The Return of Dawn Breaker

There it stood before him. Wave upon wave of nostalgia filled the stallions body, from head to hoof.

"Canterlot," he whispered, "how I have missed you."

He continued his trot down the paved streets. A couple of feet away was the entrance to Canterlot. The entrance, however, was not alone. It was guarded by two stallions with gold incrusted armor, each holding a 4 foot-long spear within their hooves. The stallion approached the two guards. He was smiling from ear to ear, but the guards would not have noticed, for his face was covered by the hood of a brown, tattered cloak. The two guard ponies lowered their spears, preventing the newcomer from approaching any further.

"Halt!" one of them commanded, "You may not enter Canterlot without a signed certificate of entry!"

The cloaked pony did not stop his trot. In fact he kept on the same pace before he reached the two guards.

"Halt!" one of them repeated, "If you do not stop, we will be forced to strike you down!"

The cloaked one stopped. He starred deeply at the two guards, as if he were looking, not at them, but through them. Even the guards could not stop the tingling sensation coming from up their own spines.

Finally, the cloaked stallion replied, "I can assure you that I come here strictly on business." He removed his hood. "After all, I did live here once upon a time."

The guards had never seen a pony like him before. He had brandished a horn that was just as tattered and torn as his cloak. He also wore a mask, and in one of its eye sockets, was a ruby that was as red as flames. Upon further expections of this mysterious stallion, the guards had a feeling that he was up to no good.

"Even if you do live here," one of the guards said, "you still need a certificate of entry to enter Canterlot."

This stallion would not take no for an answer.

"Please," he began, "I implore you to reconsider your decision, or else I will have to do something I will regret."

The original feel of fear among the two guards had now become pure rage, and the tingling in their spines were flooded out by the thoughts of their unrelenting anger. They charged the masked colt, spears in hoof, yelling a war cry as they charged. However, the stallion would not be struck down so easily. He quickly and gracefully disarmed the two guards, not as if he were fighting, but as if he were dancing. He also apprehended them as quickly as he disarmed them, throwing the two Canterlot guards to the ground. The stallion hovered over both of the horrified guards. They had been trained for their whole lives to fight off evil and protect the princess, but now, it seems as if all of that training was for nothing. Before they could let out a cry of fear, the colt's front fore hooves came crashing down on their necks, breaking both of them as if they were just a couple of twigs. Blood gurgled from out of both of the former warrior's mouths like a river of red. This did not effect the stallion. Instead, he brushed off his cloak, covered his face again with his hood, and proceeded down his original path. He even began whistling a happy tune.

Canterlot was just as beutiful as he remembered, if not more. He knew he would get some strange looks from the other ponies, but he didn't care. He was too far gone into his memories to ever care about such insignificant life forms such as them. Instead, he found himself singing and laughing down the streets of his old home city. Twirling and dancing as if he were some sort of escaped lunatic. The patrons at a lavish diner could not help to stare out of their windows to watch this newcomer.

"Oh my," one of the patrons began, "the nerve of some ponies! They believe they can just come here and begin dancing around like a mad mare! Someone ought to show him some manners."

The masked stallion did not hear, nor care, about the looks he was getting from everypony around. That is, until he was stopped by an angered commoner.

"Well somepony seems in a good mood this morning," began the posh looking pony. He adjusted his monocle as he began to speak again, "perhaps, you could take your ridiculous dancing somewhere a little more private."

The cloaked colt removed his hood, revealing his masked face to the denizens of Canterlot.

"I am terribly sorry, I just could not control myself! Canterlot is just as lavish as I remember from when I was a child. You should consider yourself lucky to live in a place such as this."

He began to casually trot down the street, trying to keep the pure nostalgia from exploding out of him. During his first few hoof-steps, however, he noticed that everypony in the area was starring at him flack-jawed.

"Oh my goodness, what is that thing!" one of the members of the newly swarmed crowd yelled. Another one yelled as well, "Look at his face, it's hideous!"

