Acceptance

(My Little Pony is own by Hasbro and Lauren Faust, the OCs here are mine)

Chapter 5: The Hand That Feeds

Celestia was in her room sitting on her red carpet facing her desk. She had the chest in front of her and the knife to the side along with each item spreaded out on top of the desk. Her room was dark as the only light she had to provide for herself was a small candle that was set on the side of the table. She was studying very hard on the chest and knife. She levitated a large black book with the signature of Starswirl the Bearded. "I think that if I find any pictures of the hieroglyphics stones tooken from the Zion excavation, I might be able to use the patterns on this knife to figure out what happened to the Zionist." She said flipping through pages. She soon stopped on one page and spotted a picture of a sun that had Zionist hieroglyphics drawn on the sides of its pointed rays.

"What's this?" She asked herself in a muttering tone. She glanced at the patterns on the knife and back at the picture beginning to decipher it. "Made the Great One provide us safety and promises. May the Great One grant us passage to the Promise Land. May the Great One open up a new door for all of us. May the Great One lead us through this Exodus. Farewell Zion, may the last ones who find you, old and wise, keep your legacy alive. For the city that falls will be eternal in history. For the city you are Zion, you will be remember in stone." She started flipping more pages spotting more hieroglyphics. She started to decipher them again hoping to get more answers out of the book.

"Some of this these carvings are illigble. I can read some of it though." Celestia said. "The Great One is going to open up the gates to The Promised Land. Finally, we will all bask around in the Great One's paradise. Soon, we will be away from the ****. The **** will never achieve the great fortunes that we are going to be granted. (The rest is illigble)" Celestia sighed looking at the other picture. "Hmm, this must have been written from another pony." She said looking at the picture closely before she looked at the knife to help her decipher it.

"The Great One is coming, I am so happy, but why? Mommy and daddy said that I have to give away something that I cherish the most. I cherish my coin a lot but I can't just simply let it go. I wonder what cherishable item they are going to give away to The Great One. Everytime I ask them what they were going to give away? They always tell to go to my room. I wonder why, what are they hiding from me? Maybe it isn't a big deal. Maybe I am just to young to understand what rightfully belongs in this world. I guess I am also to young to understand why the Great One requires items that we all cherish the most. It doesn't matter anymore. Mommy said she is going to take me off to see the Sunset Celebration. Queen Sunni is going to make a presence along with her sister, Queen Mani.

I can't wait to see them. Their presence in the center of the city is going to be fantastic. Not only will they say their speech, they are goign to host a feast for all of Zion. I think I should bring my best friend White Cheza to the celebration. I bet she would be very happy. She always told me that she wanted to try and talk to the queens on how happy she was to have them as her rulers of wonderful city."

Celestia sighed closing the book. She glanced at the knife and back at the book. "All I am getting is blanks. No direct explainations to how they dissappeared." She said wiping sweat off of her brow. A knock was heard from the door behind her. "Who is it?" She asked.

"It is us, Tia." Celestia heard a grown mare's voice on the other side of her door.

"Come in, Luna." Celestia said getting up and stretching down, bending her back forward. Her wings stretched out releasing some tight knots. When her door opened, she turned around looking at a night blue mare who was three feet smaller than her. The mare had blue eyes and a blue astral like mane and tail similar to her mane and tail that flow around with no laws to gravity. Her cutie mark was a full moon with black clouds surrounding it. "Do you need something, Luna?"

"Yes, Tia, we were informed that you founded a pony with the strange case of amnesia." She said.

"No, he isn't suffering from amnesia, that's impossible. He knows what I am asking and he knows the answers that I want from him, he just chooses not to answer them." She said looking out the window, staring at the full moon outside surrounded by the bright stars in the knight.

"So, do you think he is jerstering with you?" Luna asked, walking by her sister side, staring at her with concern.

"No, I think he is trying to tell me something. He's making a puzzle for me, he wants me to put each piece together so it could form up the right picture. This pony, says that he has no name, but I believe that he does have a name. He knows it, I can tell, but he won't tell me." She said looking at Luna with an irritated face. "I am becoming frustrated with him, Luna."

"We could tell by the look you are giving us. Maybe we could be of assistance to you, sister?" Luna asked earning a sigh of relief from her sister.

"Yes, you may, that would be very much appreciated. The Patient told me that he couldn't sleep for more then five seconds. I want you to put him into a deep sleep so you could investigate his dreams. They might be helpful in assisting me on obtaining the answers that I am searching for." Celestia said.

