Author's Note

What happens when your Internet connection doesn't work like it should and you are a fic writer XD.

Internet was very slow for couple days and it inspired me to finish next chapter early.

Tyrant's Diary

Crystal Castle - Throne Room

Twilight and her friends appeared in a bright flash in the Crystal Throne room. Guards rushed towards them swords drawn. "Assasins guards protect the Princess and Prince!" one of them yelled.
"Stand down guards they are our guests no need to worry about them" Cadance said while sitting next to many books and reading them with Shining. The guards gave a quick nod and sheathed their swords returning to their posts.

Twilight dashed forward towards Cadance. "Cadance it's so good to see you again." Twilight said while giving her a quick hug.
"I missed you to Twily. Now can you still keep up is my most important question. I might just see something wrong but it seems your flank is a little rounder than last time." Cadance says teasingly.
"Oh really then I must see the same problem on you Cadance. It's you who should be worried about keeping up." Twilight replies giggling.
"sunshine, sunshine ladybugs awake clap your hooves and do a shake" both of them sing while doing their special dance.
Shining placed a book down he was reading and walked towards them.
"It's good to see you again LSBFF." Shining said and grabbed Twilight into a big crushing hug.
"You too BBBFF." Twilight answered and returned the hug.

"As lovely as the sight is you had some problems with Sombra. So tell us what happened Cadance." Celestia said stepping forward.
"Auntie! It's good you are here. But part of it will be easier to show you. Auntie Luna could you come too." Cadance said and waved them to follow.
"Let us go sister. I want to see what is going on." Luna said spreading her wings in excitement. And left with Cadance and Celestia.
"Twilight you might want to see this. I and Cadance have been searching books for some answers, but nothing. It's some sort of rune ward locking away whatever is inside it." Shining said pointing towards the now heavily damaged Crystal Throne.
"Shining? What did you do? You know that Throne was old older than..." Twilight started to lecture his brother.
"Hold on Twily that's not my doing it's all Cadance. But enough about that this is why we needed your help." Shining answered to Twilight and guided her to the word that has been bothering him and Cadance.
Twilight studied the rune's excitement clearly visible on her face. "I have never seen anything like this before. Spike, Girls come here and each of you take a book, and search for anything that looks like these runes." Twilight ordered and placed the books onto the ground.

Each of them took one book from the pile and looked at the runes they were supposed to search. When it was Ember's turn she surprised everyone. "That's not right at all the wording is totally wrong and runes are drawn weirdly." Ember said while looking at them.
Shining was the first to recover from their small shock "Lord Ember? What do you mean?" Shining asked and walked next to Ember.
Ember pointed and the runes. "See these parts of them are written on Ancient Dragoon. It's like they tried to mix the wording on them with some other language." Ember told everyone.
Twilight quickly took a book of "Ancient Crystal Wardings" and walked next to Ember. "If what your telling is true then maybe they mixed the wordings with Crystal Empires' own rune language." Twilight said and opened the book.
"Perhaps you are right Princess Twilight. I can translate the part of Ancient Dragoon and if they really mixed it with their own rune wardings this might be easier than we thought." Ember said.
"Way to go Ember. You probably saved us lots of time." Spike said and walked next to Ember.
Ember's cheeks turned to a shade of red when hearing a compliment from Spike. "That's nothing Spike. Thank you." Ember said and started to help Twilight to translate the runes.
"It seems we are not needed here right now. I think we should go and gather some materials for my project. Care to join me Applejack?" Rarity asked.
"Sure thing sugar cube, but let's do this fast. We don't know what that evil pony sealed behind that warding. Be careful, we'll be back as fast as possible." Applejack said to her friends.
"Wait up Rarity. You two escort these mares around the town and get a carriage for them." Shining said to two guards at the door. Both of the guards saluted. "Of course Prince Armor." The guards left the room with Applejack and Rarity.

Crystal Castle - Holding Cells

Cadance was leading Celestia and Luna towards the cell where this Spike look-alike dragoness was until she crumbled into a pile of crystals. Arriving at the cell that was guarded by one pony as Shining ordered, three alicorns entered the cell.
"That pile over there was a dragoness until she crumbled. and she looked a lot like Spike, and she told us some disturbing information." Cadance said while pointing at the pile of crystals.
"A high level transformation magic?" Luna asked.
"Yes and no sister to transform an inanimate object into your look-alike takes lots of skill, but to make it talk and move requires something far different. I can still feel the magic remnants on the pile could I do a fast check?" Celestia asked, and Cadance just gave a nod.