The ponies were still flabbergasted by the mask that was being worn by this mysterious newcomer. Though after all of this, the stallion cracked a smile and began to chuckle maniacally.

"Oh come now," He began, "I know I look fabulous, but there is now need to drop your jaws to the ground."

His chuckle quickly escalated to a high pitched cackle. It was clear that this pony was not right in the head, and all the citizens were wondering how he got into Canterlot in the first place. Before one of the on-lookers could call for assistance from one of the guard towers in the area, An army of gold plated ponies landed from the sky with a ruby encrusted carriage. On that carriage, was the Princess of the Night, Luna. All of the residents of Canterlot had never seen Luna in the brightness of the day, and they all couldn't help but stare at the glorious mare in all of her granger. She wore a look of disgust on her face as she stepped from here pedestal. She did not release her gaze from the stallion as she stepped on each step. When Princess Luna reached the ground, she stomped the concrete so hard that the concrete cracked underneath all of the pressure.

"Oh my word," began the cloaked pony as he began towards the illustrious princess. "I must admit, it has been a long time since I last saw you Luna.

"You were only a filly when we last met and now here you are, ruler of the night and its eternal darkness. I am very proud of you!" He was stopped by one of the gold studded guards, who began to speak

"you shall not come any further!" the guard lowered his spear until it was nearly a couple of inches away from his masked face. "Nopony gets near the Princess under any circumstances!"

"I can assure you that I am here to only say 'Hello' to a couple of friends of mine, Princess Luna being one of those friends." Replied the masked one as he backed away willingly from the sharpened steel blade of the spear.

Everypony was in awe at the arrogance being provided by this cloaked lunatic. Nopony ever adressed to Princess Luna in such manner, for she was royalty. One of the guards began to speak, but he was no ordinary guard pony. He was the captain of the Royal Guard himself, Shining Armour. He had been called to duty by Princess Celestia herself and he was not going to let her down now.

Princess Celestia had also given him a scroll, which inside held the accusation towards the Cloaked one. Shining Armour pulled the scroll from his saddle bag, cleared his throat, and began to read.

"You are under arrest for the act of treason against the ruler of Equestria, Princess Celestia. I, as Captain of the Guard, will escort you to the Canterlot Capital immediatly so that you may recieve a proper trial."

After reading the scroll, the masked pony burst out into laughter, "HA HA HA, Princess Celestia wrote that loud of garbage to try and intimidate me, didn't she? Does she not know who she is trifling with?"

He stopped his laughter as quickly as he began it. Silence filled the streets of Canterlot, the first time in decades. It was an awkward silence and one could cut the tension with a knife.

The masked one was the one to brake the silence, "Fine, I will give you the honer of escorting me to Canterlot Castle," he grinned a sickening grin, "After all, it would not hurt to see my old friend Celestia after all of these years."

There the three ponies stood, staring at the twin doors of Canterlot Castle. However, the masked pony's stare was more of a gaze.

"Wow, you ponies really spruced up the place didn't you?"

"Silence, you are under arrest by the Princess of Equestria herself and you will behave as such!" yelled Shining Armour at his prisoner.

Shining Armour was not one for being so mean, but in the case provided for him, he had no other choice. Before the masked one was able to come up with a witty rebutle, the doors to the castle opened, revealing the intricate design of the lovely castle. Everything seemed as if they were made of marble. From the columns that held the castle steady, to the floor panels that graced the walk-way. The prisoner was in awe of the amazing grandure of the castle.

"Unbelievable," he said "I knew you ponies changed the scenery of this old dump, but I didn't know you did a complete remodling of the place!"

Shining Armour was agitated by the acts of his prisoner. The same place that once represented peace and harmony, was now being looked at as if it were some amusement park.

"Silence, prisoner!" yelled Shining Armour.

The prisoner did not comply to his capturer's orders, instead he replied with, "Oh please, call me Dawn Breaker. In fact, just call me Dawn. I seem to like that name alot better."

