Arcadia
The Precursor
Previous Chapter2010, 21:21, Arcadian Science Labs
"Leave them on over night" I said to the computer as the Luna Panels charged in the Moonlight, The Moonlight based lifeforms needed to charge over night. But to this day I still can't figure out what went wrong.
2012, 23:03, Mystery Port
"Dammit!" I said aloud to myself, It seemed this culprate makes their escape via wings but unfortunately I lack the genetic signature to grow the bloody things but I wasn't about the let her get away with this because she's stopping me from getting to Equestria. After all the hullabaloo me and Sharphorn started talking about who this might be, but it's not easy when you catch just a glimpse of a tiny picture, but Sharphorn remembered Ol' Bumfluff and suggested we go see if he knows anypony with a heart with knife cutie mark.
"Sorry twins, Can't help you" stuttered Ol' Bumfluff, he smelled horrid, he'd drank 4 gallons of cider and I was surprised he hadn't drowned his liver, but the evidence was everywhere such as the fact he thought there was more than 1 Dark Aurora.
"But I do recall seeing a pony with a markie cute like that!" he stammered tumbling towards the ground. BONK! His jaw hit the ground with a hard thump,
"What?! When?" Yelled Sharphorn dashing back towards him,
"2.1 seconds ago! She's right there!" He said with a drunken smile and pointing his hoof at the cloaked pony behind us, we stared at her with her responding, she looked up and revealed her magenta eyes, for a brief moment she looked suprised but quickly calmed herself. I turned to Sharphorn but she was just sneering at the cloaked pony,
"Let's get her!" Whispered Sharphorn into my ear but I just held her back with my hoof,
"Don't worry, I got this" I said with a mischievous smile,
"Excuse me miss, me and my partner here have been searching the area for a insane killer. I don't suppose you've seen any suspicious ponies around here?" I said walking over to the cloaked mare,
"Oh yes! Thank goodness! A police officer! I found something rather odd down this street! Please follow me!" said the cloaked pony with a rather terrified voice. She pulled me around the corner into a dark alleyway,
"Hey...I don't see any-" I said cut off, the greenish black fog was clouding the alleyway,
"*COUGH* Uhg, HEY! ANYPONY THERE?!" I yelled looking around in the green fog, I was trying to turn back but the gate at the start of the ally had cranked shut. I heard a clopping noise on the cobblestone floor, it was getting louder and suddenly it stopped but it there was still a noise that sounded like wings flapping. There was a small area where the fog was clearing but I didn't dare go near it, that must've been the area where the pegusis was flapping her wings. Suddenly I heard a stallion yell
"YAAAAAARG!" out of the fog and knocked me down to the ground, he lunged at my face with a knife and I stopped his arm with my hoof, his arm two arms where stronger than my hoof though and was moving his knife closer to my throte, as his knife was just inches away from my throte I lunged with my free hoof and punched him in the face, he let out a yelp and rolled off me and with the chance I lept up off the ground. Light was peering through the green fog and before he got up and ran off I saw his mane was Black with a blue streak. I chased him out of the alleyway but like the Mare he was a pegusis and flew off,
"Dammit!" I yelled slamming my hoof to the ground, I got into my head that this was an assassination attempt on me but at least we know there's more than one killer. Sharphorn ran round the corner tending to me to make sure I wasn't hurt, a little over protective for a military commander but what ever we soon made our way back to the market to try Sharphorns way with the cloaked pony.
"HEY THERE TWINS!, I saw her! I saw the pony your looking for!" bellowed Captian Bumfluff in the town center drawing attention to himself,
"What? Where?" Responded Sharphorn jumping towards him,
"Right over there!" He said once again pointing behind us, the cloaked pony looked up and said
"Uh oh!" and ran off, we chased her all through the town and down alleyways suddenly she threw a knife behind her but with a sidestep I had made a lucky dodge but she continued to sprint away. Me and Sharphorn were drawing in on her but she suddenly unfurled her wings and was preparing to fly away,
"Oh no you don't!" Shouted Sharphorn with a angry expression and quickly whipped her gun out,
"Wait! Don't!" I yelled but she didn't listen and proceeded to fire, *BANG* went her gun with the bullet skimming her Cutie Mark and going straight into her wing.
"GAAAH!" she screamed in agony and propelled towards the ground,
"Don't let her get away!" I yelled pointing my hoof at her whilst panting but Commander Sharphorn sprinted ahead to make a dive, Sharphorn grabbed the killers flank and scraped off her Cutie Mark but slipped and the culprate made off into the dark of the ally,
"DAMMIT!" I yelled running over to her,
"what?" I whispered to myself looking at Sharphorns hoof,
"A fake Cutie mark?" she said to herself looking at the plastic skin, Sharphorn picked herself up and we retreated to the tavern.
