Spark's POV

After a couple minutes of flying, I finally find a small forest I can hide out in. I decide to land and go on hoof the rest of the way. Lowers my chance of being caught anyway. I trek through the forest for Celestia knows how long, feeling very sleepy. All of a sudden, I hear a tree branch snap, making me stop in my tracks. I'm debating whether or not I'm just hearing things due to my lack of sleep. But then I hear leaves rustling. I'm not hearing things...

"Who's there?" I call out.

The sound gets louder and I eventually find the courage to attack whatever is sneaking up on me. I use my magic to pick up a stick and let out a battle cry as I squeeze my eyes shut and attack the creature.

"Oww!" the creature whines.

I open my eyes and use a light spell to see what I hit. More like who...

"Crescent?!" I shriek.

Sitting in front of me is Crescent, who is rubbing his forehead and looks up at me annoyingly.

"Hey Spark." he grumbles.

"What are you doing here?!" I hiss.

"Following you! What do you think?!" he hisses back.

"Well if you were trying to sneak up on me, you weren't doing a very good job." I snarl at him.

"I wasn't trying to sneak up on you! I just said I was following you!" he argues.

I roll my eyes and Crescent lowers his hoof from his forehead. He has a cut that's covered by his mane. I make him sit back down as he starts to stand up. He looks up at me confused as I set my bindle on the ground and untie it, taking out the mini first aid kit I packed. Moving Crescent's hair out of the way, I disinfect the cut and cover it with a bandage.

"There." I say, a little happy that my first aid skills came to use.

Crescent looks amazed but only for a second. His face goes back to being all serious and whatnot as he realizes the task at hoof.

"Why are you out here in the middle of the night?" he finally asks.

"Was running away." I say, continuing to walk again.

I hear Crescent get up and start following me. "R-Run away?! Are you insane?!"

"Nah. I was getting tired."

"Of what?"

"You're a princess. You gotta do this right. Blah, Blah, Blah." I say mockingly.

I could've sworn I heard Crescent chuckle a little. We walk in silence for a while until Crescent breaks it.

"So what now? Do you have a certain destination in mind?" he asks.

"Nope."

"Wait, Wait, Wait. I'm sorry. Did... Did you just say you don't have anywhere you plan to go?"

"Mhm." I nod.

Crescent takes a deep breath and tries not to snap. He ends up failing miserably and starts telling me all the things I'm doing wrong. Pissing him off is one of my favorite things to do. Though it can get annoying after some time.

"Okay! I get it! I'm doing a lot of things wrong, according to you." I grumble. "I guess a destination I have in mind is a small village or something. I dunno."

Crescent casts a spell of some sort and a magical arrow now hovers over the both of us.

"I located a village nearby!" Crescent starts.

"Well let's go then!" I say.

"But... it's gonna take a day or two to get there though." Crescent finishes glumly.

"And? I really don't see the problem here. Now c'mon! Stop being a slowpoke!"

Crescent sighs and catches up with me as we start to make our way towards the village.

"Ugh! We've been walking forever!" Crescent whines.

"We've literally been walking for 1 hour..." I say.

"Like I said. For-e-ver! I'm probably gonna pass out!"

I groan and roll my eyes. "Stop being over dramatic! You gonna live!"

All of a sudden a beam of light shines in my eyes causing me to flinch and squeeze my eyes shut. After a while, I blink a couple of times to restore my vision.

"Aw come on! We've been up all night?!" Crescent whines.

"Yeah. I guess we have." I say, yawning.

"I really think we should get some sleep." Crescent says.

"Nuh uh. We're gonna keep going."

"But-"

"No buts! You decided to follow me when I decided to run away. So now you play by my rules."

"Ughhh. Fine. Whatever."

Everest's POV

I run down the hallway all the way to Spark's room expecting her to still be sleeping. I bust open the door and realize Spark's not in bed. That's weird. I was gonna give her a gift, which is an alarm clock, so she won't be late all the time.

"Sparkles? Where are you?" I call out.

I look around her room and find a note on her bed. I pick it up and read it out loud.

"To whoever it may concern (hopefully Everest),

I ran away. Don't look for me.

Signed, Spark."

Some goodbye note that was. I immediately march over to Mr. Windsor's office and slam the note on his desk. He reads the note and chuckles.

"Well that's one less student I have to deal with so I don't really see a problem here."

I charge my horn up and point it at Mr. Windsor, who backs up in his chair in fear.

"My best friend ran away and you don't care?! One of the students that you're responsible for?! What would her parents think, huh?! As a princess, I demand that we cast a search party for Spark. Now."

"Y-Yes princess. Right away princess."

All of a sudden, a male alicorn with a yellow coat with a cyanish mane bursts into the office. I stop pointing my horn at Mr. Windsor and look at the alicorn.

"P-Prince Brisk. What can I do for you?" Mr. Windsor asks, clearing his throat.

"Crescent's not in his room. Or anywhere else in the school." he says. "Oh hi Everest!"

I look down blushing and wave. "Hi."

Mr. Windsor looks at Brisk like he's crazy.

"Crescent?! My star student?! This will not stand! I'm calling a search party for Crescent!"

