White Feathers On A Black Night

=========Royal=========

I stood up and looked straight into those eyes. Eyes of darkness. Eyes of hate. Eyes of evil. The others started to get up.

"Holy shit," Bulk said as he got to his hoofs. "We actually found him."

Daring stared at Sombra as an archeologist would look at a relic. Ditzy stood up and looked at him.

He looked at the four of us, no emotion in his face. "So my fears are true." His voice was dark. "If new ponies are becoming my watchers then the beast from the other world must finally be planning something." He raised his, currently hornless, head and stared at Ditzy. "Please do tell me how far they've come to completing their sacrifice."

"They have two foals already. They plan to take your horn from the Crystal Castle at a celebration." I kept my voice calm.

"A celebration for my death. I presume."

"Y... yes." I was scared. I looked over at the others and they were scared too. We were talking to, now after Discord's and Nightmare Moon's reforment, plus Tirek's defeat, the greatest evil in Equestria.

"The guards at the empire won't be able to stop them." He turned and looked at the walls. "You must make hast. If they get my horn all they need to wait for is the Blackest Night." He looked back at us. "There are a lot of questions that you have. I suppose I'll answer." He stood there, waiting for use to ask.

==========Ditzy Do========

I took a step forward. "Why am I a watcher and what does that mean?"

He looked at me and closed his eyes, they had turned to red dragon-like eyes. "Why you are a watcher, I do not know. A thousand years ago I chose the watchers, why you and others are is beyond me."

"Oth... others?" Daring asked.

"Yes others. I can feel that others live. As for what it means. It means you are one blessed with the power to see the other worlders, to read and speak their tongue, to fight against them. They are greedy creatures that want land for their own. Their home dimension got crowded more than three-thousand years ago, so they took others. They tried for ours. I forged an army to stop their scouts and prevent them from ever coming here. We fought a war, a war that was never heard of. Not even Celestia knew of the war or the creatures."

"So you saved Equestia?" Royal asked shakingly.

"Yes." Sombra took a deep. "And it looks like it needs saving again." He looked at us. "And you four are its last hope."

"Last hope! Can't we warn the princesses or something?" Bulk panicked a little.

"And what would your princesses say when you told them of other worldly creatures have returned after a war that in the eyes of Equeastria never happened?" The Black King stared right into Bulk's eyes.

"Then what do you prepose we do to stop them?" Royal asked.

"You must get my horn and protect it with your lives. If they get a hold of it they won't be giving it up any time soon."

"And What of you?" Royal said.

"What of me? I'm not stupid. I know you have no desire to free me, nor do I deserve to be free."

"Then how do four mortals stop what took an army to drive back?" There was anger in Royal's voice.

"Then what are you saying? Do you wish to free me? If so, how do you know if I'm trust worthy?"

"And what would you do if we did free you?" Sombra raised an eyebrow to Royal's question. "Would you fight by our side then stab us in the back when it's over?"

"If you all were to free me... I would fight by your side and once it ends, I will surrender myself."

"And why would you do that?"

"There is nothing left in this world for me. All of it died a thousand years ago."

"What about the Empire?"

"The Empire... the empire that I shamed. I have no desire for it anymore. All it is are painful memories." There was sadness in his voice, a sadness I wasn't expecting.

Royal turned to the three of us. "What do you three think?"

We stood there, silently. Then Bulk stepped up, "If it means saving my son and all of Equestria then I'm willing to take the risk!"

"It would make for an interesting book? I'm in! As long as I don't have to bow before him." Daring said. That drew a chuckle out of Sombra. We all looked at him, confused.

"What? Is it illegal for evil to laugh?" He asked.

"No, I suppose not." Royal said.

Then all eyes were on me. I didn't know what to do. "What if the moment we get his horn he turns on us?"

"Then we die. The Royal Sisters defeat Sombra. The creatures war starts and Equestria falls or is too ravaged by war that it is Fallout."

"And I refuse to die without taking the other world with me." Sombra said.

"Then, if it means saving Dinky, I trust him."

=========Sombra=========

Trust me!? They trust me? How? How can one trust somepony like me. The smaller of the two stallions walked over to me and pulled out his sword.

"I'm Royal by the way." He started to introduce the others. "She's Ditzy Do, she the watcher. Her sister Daring, an archeologist and an author. And that's Bulk Biceps, his son was kidnapped by the creatures." He tried used his sword to break the chains.

"They're enchanted. Your sword won't break them." I told him.

"Let me try," the big one said, Bulk was it. He picked up a large crystal and brought it down hard on the chain, nothing happened. "Damn, no dice."

"You four didn't think this far ahead did you?" I asked. Then suddenly a large glob of green goo fell on my face. "Watcher! Look up." I shouted, unable to see.

"There's one here!" She yelled.

With a thud I heard it land in front of me.

"Get ready! Bulk pin it!" Royal yelled. I heard another thud.

"Kill it Royal!" Bulk yelled. Then I heard the sound of a sword going through it's head.

"Oh thank Celestia." Daring said.

"What is that stuff?" Royal said, probably meaning the goo.

"Gak is what my watchers called it. It's their saliva. Acidic to anything with magical enchantments."

"Really?" Royal said as the Gak was removed from my face by Bulk. He placed it on the chain around my ankle. It melted away.

"Interesting! We much keep a sample," the archeologist said. Bulk then put it on my other ankles the the collar.

"Watch the cape," I told him. And with that I was free. The four of them looked ready just in case I made a move. "Well then, the blizzard should of died down by now and I doubt you all know your way back." They shook their heads. "Then I'll lead." I looked up at the hole where they fell through. "Let's see if I can still do this." I turned into a cloud of smoke and flew out, the four of them followed me.