Celestia started to do a check on the pile of crystals her horn glowing like the sun. After she finished the check Celestia let out a long sigh. "As I thought Sanguis Magicae." Celestia said and got up.
"Blood magic that's troublesome." Luna said while rubbing her chin and thinking.
"Blood magic? Is it some form of dark magic?" Cadance asked.
"No it isn't, but ponies began to see it as bad as dark magic after some unicorns misused it. Normally you must use your own blood to power the spells, but there were two unicorns brothers who discovered a way to use your opponent's blood on their spells, but it is harder that's all I say. In the end, I banned its teaching, but I'm sure the material you need to use learning it still exists." Celestia said.
"And if what you said that this dragon was here to tell you something makes me wonder why. Could this dragoness be Spike's sister" Luna asked.
"Wait... What? Spike has a sister? How? when?" Cadance asked.
"We will tell you all. You might want to take a seat this should take a while." Celestia said and sits down with Luna and pointed to Cadance to sit next to them.
"Guard, leave us and take the rest of the day off. Princess orders." Cadance said and the guard just saluted her and left. Celestia and Luna started to explain to Cadance what happened in Canterlot with Spike.

Crystal Castle - Throne Room

Back in the throne room Twilight and Ember were deciphering the rune ward together.
Ember pointed to one of the runes. "And look here this speaks of blood." Ember said
"And this one here translates to family." Twilight said writing down the translation they were making.
Spike was sitting behind watching Ember and Twilight writing down and arguing a little now and then about certain runes meaning. What really caught his attention was their two plumb rears. Already his wild imagination was running fast in his head imagining how it would sound when spanking those two naughty girls. So deep in his imagination, he failed to notice Shining sitting next to him.

Shining noticed the way Spike was looking at Ember and his sister so he decided to do a little questioning. Sitting next to him he lightly slapped his head. "So might I ask you why are you looking at my sister and Ember like some pervert? I hope you have a good answer." Shining said looking angrily towards Spike.
Feeling Shining's hand hit the back of his head and hearing him questioning woke him up pretty fast. "I... eerrr... I'm sorry Shining I won't do it again." Spike said panic rising in his mind.
Shining just slapped his back and smiled. "Oh relax Spike. You're a grown dragon. It's only normal to show interest towards the fairer sex." Shining spoke to Spike.
Spike was dumbfounded at his reaction. Is this the same overprotective Shining he knew? "I... Thanks, I guess." Spike answered and rubbed his neck
Shining kept smiling. "I won't look it badly if you want to pursue a relationship with Twilight, but..." Shining's face turned more serious. "If you do so you better treat her like a goddess or I'm going to teach you a lesson you won't forget you understand?" Shining finished looking like he was ready to gut Spike.
Spike swallowed hard. "Crystal clear Shining." Fearing some divine retribution from an overprotective brother. He just nodded to him

Shining face turned a little somber. "That's good Spike, but really if you two try to pursue a relationship treat her good. She was pretty down for a long time when Flash turned her down. I get why he did it already getting married and he wasn't interested in going through the heard marriage. You know she came to ask some advice from me of all ponies how to approach Flash. Like a good brother, I did my best to give advice to her. I just didn't know Flash was already engaged with someone until Cadance told me at the same day Twilight poured her heart out for Flash." Shining explained.

This was a side of Shining Spike hasn't seen. He looked so sad. Spike could still remember when Twilight did almost 100 test runs on her "how to talk with Flash" simulation she looked so happy when leaving for the Empire. When Twilight came home from Crystal Empire she looked like she had died. All the usual happiness drained from her. "I remember when she came back home after that day. She shut herself into the library for days." Spike said and was feeling sad himself when remembering how sad and dead Twilight looked.

"Yeah, Me, Flurry, and Cadance visited her and tried to pull her out of her depression. But do you know what hurt me most?" Shining asked.
"I can't really tell Shining." Spike answered and listened to Shining's story.
"She blamed herself. She told how ugly and unliked she was and all those were lies she made in her depressed mind. Nothing of the situation was her fault. It took some time and she had some private talk with Cadance and finally, we managed to get through her and pull her out of that dark pit." Shining finished.
"You know I love Twilight and I wouldn't do anything to hurt her. If we do pursue something You know I'll treat her right." Spike said feeling a little bad not telling him about his and Twilight's little adventure.
"That's all I ask Spike." Shining said

Shining and Spike's talk was interrupted when a loud voice of Twilight was heard pronouncing her victory over another academic problem.
"Hahaa take that Sombra! You know Ember this was fun. We should do this again at some point." Twilight said.
Ember just nodded "I agree it was interesting to work together." She said sounding a little bored.
During Twilight's victory cheer Celestia, Luna, and Cadance returned.
"What has you in so good mode Twilight. Did you manage to translate it?" Cadance asked hopefully.
Twilight turned around with a big smile on her face. "I didn't do it alone I had little help." She said and pointed towards Ember.
"So my most faithful student what's is the meaning of it don't keep us in suspension." Celestia asked walked next to Twilight with Luna and Cadance.
"We do hope it isn't anything dark. Knowing Sombra it could be a trap." Luna said carefully observing the floor.

