Alterantion of Fate
Chapter 3
Previous ChapterAfter the two thieves changed their formal attire to something more stealthy, they noticed the huge lack of guards roaming the halls, until they reached a T-shaped fork going left and right. Temporal stops Gale to look around the corner of each path to see no creature around any corner.
"Gale does something seem off or is this the easiest job we have gotten ourselves into?" asked Temporal.
To which Gale replies, "Well we can't go back otherwise we will be stuck with him for even longer."
"Point taken," Temporal answers in a hushed tone.
As the two go through the hallway full of doors Gale pulls a marble with an arrow in it from her pocket, the two examine each other as the arrow points away from some of the doors, until it pointed at one of the doors. Temporal slowly puts the lockpick in the lock of the door as Gal looks to see if any of the guards show up. After he unlocked the door, he signaled Gale over to him and slowly opens the door to see piles of coins, gem, and gold items on the floor.
"Wow, who knew how messy Estrago is with his treasure," Temporal whispered.
"Who cares grab as much as you can before any creature notices we're here," Gale loudly whispers as she stuffs one of her pouches with bits.
Temporal chuckles to himself while stuffing his bag with bits, and he pulls a sword with golden hilt still in its gem-encrusted scabbard, "Well I wonder how much this worth, but alas it is too big to sneak out with."
Before he could place it on the ground something burst out of the pile of coins, it was one of the guard ponies.
"Halt criminal scum!" he shouted and more guards burst out from the pile of coins, as well as the door to the treasury.
A black unicorn with a light blue cape trots into the room with the guards letting him through, "Well well well I see this trap of mine worked out quite well."
"Prince Sudario, this plan of yours was brilliant," said one of the guards.
"Sudario, as in the sinister strategist," Temporal thought to himself.
"Oh please, all I did was place some of the security in the treasure and let these mongrels into this very room," Sudario boasted.
Gale charges at him with all her might, but Sudario knocks her back with a beam of magic from his horn.
"How barbaric-," he mocked while dusting himself off, and Temporal tries to blast him with the same spell Sudario used on Gale, but it stopped by a coin Sudario lifted from the ground, "- not bad you can hit a coin, but not me."
Temporal tries to do it again, but Sudario motions the guards to surround the two, as the guards get closer to the two, spears drawn closing in on the twins, as they back up to the wall.
"Well, this is the end of us," Temporal thought to himself.
"Do you wish for your story to continue?" A voice echoed through Temporal's ears as everything room freezes in place.
Temporal wonders where that voice came from, "Huh, how come everything stopped?"
"Time is running short do you wish to continue?"
"If it means me and sister live then yes," Temporal answered.
"From this day forth you two shall be bestowed with a different power of guardians"
After doing so time has returned to normal and the guards draw closer to them.
"Brother!" Gale shouts as she jumps into the and her wings burst into flames, with a trail of fire following her.
The guards stepped back from her and the flames she emitted from her wings.
"Your highness what is that?" one of the guards asked in a panicked tone.
Sudario snarls, "Doesn't matter get them!"
Temporal stares at what his sister has done, "How did you do that?!?"
"I don't know I thought only to protect you and fwosh firey wings!" she shouted.
Gale quickly lifts her wings and a few feathers flung from her and explode surprising everyone, herself included.
So he begins by closing his eyes and strains himself, as he stops he opens his eyes to see a ball of magic floating on his horn, as he tries to shoot the bubble off his horn, however by doing so it created a huge beam heading towards Sudario, but he barely avoids it as the beam fills most of the doorway making holes through the walls.
After firing that beam, Temporal nearly collapses to the ground; panting with one hoof on his head.
"Brother are you okay?" asked Gale flying to him, without noticing her wings were no longer on fire, but now her peach-colored wings were visible.
Temporal replies, "Only a loss of balance, I wish it wasn't the end for us."
The guards grab their spears and charge towards the twins cautiously.
"So not only we captured a greedy lord and a couple of thieves, but two guardians as well,-" Sudario gloated, "-we'll make sure the alicorn princess is found and you are executed painlessly as possible."
After saying that, A ball of light dashes straight to the room they were in, and as it stops the ball changed shape to that of an alicorn and flashes them with a blinding light. The alicorn grabs the twins and runs off with them.
Sudario uncovers his eyes to see that the thieves were gone, "Guards find them they couldn't have gotten too far from us!"
Meanwhile, in a different part of the castle, the twins and the alicorn are hiding in the pantry with two tables blocking the door.
After propping a second table Temporal asks, "First question who are you? Second, how did you do that whole glowy everything?"
Gale looks to the pale yellow alicorn with a white mane and a brown cape and gasps, "Te... I mean Brother do you know who this is? She's Bright Feather."
"You are correct young mare, I see you know of my work" Bright Feather replied.
"Yeah, you are one of the greatest heroes of the resistance, you stopped King Longhorn and his gang a day before Prince Eclipse showed up; only leaving one of her feathers behind as a calling card," said Gale.
"Yeah, less fangirling more escaping we only have one window not one of us can fit through a blocked door and jars of preserved food," Temporal remarked and eats a pickle from the jar he lifted.
"Unicorn blast a hole through that wall!" Bright Feather loudly whispered with her hoof pointed straight at a wall.
After hearing that Temporal whispers back, "I don't think my magic can break that wall down with my magic, plus last I check I am not aware of how high we are from ground level."
"Either you trust me or not I know unlike yourself I don't fear death," Bright Feather snaps.
Temporal say nervously, "Well it's do or die."
He tries to prep himself similarly to how he was before until he heard something slamming into the door startling him to the point where he blasts a hole in the wall leading outside of the castle however it was three floors above the ground. Bright Feather then shoves the two out and proceeds to jump out as well. Gale grabs hold of her brother and flies away from the castle and sees a glider unfolds from the back of Bright Feather.
Meanwhile back in the castle, Sudario busts into the pantry along with some guards and proceed to search the room.
"Your highness, we can't find anything and they took a pickle jar," announced one of the guards.
Sudario finds a peach feather on the ground, and he begins to smile sinisterly, "No worries I found everything I need," The feather then changes back to its orange color.
