Assassination of the Ponies

News spread quickly over all of the world of Equestria, ponies cried and panicked, hid and ran. The news was worse than anything anypony had ever gotten, the news so devastating, it quickly broke the Harmony of Equestria. The news broke hearts and bodies of ponies, flared up old rivalries that were once lost, the news that both princesses of Canterlot, Goddess Princesses, leaders and forgers of friendship and peace. Celestia, sun princess, and Luna, moon princess. Had been, assassinated, killed in cold blood, nopony knew who and why, only that the two princesses lay bloody and dead in their main hall.

Twilight Sparkle hid in her tree house home, it was pitch black, the doors and windows were locked and bared. Twilight was innocent, she may have been the last one to see Celestia and Luna alive, but she would never kill either of them. Twilight wondered what she had to do to convince everypony that she was innocent.

She was on her way out of Canterlot when some royal guards, armed had come up to her:

"Miss Twilight Sparkle?" A grey Pegasus asked.

"Yes officer?" She had replied. Spears fell and she found herself surrounded.

"Your under arrest." A second guard, unicorn said.

"What?Why?" Twilight panicked, Celestia wouldn't have arrested her for anything. What was going on?

"High treason." The first replied, grabbing Twilight.

"What? Treason? Celestia will hear about this!" Twilight swore.

"That's the thing traitor, both Celestia and Luna are dead, and since your the last to see them, no other records have been found of anypony else getting in. You must have killed them."

"What? The princesses are dead? How?"

"Stop faking traitor and come with us." Twilight panicked, her horn began to glow, then darkness.

She had awoken in her library, Spike was missing, but she wasn't worried about that, she had quickly found some ply wood and nailed the door frame and windows in with magic. Now Twilight was hiding in the darkness, apart from her friends. Wondering what to do, what to say to prove her innocence. Suddenly the door knocked.

"Twilight?" It was Spike. Twilight began to use her magic. "Twilight, there are some royal guards here for you. Please come out." Spike continued, then Twilight stopped her magic.

"Look, we must put this traitor on trail and punish her for her acts against Equestria, if you know where she is and are holding back, you will be hanged as well." A second voice said.

"Look, the only place other than here she could teleport to is here or the old ruins of the princesses in the Everfree forest." Spike replied, scared for his life.

Rainbow Dash nearly flow straight into the two royal guards, just missing their flanks by centimetres.

"Erm. Hi?" Rainbow said, confused as why two Pegasi guards were so far from Canterlot and in her way of flight.

"Rainbow Dash? Pegasus leader of the Ponyvillian weather team?" One asked.

"You forgot best flyer in Equestria." Rainbow blushed. Still wondering what Celestia would want from her.

"Your friend, Twilight Sparkle is now a known traitor, she murdered both our glorious leaders, Celestia and Luna, in cold blood. We wish to bring you in for questioning." The first Pegasi said. Rainbow Dash nearly lost her flight control. Twilight, a traitor? But she wouldn't.

"Twilight would never even think of harming either princesses." Rainbow pleaded. The two guards looked to each other, then flow away slightly.

"That is exactly what the other four said, and the dragon. We don't actually have much evidence against Twilight. Maybe they're right." The second, blue one said.

"Or they are all working for the traitor."

"Damn it Whiplash, Twilight and her friends have saved Equestria four times now, the Nightmare moon incident, Discord, the Changlings, and the fourth time."

"Fine, I'll drop the charges and tell Shining Armor what happened. But we must get embassies of each known race, find the real culprit and sort this whole thing out." Whiplash replied, then flow back to Rainbow.

"Sorry miss, we have made a grave mistake. You may go." Rainbow began to fly away. "Oh, and miss Dash, if you find Twilight tell her she isn't guilty and that you must all come to Canterlot for a talk about the assassination." Whiplash added and Rainbow Dash flow away to find Twilight, and the others.

The newly crowded Changling queen, queen Cylis heard the news about the pony princesses had been assassinated and had been given a letter asking for an audience in Canterlot.

"The nerve of those ponies, they are going to blame my subjects and I over their leaders deaths, here it's a normal thing, I killed the last queen myself." Cylis said to herself. "But I guess I must go, otherwise they will blame me for it. Gilus! Koji! Belador! Get in here!" The three Changling warriors rushed in, convenient that they had been outside.

"Yes my queen." Belador said, bowing.

"You three will accompany me to Canterlot, we have issues to debate over there." Cylis ordered, the three bowed then went to get ready. 'These ponies shall not blame me.'

With Twilight now free to move without guards arresting her, word went out that Celestia and Luna were dead, straight away ponies began to fight, a few unicorns had figured out how to control the sun and moon, but they couldn't hold harmony in Equestria. Old rivalries began to flare up and ponies started to fight on the streets, began to steal. A murder came up, first time since coming to the land of Equestria. Twilight still kept the doors and windows defended, but now fearful from looters and thieves. Spike was sleeping, and Twilight had invited her five closest friends to stay, safety in numbers and all. A scream flared out in the night and Applejack shot up, Rarity and Fluttershy sharing the spare bed, Rainbow was sharing with Pinkie Pie,  whilst Twilight and Applejack kept watch, Applejack had opted out of a bed to help Twilight, until the apple bucket had fallen asleep. AJ's farm had been looted badly and both Granny Smith and Big Mac were in the hospital. Applejack had a sprained leg, but was okay. Equestria was in complete disarray and Twilight was surprised Discord hadn't returned. It had been three days since the two princesses had died. So much had happened. Apparently the inter-racial debate over the assassination was in two months, Twilight, Rarity and some elite unicorn named Frebart would represent the unicorn race. Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Ironhead from the southern corner of Equestria would be there for the Pegasi, Applejack, if her leg was better, Pinkie Pie, and a northern Earth pony named Cherry Pots would be there for the Terran Ponies. Apparently, even the legendary Sea ponies were coming, or at least their air breathing embassies. The Changlings were coming, the dragon followers of the east, all over Equestria embassies and leaders of each race were coming together, to find out who had killed Celestia and Luna. But first, they had to all survive.

