II
The monsters return

Midnight yawned after she finished the reading she stole from a store about a strange notebook that allowed the user to kill anypony whose name is written on it. The undead creature supported the protagonist’s idea that the only way to achieve world-wide peace was to exterminate all evil. But killing by a heart attack seemed boring. Where was the fun in that?

She preferred to use a knife or her own magic. Also looking at Night Terror eating them was kind of funny.

And speaking of Night Terror, she could use some dragon dick.

“Night Terror! Night Terror!” she called by entering the room where her dragon was lying.

The enormous dragon seemed asleep but she knew that was impossible for undead creatures.

“Night Terror!” she called seductively.

The dragon ignored her.

“Night Terror!” she shouted.

Night Terror finally opened his eyes, noticing Midnight moving her tail around his nose to call his attention. Night Terror finally smiled to her and sniffed Midnight’s mane making her moan in pleasure. The reptilian tongue invaded every inch on her body making Midnight shiver. She was lost in an ocean of pleasure.

But Night Terror was somehow distracted as he was pleasing Midnight, scared of what just happened. Why did I not react to her? I smelled her, I felt her presence but I didn’t react. Is because she is not… alive? He shivered. No, no. It can’t be.

“Night Terror, are you okay? You are not into it as much as you use to!” said Midnight.

“I am terribly sorry Midnight my dear, is just that…”

“Oh, I know! Would you prefer go straight to the act? I won’t mind skip foreplay for you.”

“Thank you, my beloved.”

Canterlot was a city of students. Most of the greatest universities of Equestria were located in Canterlot. With the obvious exceptions of Wonderbolt Academy, and the Manehattan Tech.

For many years Celestia’s Academy for the Gifted Unicorns was the best school in Equestria, but now another school held the title. A school founded six years ago, the Academy of Silence. There were no entrance exams and it wasn’t very expensive. And if a family was too poor to afford tuition in the Academy, they lowered their fees.

All because of their most sacred belief:

EDUCATION IS FOR EVERYPONY

The faculty members never gave up for any students, they never let them cry or do anything to hurt their learning process. And in the cases that the student was unable to learn for some reason, it was determined that the teacher was at fault and not the student. And the faculty members did everything on their power to make sure that all knowledge was shared

After all the school was founded by the Knights of Silence, and they were well-known for their fight for education and how far they were capable to go for their cause.

Barely six years ago the Knights of the Silence were wanted criminals who broke into Academies, libraries and other restricted sources of knowledge to steal everything and then give all this knowledge for free saying that nopony had the right to monopolize it.

The Crown tried to stop them but they were an exceptionally strong group who have gained the heart of everypony, and in the end the Crown had no choice to come to an agreement. They would modify the educational system to make it more inclusive and they would allow the Knights of the Silence to found their own Academy where they could continue teaching and promoting their ideology freely.

In exchange the Knights should stop stealing knowledge from others, and the former Leader of the Order should answer for the crimes of her Order.

But they only get to an agreement after the Knights joined forces with the Crown to defeat an enemy in common, monsters from the pits of hell.

Those who participated in the battle agreed to never speak about what happened ever again. They lost somepony important that day and agreed to honor her memory by following her teachings. Not mentioning the horrible way she died.

…

Spike flew over Canterlot at first hour, and landed in front of the Academy of Silence, making appear his black robe, his blue cape, and his smiling mask. The students looked at him and bowed. Spike was not a faculty member, but they recognized him as part of the High Council and the most powerful Knight after the Great Master.

Spike greeted a few students with a quick nod and knocked at the door of the Great Master’s office.

“Irish! Irish!” shouted Spike banging the door.

“I heard you the first time, calm down for Faust sake!” said the Great Master Irish Coffee opening the door. “What’s wrong with you anyway? You look like you’ve seen a ghost!”

“Not ghosts, they are more like zombies. Seven of them!”

Irish Coffee paled. “NO, NOT THEM!”

Spike nodded.

Shacking in fear, Irish let pass Spike to her office and he took a seat.

“Tell me everything.”

“What do you want me to tell you? I had this nightmare, but it felt different. I was watching everything from the perspective of… well, it doesn’t matter. What matters was that it was too real.”