Shining Armour was about to smash his hoof upside the head of his prisoner. I can't beleive the arrogance of this guy! he thought, he is trotting around here as if he were staying in a motel or something! Shining Armour's train of thought was lost, however, as he noticed Luna lagging behind the rest of the group. She hadn't talked all day, and now it just seemed as if something was bothering her.

"Are you okay princess?" He asked, trying to confirm his original thoughts.

"Of course I am," she snapped at the captain, "why would I not be?"

Shining Armour was puzzled by this strange behavior coming from the princess. Ever since her ascent back to power, she had always been so level-headed.She was not one to just snap at ponies for no explainable reason.

They had reached the throne room a couple of minutes after the incident with Luna. The doors leading to the room were just as beatiful as the ones that lead to the castle. Shining Armour opened the door to the room, a blaze of light caming ripping through the door as if it had been trapped inside of it. After the room became visible from the flash of light, the two Alicorn Princesses sat on thrones. One was Princess Cadence and the other was the ruler of Equestria herself, Princess Celestia. Alongside the two Alicorns, was a little filly with a pink coat and and a blue mane. The little filly was also wearing a dress that was encrusted with rubies and emeralds.

Shining Armour bowed towards the three ponies, a sign of respect. Instead of bowing, however, Dawn waved one hoof in the air and began to speak, "Hello Celestia! Long time no see!"

Celestia was disgusted at the utter disrespect that was on display before her. Shining Armour too, was disgusted. Celestia began to speak, but not in reply to the scum before her.

"Cadence and Shining Armour. I would truly appreciate it if you took your daughter out of here. Me and Princess Luna would like to speak with this one alone."

Shining Armour nodded and began beckoning towards the little pony that was seated next to her mother. "Come on now Kiki. Aunt Cellie has to take care of some royal duties."

Kiki accepted the beckoning hoof of her father, holding it with a hoof of her own.

"We should get out of here to, sweetheart. We have to leave Celestia to her business with the prisoner." Shining Armour continued.

Cadence also accepted the offer being provided to her by her husband. She rose from her throne and began marching out the door alongside her husband and daughter.

The door slammed shut behind the prisoner, leaving no way for escape. However, Dawn did not show any signs of wanting to escape. Instead, he sat there and began chuckling.

"Why have you returned!" asked Celestia impatiently.

Dawn kept chuckling as he replied, "So you do remember after all. I must admit that I am flattered that you haven't forgoten about me after all of these years."

Celestia stomped a hoof on the ground and began to speak again.

"I thought me and Luna banished you forever!"

"Seems to me that you tend to do that alot." replied Dawn Breaker smugly, "but you must remember what mother always told us. Even forever doesn't last forever."

Celestia was now even more frustrated by this horrific display of disobediance.

"Luna!" she yelled, "get the guards to take this heathen out of my sight!"

Luna did not respond. Her head was slumped down low, and her beutifully flowing man now slumped over her face, making the situation even more worrying.

"Luna, are you alright?"

Luna began to slowly look up at her sister, revealing her face from the array of her blue mane that once covered her muzzle. Celestia was shocked to see what was behind her fabulouse mane. Luna seemed to have lost all emotion from her face, revealing a horribly inanimate expression of nothingness. Luna's eyes too, had changed to a red, blazing coler. The same coler as the eye on Dawn Breakers mask. Before Celestia could ask if her sister was alright, Luna lunged at Celestia with enough force to break through stone walls. In a feeble attempt to protect herself, Celestia had locked horns with the person she loves most.

"Luna, why are you doing this!" asked Celestia as tears started rolling down her cheeks.

In the background, a horrible laugh was heard.

"HA HA HA! My plan is coming into fruition at last!" The horrible screeching laughter continued from this insane pony. "Equestria will finally witness the dawning of a new era, and you, my dear sister, will not be there to witness it!"