I raise my eyebrow and clear my throat.

"And Spark." I say.

"And Spark." Mr. Windsor repeats.

Brisk looks at me. "Spark's missing too?"

I nod my head. "She wasn't in bed and I found this note."

I show the note to Brisk and he gasps. "She ran away?!"

"Mhm! Wait... This may be a crazy idea but... what if Crescent went with her?"

"Crescent?! Go with Spark?! You're kidding!" Mr. Windsor laughs.

Brisk glares at Mr. Windsor which shuts him up. He looks back at me and smiles.

"You may be onto something Everest... What if for some reason Crescent saw Spark sneak out?"

"Oh yeah! He always goes late at night to get a glass of water! Maybe at that time he saw Spark and decided to follow her!"

"Exactly! So all we have to do is find Spark and hope that Crescent is with her!"

Mr. Windsor clears his throat and sighs. "If you two are so sure about this, you two can lead the search party."

"Really?!" I squeal. "That'd be great!"

"With the help of the royal guards of course." Mr. Windsor adds.

Of course there had to be a downside to this. Everypony, except the staff, knows that the guards suck at their job. Brisk sighs and nods his head so I do the same.

"Very well then. Now leave me be."

And with that, Mr. Windsor kicks both me and Brisk out of his office.

"Ugh. That guy's the worse..." I grumble.

"Tell me about it..." Brisk mutters.

He grabs my hoof and helps me up. I try to hide the redness of my cheeks as Brisk smirks at me.

"So what's the plan?" he asks.

"Plan?"

"To find Spark and Crescent."

"Well... We have to wait for now but I do have a few plans up my sleeve..."

Crescent's POV

"Now?"

"Nope."

"How about now?"

"I said no."

"Spark come on! We've been walking for 3 hours now! We need sleep!" I groan.

"More like you need sleep! I'm perfectly fine!"

Spark turns around and I flinch. She has bags under her eyes and her hair is all frazzled. Her eyes are bloodshot and half closed. That's the last straw.

"Okay. That's it. You're sleeping whether you like it or not." I say.

"No!"

"Yes!"

I use my magic and grab Spark by her tail. She tries to resist but is too tired to do anything. She eventually gives up and lets me drag her into a nearby cave. It seems to be empty. I sit down next to Spark as she groans.

"Do we have to?" she asks.

"Yes! What do you have against sleeping?" I ask.

"I dunno..."

I roll my eyes and use my magic to make a pillow and a blanket appear. I put the pillow down and urge Spark to lie on it. I expect her not to but she does it willingly. Surprisingly. I pull the blanket over her and within a matter of seconds, she's fast asleep. I sigh in relief and fall asleep next to Spark.

A couple hours later...

I wake up and rub my eyes. It's night time now. I look to my side and realize Spark is awake, drawing in the dirt with a stick. She's drawing herself without wings and a horn.

"How do you think ponies would treat us if we weren't royalty..?" she asks, looking at me.

"I don't know. Probably like your average everyday pony." I answer.

Spark lies next to me and is real close too. My cheeks flush a little but I quickly shake it off.

"We should get going. If we hurry, we should be at the village by morning." I say.

Spark nods and I poof away the pillow and blanket. Spark smirks and boops my nose while flying.

"You're it!"

She flies out of the cave quickly and I groan quickly flying after her. Our chase is awfully short due to Spark flying into a spider web. She crashes and starts flailing her legs while screaming.

"Get it off! Get it off!" she screeches.

I start laughing and help take the spider web off her face. She glares at me as I continue to laugh.

"T-That was hilarious!" I giggle.

"Shut up..." she mumbles, blushing in embarrassment.

"But y-you were screaming and r-rolling on the ground!"

Spark glares at me even harder. "You try being deathly afraid of spiders!"

"Whatever. I-I'm gonna remember that for the rest of my life!"

"Let's just keep going!" Spark yells, her cheeks even redder.

"Alright, Princess Deathly-Scared-Of-Spiders."

"Ughhh!"

Brisk's POV

The royal guards found a nice place to set up our campsite for the night. Everest and I sleep in one tent with two guards at the entrance. We've been looking for Crescent and Spark all day and found nothing. So Everest and I are currently planning in our tents.

"Ok so when all the guards fall asleep, we cut a hole through the back of the tent and escape through there. Then we fly off and look for them ourselves! Got it?" Everest says.

"Got it!" I reply. "I gotta admit, you're awesome at making plans!"

Everest looks down and smiles a little. "Thanks." she mumbles.

We both wait a few minutes before we hear snoring. Everest peeks out the tent and gives me the all clear. I use my magic and cut a hole big enough for us to crawl through. We go through the hole and quickly fly away from the campsite.

"Okay so... What now?" I ask.

"We find Spark and Crescent." Everest says plainly.

"Well obviously. But how?"

"I don't know. But no matter what, I'm going to find my best friend."

Author's Note

Sorry for the long wait... I just haven't been feeling like it for the past few months. I kinda shut down soo yeah... Anyways, this was Chapter 2 of The Royal Runaway! I hoped you enjoyed it and feel free to leave opinions!