonchalant tone.

“My parent and I don't see eye to eye.” The guard explained, her tone suggesting that she has long since mellowed out on that topic. I simply let the topic go, not wanting to cross the line.

“So how long have you been in the guard business anyway?” I asked her with the intent to spark a conversation as it was awkward walking in the silence.

“Every since I was young.” Roz answered before looking a bit down as she added. “My siblings were more into magic and better than me.” I arched a brow at her, seeing her mood had gone down before nudging her a bit and saying.

“Hey, don't be so glum about it. Just because your siblings are adept in magic doesn't mean you have to as well.” I said, silently hoping those were the right words to say at a time like this. She smiled at me.

“Thanks… you know you're not bad for a prince.” Roz said with a chuckle. I rolled my eyes at this before saying.

“Well that's because I wasn't really raised a prince.” I said with a shrug in a half joking manner. It wasn't haha funny, just dark funny. She chuckled at this as we walked through the halls.

The place was getting decorated for the wedding and all the servants were busy. Again more guards patrolled the halls, now that they past my body shivered as if something wasn't right. I glanced over my shoulder but there was nothing out of the ordinary in sight and it garnered Roz’s attention.

“You okay there?” She asked me.

“Yeah… yeah I'm fine just… I don't know.” I said obviously confused and still shaken up. She arched a brow but kept silent while I calmed down. Finally we continued on and ended up on the gardens outside. The flowers are in full bloom for the event, don’t know how but the gardeners are amazing at this sort of thing. I looked at a bush with some roses in it as Roz kneeled down to a bush of purple flowers. She smiled at the sight of them. “You like these flowers?” I asked her with a bit of curiosity in my tone.

“Yes.” Roz said before standing back up. “Back home, it was really hard for flowers to grow.” I arched a brow at this but quickly saw her expression of sadness and stayed quiet. The two of us continued on for a bit before we found ourselves very high up in the castle. I looked off in the distance as the light of the sun shined down on the buildings, making them light up a little. Roz stood by me as she looked off as well. “Nice view, isn’t it.”

“Yeah, I can practically see all of Equestria from here.” I said with a chuckle as I looked off into the distance as well. We stood there for some time before I felt like someone else was here. I turned my head and saw a woman coming out way. She had long pink hair with has been made to look beautiful, a dark green dress and she held her head up high. Beside her was another woman who as a little bit shorter than her with blue hair and was dress in a blue dress as well, one that matches her hair. Roz saw them and bowed a little.

“Lady...Katherine… it’s an honor to see you up here.” Ros said after a small pause.

“Yes, nice to see you too and…” Lady Katherine looked over at me for a moment. “You’re… Prince Isaac, correct?” She asked me. I groaned at this, once again not liking others calling me prince.

“Yeah, I am.” I said, though now a little annoyed. Great, and I was in a good mood too. Katherine, who I’m guessing her full name is Miamoré Cadence Katherine, looked up and down at me and hummed a bit.

“To tell you the truth… I was surprised that Celestia had a son.” she said in a disinterested manner. I frowned a little when she said that before she added as she looked over at Roz. “Have to say, for a Prince I expected to see more guards than just one.”

I looked between the two and felt there was tension between the two.

“I'd rather not have a full guard detail following me around wherever I go. I think I'd prefer just one.” I told her, it was half true. I honestly would've preferred no guards to follow me around but Roz so far has been good company. Katherine arched a brow at me before speaking.

“If you don’t mind, I have a few words with your guard…” She looked over to the other woman and said. “Nuc, mind showing the Prince back to his quarters?”

“Of course.” She answered, looking over at me with a creepy smile. I arched a brow at this before Roz went with Katherine while I began heading back to my room, the blue haired lady following behind me.

“So… haven’t seen you around before. Just got here?” Nuc asked me with a smile. I looked over at her and saw that she was a little too close for comfort.

“Yeah, about an hour ago.” I said, now feeling uncomfortable with her closeness. She giggles at me.

“Well, I bet you have all the girls fawning over you, quite a looker you are.” She said, giving my arm a poke, which made me frown at her and step away.

“Yeah… but I'm already taken and I made that very clear one of the millions of interviews I gave.” I said to her, frowning still as she only closed in again.

“Well, that’s nice…” She said, stepping closer to me and trailing a finger on my arm. This was getting very uncomfortable and for most of the trip we were walking back and forth in the hall, me trying to get away from her. When I saw my room I went towards it and looked back at her.

“Thanks for the walk back, have a good-” I was cut off when she pushed me onto the wall.

“Now, now, we were just starting, playing hard to get, it’s cute.” Nuc said as she gave me bedroom eyes.

“What the fuck? Lady I don't know what you're thinking or what you're on for that matter but I ain't interested, I'm already taken!” I exclaimed, trying to push her off of me only to find it difficult.