Irish nodded. “It was a warning, right?”

“So do you believe me?” asked Spike.

“Of course I believe you! Spike, you are my best friend and you have a direct connection with one of those things. Also your powers are far superior than mine… only an idiot would not believe you.”

Spike sighed. “Tell that to Twilight! I tried to tell her I was serious, that I received a warning in the Dream Realm. But she dismissed saying I was having a bad dream!”

Irish frowned. “Okay in her case is not stupidity but fear. Midnight is a reminder what would have happened if Starlight Glimmer have defeated her.”

“And ironically if it wasn’t for Midnight they would have ended up like the Undead Knights.”

Irish Coffee nodded.

“The Undead Knights have made them realize they have a dark side that could emerge at any time in case they are defeated. Is not that she doesn’t believe you, she is too afraid to.”

Spike nodded. “Thank you Irish, you always know what to say.”

Irish gave him a smile. “In the meantime let’s inform their Majesties about the situation. I’ll go with you!”

“Thank you, Irish.”

The two of them went to the Castle, just in time for Day Court.

“Hey Emerald!” called Irish.

“Yes Great Master? How can I help you?” asked a green unicorn, reading in a table.

“I need you to please cover my class for today. Also reunite the High Council, we have an emergency in our hooves.”

Emerald bowed to the Great Master as she and Spike ran to the Castle. They had no time to lose.

A few guards bowed before the Great Master and Spike when they entered the Castle. Just like the regular ponies, lots of them owed a lot to the Order.

Back in the days when the Knights of Silence were wanted criminals, the Crown had lots of difficulties tracking them down since they had allies in all over Equestria. Even among the Royal Guard.

Not only the Guards but also servants and other ponies bowed before Spike and the Great Master showing them their respect.

They arrived to the line to Day Court. And as expected, there were at least a dozen of ponies before them.

“Great!” complained Irish.

“Yeah, but we’re lucky we arrived here on time. A few more minutes and the line would become twice as long.”

The two of them sighed and get to the line.

“Hey! Is that the Great Master?”

The ponies turned to the newcomers and immediately bowed before them.

“Great Master, Knight Spike! You can go before me! My issue is not that urgent!”

Irish smiled awkwardly. “Seriously?”

“Of course Great Master! I owe everything to you and the Order, please go before me!” smiled certain mare.

“No, I am further in line! Please take come here Great Master!” offered another pony.

“No, I am second in line! You can have my place Great Master.”

Spike and Irish thanked the gesture, and they went second in line and thanked the ponies profusely. Usually they would not abuse their position like this, but the situation was urgent.

After the next pony finished his audience with the Princess, they entered to the Throne Room.

“Thank you, Princesses! Thanks to your help my city would finally get out of this crisis!” said a pony exiting the room.

Celestia and Luna waved a hoof to the happy pony when Irish and Spike entered to the Throne Room looking very worried.

“Spike? Irish Coffee? What are you doing here?”

Spike bowed before them. “Hi Princesses, sorry for coming out of sudden but this is an urgent matter. I just had a dream. No, it wasn’t a dream it was a premonition. A warning. The Undead Knights have returned!”

The Princesses shivered at the memory of the creatures.

“You can’t be serious. Those things are sealed under the Sprout of Harmony!” said Celestia.

“Spike what if you share your dream with them?” suggested Irish Coffee.

The young drake nodded and used a window spell sharing with them the dream he had about the undeads massacring those dragons. The two Princesses were shacking in fear.

“It can’t be! Luna, the Dream Realm is your specialty! This is some sort of mistake, right? There’s no way the creatures have broken free? Right Luna?”

The Princess of the Night was pale.

“Tia, seriously shut the buck up. We all knew we were just buying time, and that dream was far too detailed to be a ‘just a dream’. Get Twilight Sparkle and the Bearers, we are going to take a look at that place. If they have freed we’ll notice right away. But if they don’t I’ll personally watch your dreams from now on. Is this okay Spike?”

The dragon bowed before the Princess. “Thank you, Princess Luna!”

Celestia didn’t seem very convinced. “Are you sure we are not overreacting? They are trapped in the roots of a Tree of Harmony! There’s no way creatures like them would be able to free for a prison as perfect like that!”