"We understand, Tia. So, besides this Patient's puzzles...what are you doing now?" Luna asked, glancing at the chest and ancient knife on top of the desk.

Celestia sat back down and looked at the items she had scatter on the wooden surface. "These are the items I founded in the abandon home that was once owned by the Sundertear family. I am trying to decipher these Zionist hieroglyphics. So far, the information that I am getting from the book is coming out on my end either. It is like the world is trying to form up a puzzle for me and what it gives me is...this Patient." She said.

"Don't worry, Tia, we am sure the answers that you are seeking will rightfully be where it belongs." Luna said.

"Rightfully?" Celestia repeated looking at her confused.

"Yes sister." Luna answered.

"Rightfully where it belongs...rightfully where it belongs!" Celestia shouted scaring her sister as she quickly trotted towards her window. She opens it and looks out, glancing left and right. "Luna, I think I figure it...you, sorry, you help me figure it out!" She said excitingly as she quickly levitated the Knife of Zion to her side. She held it high up to the glinting moonlight and levitated the book to the side so she could read the page she flipped on. She spotted a picture of the moon and sun that had hieroglyphics drawn on the sides of its rounded drawn line. "Luna, listen closely."

"Yes, Tia." Luna said nodding her head.

"A little girl wrote on a wall, I guess that it was her diary, about this almighty being called The Great One. You see, the girl said that she had to give away something valuable to this great one in order for to get into the Promised Land. She mentioned how she believed that she was just to young to understand that everything that happens a lot around her that she doesn't understand at all is right where it belongs. Now, you see Luna, the blade was made to not only be a alphabetical dictionary, but also an compass that would lead me to the answers that I am looking for. The answers in which they are where they belong, for me and perhaps somepony else!" Celestia said spinning the blade around. The moon's rays of light made the blade glowed causing the two alicorn princesses to gasp in amazement. "See!" She yelled as a string length of light pointed straight towards the direction the Sundertear's home was located at.

"Strange, it is pointing straight at the...wait." Luna stopped talking when she saw the house glowed green. Through the bedroom window where the ray of light was pointing straight through, another small ray of light pointed out of the window, pointing straight towards the Everfree forest.

"There, Luna!" Celestia said pointing her hoof at the Everfree. She looked at Luna and hugged her. "Thank you so much, sister."

"You are welcome, Tia. Sister, you are acting like a filly in her sweet sixteen." Luna said with a small giggle at the end of her sentence.

Celestia giggled back before breaking the hug. "I know, it's just that I've been trying to solve this mystery for quite a while and it was quite aggrivating to very least." She said.

"Well, we are glad that managed to break it." Luna said proudly.

"I am sure you are, now, there is no time to waste. Luna, be ready for tomorrow, tell The Patient that I will reschedule our meeting on the day after tomorrow." Celestia said setting the stuff on top of the table.

"We understand, sister!" Luna said happily.

"Good, now, if you excuse me, I have a forest to visit!" Celestia said running out of the room with a saddle bag around her back. Celestia soon stopped and turned back heading back to her room. "Luna, you could handle lifting up the sun while I am gone for the day?"

"Of course, sister." Luna said nodding her head.

"Good, alright, I am going now, take care sister!" Celestia shouted before she went down her path. Luna sighed and looked back out of the mirror. The knife and chest were both gone except the letters. She trotted over to the desk and looked at the letters. As she was about to read the first one she heard her name called behind her. She quickly turned around spotting Doctor Levamentum. He had a grim look abroad his muzzle. It sent shivers through her spine.

"I wouldn't touch that if I were you, Luna." He said walking inside the room, closing the door behind him. The light from the moon cast its glow upon the doctor allowing him to be somewhat visible in the darkness. Luna stood firm staring at the doctor cautiously.

"What are you doing here, Levamentum, and that is Princess Luna?" She said.

"I will state your name anyway that I want, Luna. What I am here for is to collect what is rightfully not yours or your sister's." He said.

"There is nothing here for you, Levamentum." She said.

"There is, those letters. I want those letters, Luna. Give them to me." He said in a demanding tone.

"You dare order, your own princess?!" She shouted.

"You listen up!" He yelled causing her to become silent. "Do you even have any clue who you are talking to? Do you? No, because it doesn't matter. All you need to do in order to avoid any more trouble that your sister is in...is to...hand...over those...letters." He said digging his right foreleg hoof into the ground.

"Why?" She asked in a frightened tone.