19:45 PM and we continued to talk about this mystery inside the tavern but I knew the killer was here but for some reason I recognized her voice...It reminded me of...but no...It couldn't be her...I know her and she isn't a killer but either way we were about to find out who it was but we saw the Cutie mark on the other side of her flank and she was covering the side that had got the Cutie Mark scraped off but she was also looking over at us breifly then flickering back to her accompaniment,
"Do you know her?" Sharphorn said looking at me,
"Her? I don't know..." I responded turning back to Sharphorn reaching for my drink, I took a gulp of the Cider and quickly placed it back on the table,
"*Cough* Ew, god that's horrible" I said rubbing my throte but this taste wasn't Cider...It was Cyanide,
"Uh OH!" I yelled grabbing my stomach with the killer dashing out the tavern,
"Get HERK!" I said cringing and falling to the ground,
"What?!" Yelled Sharphorn jumping to my aid,
"CYANIDE! GAAH!" I yelled in agony holding my stomach,
"Cyanide?! OH! Quickly take this!" she yelled tossing a pill into my mouth but my throte was contracting,
"Erm...Erm!" Said Sharphorn looking around with a crowd circling around us,
"Well here goes nothing!" Sharphorn said locking lips with me,
"MMRPH?!SHPHRN?" I muffled into her mouth but then I started to relax and was blushing with my throte relaxing and the pill dropping into my stomach I opened my eyes and said
"Mmmm...Shphrn?" I muffled once again,
"Shphrn?" I muffled but she got a little carried away, her eyes where closed and she was smiling and blushing,
"Shphrn?" I once again said but Sharphorn was just giggling with her eyes closed and was braiding my mane,
"SHPHRN!" I yelled into her mouth,
"oooh!" she muffled opening her eyes,
"Teehee, sorry, got a bit carried away" she said winking at me,
"Let's go then!" she said gleefully skipping out of the tavern, my expression was gaumless but my attention was drawn to a local who encouragingly shouted,
"NICE ONE MATE! SHE'S BANGABLE!" said a red stallion with a blue and black mane. I dashed out of the tavern and the killer was talking with another cloaked pony,
"What?!" she yelled with a perplexed look on her face but quickly turned to run,
"Alright! Enough running!" Sharphorn yelled shooting her gun at the killers hooves crippling the killers legs,
"Let's get down to the bottom of this" I said walking over to the killer who was trying to limp away, I pushed her into the wall and held her by the throte,
"Right then mystery...Solved!" I said pulling off the killers cloak,
"Wha...WHAT?!" I said in shock at who this was. To my suprise a Rainbow mane with a baby blue coat greeted me and a Cloud Cutie mark with a Rainbow lightning bolt,
"R-r-r-r-Rainbow Dash?!" I said in shock,
"Who the hells Rainbow Dash?" Said Sharphorn leaning against the wall,
"WHAAT?! I'm only the greatest flyer in ALL Equestria! Oh uh...Hehe...Well this is awkward..." said Rainbow Dash with a nervous chuckle,
"Dark Aurora, It's been too long!" Rainbow Dash said with a worried expression against my pissed off expression,
"Why...The...Hell...Are you killing people?!" I said pausing to think,
"Hmmmm...Sorry, Classified! Maybe you'll find out one day...Upon your death..." Rainbow Dash said with a evil smile,
"*Growl* Grrrr...Fine...Leave Mystery port and never come back" I said with an angry tone,
"But I-"
"Never..." I said cutting her off by holding a switchblade to her throte,
"Alright fine, Oh and here...take this" she said tossing me a capsule of liquid but I looked like pure light,
"What is this?" I responded looking into the capsule,
"It'll come in handy...Trust me" She said running off into the night,
"A capsule of light Eco?" Sharphorn said looking at the liquid filled capsule,
"Light what?" I responded with a perplexed tone,
"Light Eco! We came across Blue, red and green Eco in the desert"
she said smiling and told me to keep it. The next morning we made our way to the docks and Sharphorn was leaning on my shoulder, "Well, Looks like you Twins solved this Mystery! Ya did all right!" said Captian Bumfluff with a smile,
"I guess our ships can leave port now!" said Captian Bumfluff!
"Wait...Can you get us to Equestria?" asked Sharphorn with a lively look on her face,
"Sure can!" responded Captian Bumfluff,
"YES! Looks like this trip might not be so difficult after all!" I said looking at Sharphorn,
"Well Okay dokey then! ALL ABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOARD!" yelled Captian Bumfluff. We set sail for the Equestrian Continent, me and Sharphorn stood below decks talking about what happened the previous night, I told her I couldn't wrap my head around how Rainbow Dash was a murderer and why she was doing it but it's not like it mattered now, we'd set sail and that's what mattered, suddenly I could feel the ship wobbled around,
"Whoa, did you feel that?" I asked Sharphorn,
"Hmmm? Probably just the waves..." she responded but she was right, the shaking had stopped now and I'd found my see hooves. Above decks was slightly less crowded and more open to the sky, the suns rays shining down on my dark coat with the twinkle of the blue waves and the salty sea air in my nostrils,
"*HURK* BLURAAG!" wretched one of the Ponies over starboard side,
"Well...That killed the mood" I said in a sarcastic manner
"Let's go help him shall we?" I responded to Sharphorn,
"Yep, Poor sods probably not for off throwing up his whole lung" Sharphorn responded with us proceeding on to help the vomiting pony,
"Hey mate? You all right? Don't worry took me a while to get used to it too, first times are tough eh?" I said with a charisma tone,
"First time? I say! I've been at sea 30 times at least!" said the pony who was remarkably posh,
"Ok Aurora I got the bucket so...Pffft! Who's the nerd?" Commander Sharphorn said giggling to herself,
"I'll beg your pardon madam! I am a highly respected archeologist! I'm no 'Nerd' I say!" exclaimed the nerd, I mean uh...Archeologist, *Smirk*. The ship was pretty rickety today but I was quickly about to find out why,
"SEA DRAGONS AHOY!" yelled the navigator in the crows nest, as two dragon heads on spirally necks breached the water sending a huge splash down onto the ships upper deck,
"WELL SON OF A BI-" I exclaimed as the Sea dragon pelted the ship with water causing a huge hole to form.