Twilight rotated her head a little. "No it isn't it has no traces of dark magic in it. I think Sombra isn't the one who made this." Twilight answered.
"So if it wasn't Sombra who was it?" Spike asked wondering about a pony who was brave enough to hide something into the dark king's throne room.
Twilight cleared out her throat. "So the Runes makes up a sentence "Hidden away is the truth. No darkness shall breach the lock. Only to the blood of family will I open." I don't really know for sure what this is. It sounds like some riddle. I already have been going through some riddles in my head, but haven't come up with anything solid yet." Twilight said to all ponies around her.

"Could I see the runes?" Celestia asked and Twilight just nodded. Walking towards the runes Celestia looked at them. The runes formed a perfect circle leaving the circles middle empty like something was missing or hidden. Celestia knocked a little at the middle, hearing it was hollow she used her magic and destroyed a lid revealing a small half-ball-shaped bowl.
"It isn't a riddle. It's a magically enchanted lock. And I'm pretty sure we need the caster's or his descent's blood to open it." Celestia said.
"That does put a wrench in our progress. We have no idea who was the one who warded this lock so it's like seeking a needle from a haystack." Luna said.
"Or, perhaps we do know don't we Shining dear?" Cadance said to her husband.
"Come on honey that dragoness was crazy there is no way what she said was true." Shining said to his wife little annoyed.
"Cadance? Is there something you want to share with us?" Luna asked.
Cadance just smiled. "That dragoness told us about Sombra's possible resurrection and asked us to save his soul, something about Sombra just being a puppet for that fellow you told me about, Exitium was that his name. Also, she told us about this lock in the ground and said it only opens to Sombra's family blood... Your family's blood Twilight. That dragoness told us that you're family is descended from Sombra." Cadance said while every pony in the room looked dumbfound.

"Which just show's how crazy that dragoness was. I think we would know if we were descended from that tyrant." Shining said and crossed his arms.
"Well, that's easy to check. If you don't want to try I will." Twilight said and bite one of her fingers breaking the flesh and letting her blood flow. Placing her hand above the bowl and let her blood drip down into it.
After a couple of the drips fall into the bowl it the runes and bowl started to glow brightly after a short moment something clicked loudly and two large slide lids opened where the runes and bowl were revealing their insides. The magic sealing this box had preserved the book that was inside. There was no dust or anything else in the box.
"A book? Why does a book have to be sealed like this." Ember asked.
Twilight lifted the book and placed it onto the nearby table. Every pony gathered around it. No one could hardly believe what book they had just found, but the text on its cover left little to guessing. ""Prince Sombra's Diary". I can't believe it. Is this really his diary before he killed Queen Amore." Twilight asked while studying the book closer it was really big for a diary.
"Wait it says, Prince Sombra. Was Sombra Amore's son? I thought he was some soldier who overthrew and killed his Queen." Cadance asked.

"We really can't answer to that Cadance. Queen Amore really didn't tell us much about her children. We knew she had children, but who they were was a mystery to us." Celestia said
"She never did take them to meet us in Canterlot or did we meet them when we visited Crystal Empire. His husband always said they are too young, then it was when they aren't ready. Queen Amore or King Darkwing didn't even tell us their names." Luna finished the explanation.
"Perhaps she feared the possibility of something happening to them?" Spike asked while scratching his head.
"That's an odd view, but yes it could be a possibility, but we were really good friends with Amore and never would have hurt her foals." Celestia answered.

"Am I the only one who wants to read this and learn all that happened to Sombra?" Twilight asked hardly keeping herself contained.
"I do want to know how someone in our family turned so bad." Shining said still trying to accept he and his family were truly related to the dark king.
"Perhaps we could learn something useful from Sombra's past." Luna said. All of the ponies and dragons took a seat around the table.
"Twilight would you want to do the honors?" Celestia asked.
"Oh, yes! Thank you, princess." Twilight said opening the old diary on its first page. Clearing her throat she began to read Sombra's words.
"Dear Diary....."