life changes

Chapter Two: Revelations

‘Royal wedding delayed do to invasion of the changeling race.’ That was the headline on the newspaper today, and when Aura had seen it, he panicked. Lyra had left with Bon-Bon to the wedding preparations not two weeks ago, what if something had happened to them. Aura was restless for a few nights to say the least. The only comfort that he took was that Queen Chrysalis was apprehended before she could do any real damage to Equestria, but there was no word of the bridesmaids in the newspaper.

Backfire had headed home about a week ago, so the house was still standing, but unfortunately there was nopony for Aura to tell his worries too. And if his worries weren’t put to rest soon, he felt as if he would fall into a mental breakdown. For the next few days, Aura was focused on all news outlets, until one day he got a message in his mail. It was an unassuming letter, but when he saw the contents of the letter, he was unsure if he should have jumped for joy, or have become even more worried.

“Aura

Meet me at the train station today at 8pm

I’ll explain everything.

Lyra.”

On the one hoof, Lyra was alive, however, Aura knew Lyra’s letters, they where usually long and very detailed. Aura had no choice but to meet her later at the station.

…

The station was quiet and empty. Minus a few late night workers, nopony was at the station but Lyra. As soon as Aura walked onto the platform, half expecting a tackle hug in normal Lyra fashion. What he got instead, was a slowly walking unicorn with tears dropping down her eyes and a rather quiet, but choked up greeting. It was incredibly depressing to see the poor unicorn like this. But that wasn't the most bothering thing to Aura. What was really bothering him was the fact that he didn’t see Bon-Bon anywhere. But just as he was about to ask, Lyra interrupted.

“If you’re wondering where Bon-Bon is…I-I…can I…oh celestia Aura!” Lyra burst out crying shortly after saying those words. What Aura immediately thought was that Bon-Bon had broken up with Lyra, though he decided it would be better if he were to wait for Lyra to explain it at home.

As soon as the two got to their house, Lyra sat on the couch and Aura brewed some tea. After about two minutes, Aura returned with the hot beverages, broke the silence.

“Okay, let’s forget about Bon-Bon for a second. Are YOU okay Lyra, the news about the attack scared me! Are you hurt, did you get any emotion drained? And how come I hadn’t gotten any letters about a week before the attack?” Aura stared at Lyra, waiting for a response. Lyra gathered her bearings, and began to explain.

“O-okay…both kind of go together…about a week into the preparations, Chrysalis used a spell on me and the other two bridesmaids…I talked to them later, it turns out the spell should have kept us from remembering what we did under her control, but I guess for me it didn’t quite work. Anyways under her control I heard what she was thinking at the time. I knew her plan days before anypony else did. And she made me do things very unlike me. From keeping the element of magic and the real princess locked up in a cavern, to us distracting the three head guards from the invasion by…” Lyra shuddered, and Aura signalled her that he got the message. “A-anyways those where no-where near the worst thing that I did” Lyra started to shake. “When I had arrived, I noticed that the other two bridesmaids didn’t bring any guests, at first I thought nothing of it but…” tears where starting to run down Lyra’s face. “…The first thing that she made me do was to my hotel room. I had a rope in my magic, and Chrysalis was muttering ‘finally at long last, he’s mine!’  So it was easy of me to figure out that she was after somepony.” Lyra’s voice was getting louder and louder with each word. “She walked into the bedroom, and when she saw Bon-Bon…” Lyra was shouting at the top of her lungs now. “…She cursed your name Aura! I-I-I don’t know why, or how she knew about you; but she wanted YOU!”  Lyra’s voice had gotten to the point of screaming, but that wasn’t the end of it. “And in her rage, s-she u-u-used the rope, and m-my body…SWEET CELESTIA AURA, SHE MADE ME STRANGLE BON-BON…TO DEATH!”

Aura had kept quiet the entire time; weather it was fear or sadness or the fact that he wanted to know what had happened that made him dare not say a word, he didn’t know. Aura was terrified the moment he heard his name, the changeling hive wanted him; whether they wanted him dead or alive was still unclear, but they wanted him. The minute that Lyra had finished her story with the fact that she was used to kill her marefriend, Aura grabbed her in a tight hug, and let her cry into his shoulder.

“It’s okay…it’s okay, calm down.” Aura was comforting Lyra as best as he could, being in guard training, he was used to hearing horrible news; but the fact that one of his best friends was just murdered caused him to cry almost as hard as Lyra was, however, Aura was being trained to keep a clear head in these situations. Aura spoke up with a more serious tone in his voice. “Let me get some things straight before we continue…” Aura started, and Lyra just nodded and started to listen. “...You did not kill her, it was the queen who did it, and you should take no guilt in what has happened. Secondly, I will send a letter to the princess myself and request some royal guards. This is very serious Lyra, and I will make sure nothing happens to us.”  Lyra responded with a very shaky okay, and hugged Aura even tighter.

…

Princess Celestia was working on some documents involving the recent attack by the changelings. Despite the uproar that had happened, the city of canterlot was rather peaceful, and the wedding finished on the day of the attack. However, after Princess Celestia had just singed a bill to allow a new search program, a letter with the words ‘message from guard in training: urgent’ was brought to her attention. As soon as the Princess saw the letter, she began to read.

“Your Majesty Princess Celestia.

“The purpose of this message is to request the presence of royal guards at the return address of this letter. It has come to my attention that during the recent event of the invasion, that the bridesmaids of Queen Chrysalis where put under a mind control spell. My good friend Lyra heartstrings was serving as one of the bridesmaids those fateful weeks; she claims that the memory properties of the spell had failed, and she also claims that the changeling armada may be searching for myself. Now I trust Lyra heartstrings with my life, and I am in a state of distress because of the events she has described for me. I hope for a swift reply.

Shining Aura,

Royal guard in training.

The princess read the final words with caution and fear. Had it been anypony else, she would had sent the letter to an investigations department to prove it’s reliability. But the name on the bottom of the page was ‘Shining Aura’.  Nearly without thought she approved the letter, and ordered two royal guards to the address on the letter. As soon as that was over, Celestia started to work on a letter to Aura’s mother

…

Two weeks had passed since Lyra’s return. Princess Celestia had approved Aura’s request, which gave him some satisfaction. Lyra however, barely left the house, and was incredibly quiet and depressed. Aura wished he could help his greatest friend more then he could, but he soon realised that the only way for Lyra to get over Bon-Bon was to give her time.

The search bill had made it’s way to ponyville, and it was time for Aura’s check. From what he had heard, they checked by taking a blood sample, and put into a rather large DNA checker. The pure science of it amazed Aura, but it was rather annoying that they where calling names for the search, instead of just getting you to be checked by a certain day. When Aura arrived at the makeshift clinic with guards following him, he saw that what he was told was true.

The last thing Aura remembered was sitting down in a simple chair, and a doctor took his blood, and walked behind a curtain. A ding was heard, along with a voice yelling “WE HAVE A REACTION”. Then everything went black

(A/N I know its not the 6K spectacular that we got last time, but I promise never to upload