“Isn’t Harmony itself what allows them to think rationally?” asked Spike. “They may be undead monsters, but Harmony is part of them.”

In the end Celestia nodded. “Okay, we can take a look. But once we prove that they are still underground where they belong, we’ll go back to our lives. Agreed?”

“Agreed!”

…

Three pegasi-pulled chariots crossed the skies to that forbidden land, halfway between Canterlot and the Crystal Empire where a Sprout of the Tree of Harmony was growing in silence, sealing the most dangerous creatures in Equestria.

“I seriously don’t understand why are we doing this!” complained Rainbow Dash.

“Yes! Those things are really scary! Can’t we just forget they exist?” asked Fluttershy.

“Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are right! The Undead Knights are defeated! We don’t have to come back to this horrible place!” said Rarity as she remembered the last battle against the creatures.

Twilight shook her head as she looked at Spike with concern.

“I think you are overreacting over a bad dream Spike. I get it, I would worry too if I had a dream about those things but you cannot waste the Princesses’ time like this!”

Irish glared at Twilight. “You know that Spike wouldn’t do it on purpose! If he is wrong I’ll admit we are overreacting but there’s nothing wrong with taking a look.”

“But the Undead Knights are sealed for good! There’s no need to take a look because there is no way they can escape from the Sprout of Harmony!” insisted Fluttershy

Irish sighed. “I know we are all scared, but please keep your mind open. Denying the existence of this monsters won’t help us.”

Finally they landed in front of the Sprout of Harmony. The Tree was growing in silence, keeping the undead monsters under irs roots.

“See? The Tree is still here! Now let’s go!” said Celestia.

Irish Coffee glared at her as she jumped from the chariot and began to explore the place. The others did the same, just to make sure.

Applejack was the first to notice a bunch of dirt, along with a hole with broken roots. The cowgirl trembled in fear.

“No… no, it can’t be. IT CAN’T BE!”

The others ran to see what the problem was, and paled. They could see not one but seven holes. It looked like something emerged from the ground, breaking some roots in the process.

They went silent and gulped as they examined the holes.

“Let’s not jump into conclusions yet!” said Celestia. “It could be just an animal!”

“There’s no animals here. Even if the undead are sealed they can feel their aura of death! No animal in their right mind would approach here!” said Flutershy.

“Seven holes, seven monsters!” said Rainbow Dash examining the terrain from the air.

They shivered but Twilight and Celestia refused to believe it. If the Tree of Harmony could not keep them asleep what could?

“But, this doesn’t prove anything, right?” asked Celestia looking at the others.

They all glared at her.

The way back to Canterlot was full of tension. It was obvious that the Undead Knights have returned. The question was when did they freed and what they could do to stop them?

“Your Highnesses! Glad you’re back!” said a Guard bowing before them.

“Master Sword, what’s the matter?” asked Celestia.

“Somepony send you a package. The servants took a look to make sure it was safe and then…”

He showed them. It was a dragon’s head perfectly embalmed with gems where the eyes were. Spike recognized the dragon. It was Lord Igneous from his dream

Celestia gulped. “No… please this haves to be a sick joke!”

“Enough! You cannot deny this for much longer! Those things are free and they started to kill again.”

“And worse, they know we know.” said Luna.

“What should we do now?” asked Twilight.

“This can’t be! The Tree of Harmony only got us six years of peace!”

“We have to think in something. There haves to be a way to get rid of those creatures once and for all!”

Spike looked at Irish, who nodded and the two of them began to leave.

“Spike! Where are you going? We need you!” called Twilight.

“Sorry Twi, but this situation require a meeting with the High Council. Remember that the Knights of Silence are the primary target of the Undead Knights.”

“And we cannot afford to lose any more lives. We would not allow that the history repeats itself, we will make sure all our students are safe!”

“So if you excuse us, we’ll have to watch over our own people!” finished Spike as he and Irish Coffee left the room

Author's Note

And here it is, now everypony is aware that the Undead Knights are back and ready to continue their killing spree. Everypony have chosen sides, now it is time for their final battle.

I hope you liked it and,

Read ya’ later!!