The Two Demands
The friends galloped together, their faces were with worry and fear. Did Colette gallop all the way home? Or did she go to the forest where she would usually go to think or let out her anger? They trotted into the castle and stood still in the middle of the dining room.
"Who wants to call her first?" Duncan asked looking at Hugo and Jordan first then Sven who had a look of concern.
"Colette!" Annabel yelled at the top of her lungs, all of the other friends gave looks of pain then she coughed a little.
"Anna, not so loud, that almost made me deaf…!" Hugo said as he scolded her and she looked down to the floor and apologised.
They heard no response except the birds chirping outside and a few other critters.
"Do you think she's up in her room, she just doesn't want to talk right now?" Elena said in confidence.
"I wonder why she just galloped off like that. She's never done anything like this before." Annamarie said in confusion and worry.
Olga then looked from side to side very quickly with her dark green eyes and had a look of panic.
Colette sat at the lake and stared at her own reflection, her violet coloured eyes were filled with tears. Why did this have to happen to her? Was he there because he knew where she was or did he really just walk into town just to take over the country? She didn't know and that made her even more worried.
"Colette, Colette!" Colette turned to see Elizabeth galloping to her.
The filly then gave her a tight hug and looked at her with worried dark blue eyes. Indeed, just like Sven's eyes.
"Elizabeth, I thought you would be with your father or with Dahlia and Autumn." Colette said in confusion and she scruffed the filly's mane with her hoof.
"Yes I was but I was worried about where you went after you galloped away." Elizabeth said with confidence and smiled at her.
She definitely got that confident personality from her father!
"I'll come home in a little while, right now I just need some time alone." Colette said looking back at her reflection.
Elizabeth nodded then cantered away out of the forest. She kept looking at her reflection until the sky then went red and she saw the jet black pony coming right up behind her, his bright green eyes leering into hers. She quickly looked behind her but she saw nothing and the sky was still blue with a few white clouds. Colette walked out of the forest to Svetlana who was sorting out her gems and jewellery shakily with her magic.
"Hey, Svetlana, how are you doing?" Colette said smiling at the other mare.
"I'm doing alright, it's just after that stranger came by, I'm very afraid now." Svetlana replied as she used her magic to put the bits away into her saddlebag.
"Yeah, yeah, so have I. Well, I have to get home." Colette said as she turned away from Svetlana and walked back to the castle.
"Colette, we were so worried about you!" Annabel squealed with delight, galloped up to her best friend and gave her a tight hug.
"Where were you? Why did you gallop away?" was all they were asking her that she couldn't answer both with the same answer.
"I'll explain it to you like in a few days or so, right now I need to think of a way of explaining it first." Colette replied then she walked away upstairs to her room with her head down in sadness and shame.
As the entire herd of friends looked at each other except Svetlana who was still outside, selling her gems and jewellery, a knock was heard on the door. Duncan walked over to the door and opened it and the jet black pony was at the door. The mares gasped in horror as Hugo looked at him with anger in his face.
"Hello, I just came here to tell you that I'll be giving an announcement tomorrow in town, so be there or answer to my guards." the jet black pony looked behind at his guards who were wearing jet black armour.
Annabel sighed and gave her angry look, Colette peaked from the corner of the wall near the stairs and gave a small sigh of fear and Sven did the same as Annabel. The jet black pony then left.
The next day, Sven, Hugo, Jordan and Magnus and all the mares galloped to where the jet black pony said he would be to make an announcement. Colette was just walking behind them slowly with her head down with Annabel walking by her side.
"What do you think he's going to be announcing about?" Hugo whispered to Jordan.
"I hope it's not changing the laws or anything like that. I also hope it isn't anything to stop me from guarding Coltland or else I will be angry." Jordan said in an angry voice and he gave a frustrated sigh.
"Daddy, Daddy!" two filly voices were heard.
Sven and Magnus turned to see Dahlia and Elizabeth galloping towards them. The two fillies gave them tight hugs.
"I thought you two would be at school by now." Magnus said with a smile.
"Since there is going to be an announcement by that stranger, school is off for today." Dahlia said with a sigh.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't the blank flanks. Where is your friend, Summer?" Emerald, one of the school bullies said as she laughed at them alongside her best friend Moonstone.
"Her name is Autumn!" Elizabeth said in anger and she charged at her but Sven used his magic to stop her.
"Annamarie!" a stallion's voice was heard, calling from a distance.
Annamarie turned around and recognised who it was instantly.
"Ivar!" Annamarie squealed and galloped over to him and gave him a tight hug. "It's good to see you! Why are you here?"
"I just came to visit for a bit until I heard on what is now going on," Ivar replied, scruffing the mare's hair. "I've now decided to stay to also keep guard and possibly fight."
He showed off his wings and they looked really strong. Annamarie hung her mouth in shock.
"Wait there he is!" a few of the ponies in the crowd said along with Valentina.
The jet black pony stood up on the soapbox that he used yesterday when he first arrived while two of the guards stood beside him. Annamarie and Ivar trotted over to where the others were.
"Everypony of Coltland! I hope everypony is here or you know what I said I would do." the jet black pony said as he looked at everypony with his bright green eyes and they were all trembling in fear.
"I wonder what he's going to say…" a mare said to her friend.
"I heard that, guards, take… "care" of her!" the jet black pony pointed to the mare and two guards used their magic to drag her away and she screamed in fear for her daughter.
All the group heard was a door slam and then some screaming and complete silence. Colette started to tremble even more in fear and looked around, Sven, Magnus, Jordan and Hugo looked at the jet black pony in anger and Jordan dug his hoof into the ground a few times.
"Now before I was so rudely interrupted, I wanted to announce that I have two demands that need to be done if you don't want things to get any worse or complicated," the jet black pony continued then he gave a frustrated sigh. "My first demand is that you need to convince your new queen to give her position to me or I will find another way myself."
Colette looked at him with scared eyes and Sven tried to calm her down but she kept shaking constantly.
"My second demand is that I need a lovely mare to keep me company!" the jet black pony shouted and his voice boomed.
He was looking straight at Colette as he said that and Colette knew that she was indeed in possible danger.