"Why, trust me, I wish I could tell you, but you won't understand. What your sister is getting into is going to risk everything that I was risking my life on. Tomorrow, when you go to my patient, I want you to instead of putting him to sleep. I want you to kill him in his sleep and make it look like an accident. If you try avoiding this and attempt to get me caught on my activities, I will personally make you regret it. I will not kill you, I will not kill your sister, no...I will make suffer more than Nightmare Moon did when she was inside of you." He said. Luna could feel a surge of fear taking over her body.

"W-what are you?" She asked.

He walked forward until the light touched his entire body. His eyes were glowing bright. "I am somepony you should listen to...Luna." He said before walking next to her staring at the letters. He picked up the letters and held them above the lighted candle. Luna watched in fear as the doctor burned the letters ignoring the fire that was touching his hoof. He was showing no signs of pain as the flame purged the letters into nothing more than burnt folds of paper that was completely impossible to read off. When they were now turned to glinting dust he glanced at the alicorn and then looked back at the exit. "I expect you obey words if it I were you, Luna." He said before walking towards the exit. When he was gone, Luna sat down breathing heavily with sweat rolling down her cheeks.

"His eyes...they were...dear the heavens, he is no normal pony." She said.

In Peach Glow's home, she was heard a loud knocking coming from her bathroom. She awoke from her sleep and hopped off her bed, heading towards the bathroom. "Who is in there?!" She shouted opening the door. Her anger that was flaring off of her faded off when Leamas was in front of her. He was covered in blood stains. His pupils shrunken to tiny dots. "Leamas, how did you even get in here?!"

"Help...me." He muttered in raspy tone before falling forward into her forelegs.

"Leamas, Leamas!" She yelled his name while shaking him, but he didn't respond. Looking in the bathroom she froze in shock when she saw the mirror was covered in blood. A blood trail from the sink and ground ended at the end of her door. "I have to tell the princess." She muttered setting Leamas down. She checked his pulse and sighed in relief. He was still alive.

"And who is going to allow you to do that, Peach Glow?" A familiar voice asked causing the mare to turn around. It was The Patient standing at entrance of her bathroom. "I am afraid you are going to stay here for a very long time." He said walking towards her. Peach backed away trembling.

"How did you get in here, shouldn't you be in the hospital?" She asked bumping into the end of her bed.

"Ask yourself, was it a good idea to go into the Sundertear's house again even after you committed sin in their halls. Hmm? Stealing is a terrible sin. But even Leamas sin is horrible. He slept with the father...a lot. Crazy right, but that was because he wasn't his sin, it was the father's. Leamas sin was lust and greed. Just like you, except you were filled with envy. Joyful, right? Such sick secrets you ponies try to keep away from me is so not nice especially from your own ruler. Sad." He said chuckling softly.

"What are you even talking about?!" She yelled.

"You know what I am talking about, Peach. You can't hide your sins from me, because I am something nopony can save you from. I am you in the mirror." He said pinning her to the wall.

"W-what?" She asked.

"PEACH!" Leamas yelled shaking her awake. Peach woke up yelling in terror, swinging her hooves left and right. "CALM DOWN!" Leamas yelled holding her down.

"LET ME GO!" She cried out.

"It was just a bad dream, calm down!" He yelled causing her to stop her panic attack and look at him with tear stains across her eyes and cheeks.

"H-he was there! He cutting me, yelling at me that he was in the mirrors. He kept telling me that he was always there! He made up lies to mess with my mind, and it work, it work! He is a demon, a demon from hell. HE IS THE DEVIL!" She yelled.

"Who?" Leamas asked containing her.

"That damn Patient!" She snapped.

"Peach, it was just a bad dream, you are going to be okay!" He said brushing her messy sweaty mane back and wiping some tears away from her eyes.

"A dream...it felt so real?" She whimpered.

"Dreams always feels real, but they aren't. Look, I am about to go now. I am going to the Sundertear's place so I could investigate a little bit more of the place. Maybe find something that could help the princess out." He said.

"O-okay..." Peach frowned. "Be careful." She said.

"I will, now go to sleep, sis." He said hugging her tight. Peach nodded her head before breaking the hug and laying back down on her bed. Leamas sighed and quickly trotted out of the room. He knew his sister had bad sleeping problems, but he would of never expected them to be this crazy. "I wonder what scared her that much in her sleep?" As he walked outside his house, he glanced at a fading glow of light from the forest. He rubbed his head, curious to what it was, but he decided to let it slide and headed off to the Sundertear's house. Little did he know...that he wouldn't be the only one in the house.

-To Be Continue-