Whisper was walking next to Luster while Songbird was flying next to them as they entered the castle. Whisper looked around the crystal insides “This seems pretty clean for a castle that only has one resident?”

Luster smiled “This castle is magical and cleans itself, it saved my mentor Princess Twilight a lot of trouble when she lived here.” Songbird was looking around in awe as they moved through the long crystal hallways.

It was not long before they were near two spare guest rooms, Luster smiled “These are the guest rooms. If you need anything just contact me.” They looked in both rooms, they were both plain and had simple beds as well as two small vanities.

They were about to inspect further when they heard Luster’s scream echo from the halls. Whisper began flying instinctively as her body was surrounded by a dark red aura with Songbird flying behind. They fly out of the castle only to see ten cloaked beings, two had talons, two had hands, two had paws, two had scaled claws and two had hooves.

They were all holding daggers, the one at the back had a dagger pressed against Luster’s throat. They were glaring at the ponies around, almost daring one to make move. Whisper snarled “Let her go!”

The figure holding the knife to Luster’s neck snarled “You wouldn’t dare attack us like this!”

Everypony tensed as the two groups glared at each other before Whisper lifted an arm, as soon as it glowed red all of the cloaked figures were held still by a red aura. She growled in an almost demonic tone as she levitated them into the air “Twin engines of your destruction!”

She then closed her hand and all ten of them imploded, Whisper walked over to Luster and held out a hand “Are you alright?!”

Luster groaned “Yes, I was not expecting to be attacked here. Still I must thank you for your help.”

Songbird gushed “That was so awesome! You dealt with them so quickly, I wonder if I can do something like that.”

Whisper shook her head with a frown “Now is not the time Songbird, we were just attacked by a group of hostile ponies” she then blinked “that was a very weird thing to say.”

Luster grimaced “Now I really need to send that letter, you two might want close your eyes. The first teleport can be quite disorientating.” Whisper and Songbird barely had enough time to close their eyes as they dissapeared in a flash of light, they stumbled a bit before realising they were in a crystal room with a pink bed, several bookshelves, a small desk and a vanity on the side.

Luster was busy writing the letter as Songbird grabbed a book on magic and turned to Whisper “Come on, let’s see if we can use some of the spells in this book!”

Whisper opened the book and turned to a page that had a teleportation in fancy huge bold letters at the top of a page. Before she could say a word she felt a sharp stab of pain in her mind, memories flooding her mind of sitting there reading this book and sometimes a huge white pony with an aurora like mane helped explain the concepts.

Whisper opened her eyes only to see Songbird looking at her with concern “What happened?”

Whisper grimaced “Memories of that book, of a mentor teaching me magic. This body has memories of it’s past.” With a click of her fingers she dissapeared in a flash of dark red light. She was now back in the forest, she clicked her fingers again and she was back in the room.

Songbird grinned “There must be more in this book.”

Whisper shook her head with a frown “I’ve had enough flashbacks for one day.”

Before they could say word Luster sent off her letter and turned to Whisper “I must thank you, I could have easily been killed. I don’t even know who they are but they came for me due to my position as Princess Twilight’s student I believe.” Before they could say a word a letter popped out of the candle sitting on her desk, Luster picked it up and frowned “We needed to head to the entrance, my Mentor is going to arrive soon, apparently what happened here is very serious.”

Whisper grimaced “Well let’s hope she tell us who those ponies were, they are quite hostile” she then turned to Luster “I’m surprised you don’t consider us strange, neither of us are ponies?”

Luster laughed as she headed to the door “This is Ponyville, weird things happen all the time. Everypony is used to it by now.”

Songbird shuddered as she followed alongside Whisper “I hope they don’t come after me as well, I’m not much of a fighter. Such powerful beings would probably beat me to a pulp.”

Whisper grinned as she nudged her friend “That just means that I have to protect you from these powerful beings.” They arrived outside of the castle only to see a huge chariot being pulled by several muscular winged stallion in full armour. Whisper and Songbird were in awe of the figure, a pony with a mighty long horn and massive wings was wearing a long flowing purple dress covered in powerful runes. A crown of gold with a purple six pointed star at the top rested on the Princesses head.

Luster bowed “Princess Twilight, you’ve graced us with your presence.”

Twilight have her a warm smile “There is no need to bow to me Luster I have enough nobles who give me hollow praise while they insult me behind my back.”

Luster smiled “I’ll try Princess.”

Twilight then turned to the two humans with a raised eyebrow “You look like Sunset Shimmer and the Trixie Lulamoon from the human world. Still there is something different about you two.”

A creature made of mismatched body parts appeared in a flash of light with a scowl “Displaced, human brought from an alternate realm and gifted with incredible powers! The Void Dwellers and displacers that sent to another world are practically gods in their own right.”

Twilight grimaced “Discord, tone it down. I want to know more about them.”

Discord took a deep breath before looking at the two “This is not really your fault, but sometimes other beings related to the creatures they are displaced as can come through. The realm that they come from is so chaotic that it makes me look like the god of order, death and madness are rampant. The worst part is the Elements of Insanity, a version of you and your friends corrupted by the chaotic freakish monsters.”

Twilight frowned “That is quite concerning, I will keep an eye out for these entities but for now the more pressing concern is the assassination attempt on my student” she then turned to Whisper and Songbird with a warm smile “While you two seem strange you saved my student, so I will grant you two one request each.”

Songbird smiled “I would like to learn more about magic.”

Twilight nodded “That can be easily arranged but what about your friend?”

Whisper grinned “I want to have a duel with most powerful fighter in the kingdom.”

Twilight frowned before nodding “So you enjoy fighting, very well then I’ll send a carriage to bring you to Canterlot for the duel but don’t expect your opponent to be merciful.”

Discord chuckled “Well this will be a sight to see.” Whisper was grinning eagerly as Songbird and Luster exchanged worried looks.

Author's Note

Guess who she will be fighting.