Chapter 2 - Discovery

The silence of the the situation would suddenly be broken by the loud splash of water and the darkness of Luna's world would break as she opened her eyes,automatically beginning to panic as she realized very quickly that she was underwater,flailing her hooves as she would swim up and break the surface of the water,gasping for breath as she looked around frantically,only able to see the slightest bit as all that illuminated the cave that she had fallen into was a very dim teal blue light,the origin of said light was unknown to her as she scanned the cave.

Meer moments later a yell would erupt from slight above Luna and she would look up in sudden shock,The yell was coming from a falling Starry Night who had simply jumped into the hole without a care.He impacted the water making a huge splash the drenched the nearby Luna.Her mane lay limp over her face as a now wet Starry emerged from the depths of the water,panting as the princess had moments earlier and observing his surroundings before setting his eyes on the princess,who blew away some hair from her face and returned a perplexed look back to him before the voice of feather would break the newly set in silence.

"Hey! Are you two okay down their!?"

Luna looked up toward the source of feathers voice then back to Starry before answering.

"Yes,were fine! come down here,i haven't even seen this place before! It looks like a cave of some sort!"

At hearing the princess's words Feather flew down the cave fast with ease,looking around as if checking for danger before looking down at the princess and Starry.

After helping the two of them out of the water Feather dropped to the ground just next to Starry and Luna.She drew her bow as she continued to scan around,applying the special hoofguard attachment that allowed her to pull an arrow out of the quiver on her back and apply it to the bow before pulling the serving back into a ready position,this device was hook like and was designed by Feather herself.

"I don't like this place Princess.....it looks ancient,this isn't a normal cave by any means...it looks almost hoofmade."

The princess was not paying attention,she herself felt a strange sense of attachment to this place,she couldn't figure out why as she had never once been here.The teal blue light of the cave made her feel strangely...at home..in this place.

She snapped out of her thinking to acknowledge Feathers words with a simple nod as she looked around the room,looking much more closely now that her panic had ended.She spotted something that looked out of place,it looked like...a door of some sort,it was definitely hoof made as it was made out of smooth,dark grey as apposed to the black rock of the circular cave around them.The door was covered in what looked like vines that had been given an eternity to grow over it.

Luna trotted over to the door almost sub-consciously remove some of the vines slowly and cautiously,revealing symbols all over the door,most of them were left the princess completely stumped on what they could mean,but two very big symbols in the middle of the door were unmistakable.A large crescent moon accompanied by a radiant sun adorned the grey stone door,by the looks of it,they were perfect in their carvings,not an imperfection to be found in them unlike the others,but the one thing that was clear was what was under them,just where the edges of both connected was a small hole.

Feather and Starry trotted up to either side of the princess and observe the door before resting their eyes on the hole in which Luna's own eyes were locked.

"It looks made for....a horn to fit inside....." Luna said in an oddly blank tone

Feather and Starry looked at each other and then back to Luna,who,by the time they had turned back,was about to attempt to stick her own horn inside the slot in the door.Feather jumped out suddenly and grab the princess,pulling her away just before her horn entered the hole

"Luna,what are you doing!? That could be a trap for all you know,we don't know anything about this place,i mean no disrespect your highness but that was very absent minded of you.." Said Feather.

The princess stood their for a moment,not so much as glancing toward feather as she spoke in a very low,matter of fact tone

"It isn't a trap,Feather...." Said Luna.

Without so much as another word,Luna inserted her horn into the hole in the grey down and focused her magic.She was not even close to sure what would await her on the other side or if their was anything to be had at all,but something about the cave pushed her forward,it made her sure what she was doing was needed.

The cave would shake and rocks would fall into the small body of water behind them,making audible echoing splashes as they contacted the surface.Feather would draw her bow back further and Starry would flare his horn,making it glow a light purple color.After a few moments of shaking Luna would withdraw her horn from the hole and the grey stone door would open,making a slight scraping sound as it opened to the princess,Revealing to her a marvelously large room that poured at a brighter teal light from the door,illuminating the entire dome like chamber to her.

Luna walked into the room without so much as a whisper,as if being guided by some mysterious force that she did not try to fight.As she walked into the room,something in the middle of the room become more and more visible to the princess and her two guards,who now followed behind,looking around with well deserved caution.

In the middle of the room would be what looked like a large circular pedestal made out of a strange looking jet black marble,and on the right and left of the pedestal were two very different looking statues.The left statue was made of very bright white marble and would resemble what looked like a very large female alicorn,her body gracefully slender and curvy.Her mane was extremely long and curvy like Celestia's but much longer,seeming to go on for an eternity from the correct angle,and the same could be said for her tail.The alicorn would be in a standing position on her hind legs and her forelegs would be high in the air as if in a kicking motion.

On the exact opposite of the left statue would be a slightly larger statue made out of a dark purple marble that clearly depicted that of a male alicorn,the first Luna had ever seen.He was very masculine in size and built like that of a strong work,even more so then that really.His mane was long but noticeably shorter then the opposite statues and looked to flow in a similar way,yet his tail was easily just as long.He would be in the same pose as the female alicorn as their eyes seemed to meet from the look of it and they were perfectly opposite to each other.

Luna would step into the middle of the large circular pedestal and look at first the left statue and then the right,taking her time as she observed the pair.The princess would feel a warm trail go down her cheek and she would reach up to touch
her cheek.The princess felt a very strange sorrow wash over her but she could not understand why,she did not know the ponies depicted in the statues,or at the very least she did not remember them,not in the slightest bit.Yet tears still began to stream down her cheeks as she stood and looked at their faces.

Feather would notice this and go to trot up to the princess but be thrown back all of a sudden by the barrier dark blue barrier dome around the pedestal and Luna would turn to watch this,wondering what had caused the barrier to form.Feather would be sitting up to look at the source of her being thrown back as suddenly,from the horns of each of the statues,bright trails of colored magic would shoot out,one trail was colored bright gold and the other pitch black.Both trails would move in a quick flurry of movement and connect with Luna's horn and illuminate her body in a mix of the two colors and she would stumble slight forward and her vision would begin to fail her as she fell over,seemingly in slow motion in Luna's mind.

The last thing the Princess would hear was the panicked yell of Feather and then the sound of a body smashing against something solid,rewarded with a sickening thud...and then the conscious world around her would go dark again as her words from earlier never stopped playing in her head...

"Things...Break....Easily...With...Age..."