A/N: hello my friends! Yes I know it's rather short, but I am back with my latest, the next installment in the alicorn trilogy, or maybe even series, thank you all for the support with the last story, now I hope you all enjoy the second.

Rise of the Alicorn's: chapter 1: baltimare

(Baltimare, market place)

Baltimare, one of the oldest cities in the kingdom, aside from Canterlot, a city bustling with shops and fancy restaurants, the day was full of its usual activities, ponies went back and forth to work, and the market place was no exception.

As usual at this particular time of the day, it was crowded, traders from all over the kingdom and beyond, came here to trade and buy supplies, while the owners kept their items in check, and kept note of their purchases and sales, but little did they all know, that today was going to take a particular interesting turn.

The train whistled loudly as it pulled fully into the station, and all the passengers on board made their way to the platform as those waiting to get on, eagerly boarded, but no one paid notice to the six suspicious ponies making their way to the platform, they looked around and smiled at the bustling city before them, "wow, it's been a while since I came here to Baltimare, seems more crowded" said a young orange coated mare with a southern accent, as she waved her hat, trying to cool herself off.

"Indeed, and the heat is so intense, how do they stand it?" said another young mare with a pure white coat, and purple mane, as she wiped her forehead, "yeah, remind me what we're doing here again, and why did Twilight have to stay behind?" said an impatient rainbow-maned Pegasus, as she floated above them all, they all turned and watched as the slightly taller one, removed his hood and turned to them and sighed.

"I told you before, were here on a mission from the Princess, there's been a sighting here of a young female alicorn, we need to get to her before anypony else, normally I would go with Twilight, but she's taking care of things back at the castle, let's find and then we can go back home" the male alicorn said as he looked up into the sky, the rainbow mare crossed her hooves and scoffed.

"okay, how are we going to find her, this place is insanely crowded, she could easily blend in" she said gesturing to all the ponies around them, Rising Star scoffed and turned to them, "trust me, I'll know, alicorn's have a special ability, we can sense when other alicorn's are near, just keep an eye out, let's go" he said as he turned and walked away, the others just looked at each other and shrugged.

A few minutes had passed as they made their way into the busy market place, all of them keeping an alert eye out, as they came to the point where the district broke off in different directions they came to the middle and stopped after Rising Star raised his hoof, "what? Do you see anything?" Fluttershy asked, he silenced them and breathed in, as his horn started to glow, he looked around, as he moved from place to place, something caught his eye, a suspicious young female pony, wearing a cloak with the hood drawn up, moved through the crowd.

Even though he couldn't see her face, he could tell she was about his age, his eyes widened when she stopped and looked in his direction, he could see that she was looking for something, his body tensed when her eyes rested on him, there was no denying it, she was staring right at him, a few seconds passed, as her eyes widened and she broke into a run in the other direction, Rising Star's horn stopped glowing, "damn, come on quickly!" he said as he took off, the other did the same as the simply followed his direction.

Unfortunately, the crowd was heaviest at this time, and they had trouble trying to push through the crowds to get to her, but she seemed much quicker than them, and they quickly made their way in front of a few shops, where they looked around, but saw no sign of her, "damn it!" Rising Star said to himself, as the other arrived and looked around.

(Meanwhile…)

After losing her pursuer's in the crowd of ponies, the young mare ducked into and alley, and leaned up against the wall, her heart beating against her chest, but she turned and peaked out of the alley, they were nowhere in sight, she gave a sigh of relief as she slowly turned and made her way down the alley, but right as she fully turned around, she cried out in surprise as she bumped into two larger stallion, she fell to the ground and looked up, "well, well, look what we have here, a lost mare" said one of the stallions with a chuckle.

The young mare slowly pushed herself up, "oh sorry about that, I'm just a little confused, excuse me" she said trying to move past them, but they just blocked her path, "oh no, I don't think you're going anywhere" said the other stallion with an evil grin, now the mare slowly began to panic, "please, I was just being chased, I didn't mean it" she said trying again but the other one grabbed her and pushed her against the wall, she cried out in fear and tried to fight back, but they were too strong for her.

"Got some fight in this one, I like that, such a shame really, but were under orders to kill any alicorn's we see" he said as the other one moved her cloak to the side, revealing a pair of majestic wings, the first one looked up at her and smiled, "and it looks like your out of luck" he said as he reached under his cloak and pulled out a knife, the young mare gasped as her eyes filled with fear.

But just before he could take it our fully, they heard a voice ring out, "hey you two, get away from her!" the voice shouted, and they all turned to see six other ponies standing at the entrance to the alley, the two stallions turned to him, "get lost pal, this doesn't concern you" he said as they turned back to the mare, Rising Star took a step closer and removed his hood, "two bigger stallion overpowering a defenseless mare, this does concern me" he said as he took a step forward, they turned to say something but were shocked when they saw who it was, "it's him! Rising Star, you're the one that killed Bloodmane" they said, Rising Star smiled, "indeed I am, now let her go" he said with a frown, the two stallions dropped the mare, and she huddled against the wall.

The two stallions approached Rising Star, and the other five got into fighting positions, but Rising Star raised a hoof, "no…I'll take care of them" he said as he walked forward, fortunately for him, he had spent the last few months training in physical combat, and became very good.

As they approached one of the assailants charged forward, and trust the knife, Rising Star smiled and moved to the side, the stallion flew past him shocked, and Rising Star punched him in the face, knocking him against the wall, the second stallion charged him from behind, Rising Star merely balanced on his front hooves, and bucked him in the chest, knocking him against the wall in a daze, he quickly turned to the other stallion who was running at him, Rising Star simply levitated a nearby trash can, and smashed it into his face instantly knocking him out.

He turned around again and saw, the second one shaking the blow off, Rising Star walked up to him, simply grabbed his head and slammed him hard enough against the wall to knock him out, after finishing up he turned to the girls and smiled, "barely broke a sweat" he said as they turned and saw the cowering mare, they slowly walked up to her, "it's okay, were not going to hurt you, were here to help, my name's Rising Star, we've been sent by Princess celestia to find you" he said extending his hoof out in a kindly manner.

The young mare looked from his hoof to the others; she reluctantly reached for his hoof and allowed him to lift her up, she brushed off her cloak and turned to him, "thank you…if you hadn't shown up, I don't even want to think about what might have happened" she said visibly shaking, Rising Star smiled stepped back giving her some space, "why did you run, we meant no harm?" he asked, she blushed slightly out of embarrassment, "I…I thought you were with them, I apologize for that" she said with a smile, Rising Star smiled back, "okay, I have two questions" he said waiting, she simply nodded and he cleared her throat.

"Firstly, are you truly an alicorn?" he asked as he always did, when they found new alicorn's, it was a way to make sure it wasn't a trick, she simply nodded and moved her cloak out of the way, and extended her wings out, the others looked on with shocked faces, Rising Star simply smiled, "good, and secondly, what's your name?" he asked in a kind tone, she smiled at him, she felt she could trust this stallion, "my…my name is Emerald" she said with a blush, Rising Star smiled, "well, it's a pleasure to meet you Emerald, these are my friends, if you be so kind as to come with us, I'm sure you have many questions" he said turning to the others, Emerald watched as they went, looking at the unconscious stallions, she quickly ran after them, and joined them as they returned to the train station, and boarded the next train to canterlot.

A/N: well there you have it, that's all I have for now, hope you enjoyed, because as always, it gets more interesting later on, peace out.