“Oh please, I know when someone is looking at me with interest.” She said as her hand felt me up. Bad touch! I was going to yell before she pressed her lips onto my own. My body locked up at this before slowly relaxing. It was… weird, odd and oh so very wrong. She slowly let go of me me as she kissed me before pulling away and humming loudly. “Thanks for that.” She said before turning away and walking off. I fell onto the ground, shocked and watched her go. I didn’t know what the hell just happened but I wiped my mouth and watched her disappear. Things can’t get worse.

“I-Isaac?” Nope, it could. I froze as I turned my head and saw a shocked Ange staring at me with wide eyes.

“That really wasn't what you think it was Ange…” I told her, out of breath and wiping my lips still. “She forced herself on me, I swear.” I said to her truthfully. She stared at me some more before seeing tears in her eyes.

“I… I thought…” With that she turned and ran off. Shit! I tried to chase her but my legs seemed to be not working… and I was oddly tired for some reason. So now I was laying right outside my door as in less than five minutes my love life crashed around me. If I had the ability, I would run after her and explain to her the truth but my body had other plans. I began losing feeling all across my body before everything finally went dark.

I opened my eyes to see a fire cat looking down at me. I blinked a few times before hearing a voice in my head. “Ah, you woke up finally.” Wisp said to me.

“I wish I hadn't.” I said to her, the memory of a heartbroken Ange still fresh on the mind as I regained feeling across my body. I was still lightheaded but other than that I was alright for the most part. I pushed myself up and looked at Wisp, asking why I was here without saying it.

“The other two came and found you, asked some guards to help you into your bed. It’s the next day and the wedding is going on.” Wisp explained as I pushed myself out of bed and to the window. I saw the sun high in the sky and it looked really nice out… I was miserable. “Isaac, what happened yesterday?” Wisp asked me.

“Some skank literally forced herself onto me and Ange saw, thought it was something else. Before I could actually tell her, I lost all feeling to my body.” I said to Wisp, rubbing my arms and sighing as I felt my hand rubbing against my skin.

“Lost all feeling to your body?” Wisp asked as I opened the window, letting a cool breeze enter the room. I stared out of it for some time before seeing a raven flew down near me. I stared at it before chuckling half-heartedly.

“I don’t know what to do anymore… what you think?” I asked the Raven as I closed my eyes.

“Well… how about Caw Caw Motherfucker?” A voice, a male one, said to me. I spun around, flame in hand and looked around the room for the owner of the voice.

“For fucks sake, whoever just said is getting roasted when I find them. I've had enough shit today.” I said out loud in anger, my breaking point just about reached beyond its limit and I was ready to snap at anything. I looked around and saw that there was no one around, my anger turned into confusion as there was no one here. I looked around before the voice spoke again.

“Down here.” The voice said below me. I looked down and saw… the Raven. What the… “Mind putting that out? You could burned this room down.” He said to me.

“Like I give a shit.” I said, deciding that I just didn't care enough to ask about the talking Raven.

“Well you should. This place looks nice and all.” The Raven flew up onto the chair as Wisp was on the bed.

“Ozul.” Wisp said to the Raven, making it known that she knows who this bird is.

“Ah, Wisp, it been a while hasn’t it… last I remembered was when we were at that dreadful Orphanage.” The Raven, Ozul I guess, said to her. I blinked at this in surprise, the flames dying in my hand as he said the Orphanage.

“It’s been a while, but why are you here?” Wisp asked the bird.

“Well it’s about the wedding, and the possible attack that’s going to happen.” This made me stop in my tracks. Attack?

“Wait wait what? What attack? What's this about an attack and why am I hearing about this now?” I said, marching back up to Wisp and the raven. Looking at Wisp even she was surprise.

“Yeah, the attack on the city.” Ozul said before looking at us. “Don’t tell me you didn’t notice all the weird stuff going on? Some guards acting odd, drone like, and see people for some odd reason look tired?” He asked us.

“Funny, Isaac has done the last thing, haven’t you?” Wisp asked me as she looked at me.

“Fuck off.” I said, not in the mood for a fucking joke.

“Well, then you must’ve ran into one of them than.” Ozul said to me before hopping off the chair and flew over and landed on my shoulder, making me twitch to smack him off. “Come now, we better hurry. The attack will happen-” Before he could finished there was a loud shattering sound, like the sound of glass breaking, as the dome surrounding the city broke and dissipated.

“Right about now, well then come on, to the main hall!”

End of Chapter XXII

Author's Note

Twilight Sparkle: Lydia Aurora
Spike: Drake Aurora
Pinkie Pie: Dianne Pye
Rarity: Sophia Belmont
Sweetie Belle: Lucille Belmont
Fluttershy: Angelina Calliope
Rainbow Dash: Rachael Dawn Wind (Wind is a real surname, it's Finnish)
Applejack: Jacqueline Smith
Scootaloo: Skyler Hawk
Cadence: Miamoré Cadence Katherine
Shining Armor: (Captain) Marcus Aurora
Sunset Shimmer: Lady Camilla Nicolette Whitlock