"Day nine. I sent Spike to the market today, for things had died down a little. I was wrong, he hasn't returned and we are running out of food, Canterlot won't send aid, ponies are rioting all over Equestria, this dead line must be sped up, the land can't handle it, I wish Celestia were still alive. Some Earth ponies broke in yesterday, broke Rainbows wings and stole a load of books, we had all been sleeping but Rainbow, now she may never fly again. The fighting is mainly at night now, where old rivals have gotten stronger, and harder, I went up to the balcony, there are pony dead everywhere, only a few I knew, but this was getting out of hand, we are quickly running out of food and we are down to daily rations. The two princesses reined a long time, both together and apart, but the reaction to their deaths is overpowering. Maybe their presence really did keep Harmony, and not just metaphorically, without them, ponies hate, ponies fear, ponies fight. It was wrong.' Twilight had been keeping a diary on some spare parchment over the days to keep herself sane. The others were tired, hurt and hungry. Rainbow stared at her wings all of the day, and cried herself to sleep at night, Rainbow Dash had probably saved all their lives if not for her bravery against the Earth pony looters.

"Twilight, get some sleep, I'll keep watch." Rarity said, not her normal, posh self, she sounded tired, like all of them, her black eye from the other days attempt to get food was now a dark purple, much like her mane.

"No, Rarity you need your sleep." Twilight replied, as tired as Rarity was.

"As do you. Now go." Rarity's hair was messy and broken, none of them had showered in eight days, but being clean wasn't really on anypony's mind right now. Rarity pushed Twilight's flank closer to the stairway.

"Fine. How's the eye?" Twilight asked.

"It's, it's fine dear." Rarity replied and Twilight looked for the lies in her friends eyes, found them, Rarity was in pain, much like Rainbow and her wings, Applejack and her leg. Most of them now had some sort of wound. Twilight looked sadly at the white unicorn before her and let a single tear fall down her check.

A month pasted and still no aid, they had gotten some food, but in return, Twilight had two legs broken, and each had cuts all over them, Twilight wasn't sure where from, but the unicorns had found some knives and swords and was using them against everypony. On their way back, with barely a bag of apples and carrots, they saw Zacora, dead. Among others, dead. Blood was everywhere and limbs were missing. Twilight limped back to the tree house, there was still no sign of Spike and each knew what that meant. Dragon scales, even little ones, would sell a lot. Three weeks until the gathering and Twilight began to wonder how it would go, she'd seen Ponyville, it was in ruins, even her tree house had scars and blood on it, the tree itself was dying and the sun was up much longer, the unicorns in Canterlot losing their powers, the days all together were getting longer, just yesterday, or the day before? Twilight didn't know anymore, anyway, the last night had been almost sixteen hours long, and the daytime was over twenty. None of the group had kept any sort of time and they went to bed when they were tired. Rarity's eye had gotten infected and she was almost blind in that eye. Rainbow still needed medical attention on her broken wings, they were getting worse each day. Fluttershy had flow back to her home to look for supplies, only to find her cottage in ashes. She returned back with a few cabbages and Angel's bloodied body. Twilight had buried him out front when the coast was clear. Derpy Hooves had knocked once, asking for food and shelter, when Pinkie had opened the door Derpy had attacked her, crushing a few ribs and stealing a dozen carrots before anypony stopped her. Pinkie was still coughing blood.

"One week until the gathering." Twilight muttered, leg hurting badly. Rainbow Dash limped toward Twilight and whimpered, Twilight had tried every spell she knew on healing, but nopony knew anything about wounds this bad. There had never been a pony war.

"That is, if Canterlot is still there, that force field of your brothers went down almost three normal days ago. We all saw it." Rainbow Dash replied.

"I hope he is okay. Along with Candace. Her love sure won't save her. But maybe being alicorn, she might have some power." Twilight replied.

"Let's just focus on us." Fluttershy snapped, she hadn't been normal since the out burst, but after finding Angel dead, she had snapped inside. Applejack still hadn't heard from Applebloom, and Sweetie Bella was missing too, Scotaloo was knowingly dead, his depressing corpse hung outside the bowling alley. Rarity wished for her sister to be safe, as did Applejack, but now a days, nopony knew who was still out there, the fighting had died down a little and it was relatively safe to go out side now, but the wounded, lost ground waited for the chariots of Canterlot to save them. Take them away to somewhere safe. Some place open and warm, with food and laughter again, Twilight missed the laughter, for the first few days of the riots Pinkie had been normal, now, like everypony else, she was twisted and dark, completely to herself. Harmony itself was falling, now the Elements were as well. Equestria was dead, pony peace and life was at an end, the world was still, fighting amongst itself to survive without a leader. Equestria was done for, no pony would be alive to see the new world forge itself.