The silence was deafening as everyone in the study stared with blank looks as they tried to process what had been said. Thunder's mind completely shut down, this was too much for her to take in. Her whole life she lived thinking she was alone, that she had no family, at least blood family. The King had taken her in and adopted her as his own, he was the only family she had ever known. Before the King had found her had been a nightmare that had long since been forgotten, but before that she had no recollection of a sister, let alone a family.
The blue seraph crashed to the floor, breaking the silence with the ruckus she made trying to right herself before taking off and flying like an arrow till she was face to face with the white horned seraph.
"Uh, Celestia, are you sure that potion that we got slipped hasn't messed with your head? I don't have a sister!" Her outburst made the purple horned seraph jaw go slack, the orange woman stepped forward and reached up, grabbing ahold of her tail and giving her a hard yank, forcing her to her feet.
"Now Rainbow Dash! Have some respect," she scolded the blue seraph, officially called Rainbow Dash, her voice held a heavy accent with a sort of thick twang to it, "We've all been through a lot, but ya just don't go talkin' to the princess like that."
"I hate to say this, but I agree with Rainbow Dash, Princess Celestia, I don't understand. There is no record of Rainbow Dash having a sister, at least none that I have found when I was looking the genealogy of everypony in Ponyville." The purple horned seraph looked up at the Princess in confusion.
"Well, Rainbow Dash, Twilight, there wouldn't be any record or memory of a sister, because we removed and blocked all record and memories of her after the attack on Cloudsdale." This only gained more confused looks around the room. She just smiled warmly and closed her eyes, her brows scrunched together as if she was focusing on something. Her horn suddenly began to glow with a golden aura. A beam of light shot forward and landed on the wall opposite of her and making a window-like shape of light formed with moving pictures. When she began to speak, her voice rang with wisdom and knowledge, it filled the room in a regal town.
"Many years ago you all remember when my sister, Princess Luna, turned into Nightmare Moon and was banished to the moon for 1000 years, until the Summer Sun Celebration when she returned and thanks to Twilight and her friends they used to Elements of Harmony to restore Nightmare Moon to her former self as Princess Luna." The group nodded, except for Thunder and Thoran, "In the time of her absence the Threstals remained at Canterlot waiting for her return. Some did not agree with this and turned rogue, although we tried out best to stop them many managed to escape to the Everfree Forest.
Rainbow Dash was young when her sister was born and from birth she was a very special little filly. Thunder was born not only with Pegasus wings, but with a unicorn horn as well." She paused to allow this to sink in.
"She was the first ever born alicorn in recorded history, aside myself and Luna, and when the rogue Threstals heard of this announcement, they began to plan to steal her from Cloudsdale and raise her among their ranks and make her their new Princess. Using her as their key to releasing Nightmare Moon to rule over Equestria in eternal night.
When we had heard word of their plans I immediately had her powers bound, hiding her horn and her magic. We had information dropping into their ranks that she had died. Unfortunately this only outraged them and they attacked Cloudsdale with the purpose of making the Pegasi pay for the death of their only key." She began to look sad as the scenes showed the evidence to back her story began to turn dark as a battle unfolded. Thunder watched in horror as many Pegasi; stallions, mares, and foals alike, were slaughtered in cold blood by the Rogues.
"I and the royal guards fought as hard as we could, but with little avail. Even though we managed to stomp out the rogue forces, we had lost Thunder in the process. I could sense that magic had been used, but could not find the source of it." Thunder watched fixated on the window as more scenes unfolded. "We search every inch of Equestria, but with no results. The Everfree Forest had been scoured even, but you were nowhere to be found. After a couple of years the search was ended, with the only conclusion that you had died during the battle and was just unaccounted for amidst the deceased." The window closed and the light faded, Thunder turned to look at the princess. Even though it explains so much, it was still so confusing. "The Pegasi elders came to me hoping to rid Cloudsdale of the misery that had befallen it, so much sorrow had filled everyponies hearts that they couldn't seem to find joy in much of anything. They asked if I could take away the memories of those who had been lost and the attack that had erupted in their sky city. Instead of taking them away I simply blocked them and replaced them with happy memories. Those who had been lost were merely stored away deep in subconscious mind of everypony living in Cloudsdale. I can undo that magic and allow you to remember who you are once again as well as for you Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy." She waited patiently for a reply from them, the yellow seraph squeaked when her name had been spoke.
The yellow seraph, called Fluttershy, shakily stood from her hiding place and looked at the Lord of Chaos as if guidance on choosing the right answer. He nodded and she tentatively walked, more like shuffled, to where Rainbow was standing. She took Rainbow's hand and she squeezed hers in return and gave her confident smile. They needed to know the truth to what had happened.
They looked at each other, searching for an unspoken answer from the other, Rainbow could feel it in her heart that there was a connection to her. Something deep in her mind was trying to reach out. Thunder could feel it too, she walked tentatively towards to blue seraph till she was just arms reach away. She looked back at Thoran, who merely nodded as if he felt this was right as well. She looked back at Rainbow Dash, who no longer looked cocky and brave, but just as she scared as she was. She reached out, extending her hand out to Rainbow. Time seemed to come to a standstill as she waited for Rainbow to reach out and touch her hand. Rainbow reached out tentatively, balking at first, before touching her finger tips to Thunder's. Her hand slid up until she was grasping fully, suddenly with a flash of light everything seemed to fall away as they were surrounded with scenes from a past they neither one remembered.
Images danced in front of their minds eyes, tears streamed down their faces as they felt so many emotions that bombarded them all at once. They could hear screaming of so many ponies, feel the powerful wing beats as they flew in erratic patterns trying to dodge and fight off the enemies. Blood permeated the air, staining the pristine white clouds that formed the beautiful city in the sky. Screams rang out all around, bodies began to litter the floor of the city and many were thrown over the edge of the clouds to plummet to their deaths, their wings having been ripped off by the rogues.
[i]Rainbow looked fervently for her baby sister and her parents, she couldn't find anyone in the chaos that had erupted during the Pegasus games. She could hear so many foals screaming in terror and other screaming in pain, she could barely see there was so much blood raining everywhere. She was blinded by a bright light, when she could see again she saw the great Alicorn princess! She stood in shock as she watch her shoot beams of magic at the enemies that were destroying their city.
Fluttershy looked out from her home as she watched in terror as the ponies she had grown up knowing were slaughtered mercilessly. She couldn't move from where she was standing, she was hidden from the bad ponies but she couldn't close her eyes until a Pegasus had been thrown into the wall of her home. She ducked down and hid under a table, her face tucked behind her long mane. She tried to block the noise of the battle, but every scream of pain echoed through her, shaking her to her very core. She didn't know where her parents were, she couldn't move even if she wanted to, she was rooted to that spot. She quivered with fear with squeaked with every loud cash and every scream that erupted through the air. She couldn't believe that something this terrible was happening in Cloudsdale, nothing ever bad happened here. 'Oh where is Rainbow Dash? Where is Mom? Where is Dad?' she screamed in her head. She needed to get out there and find them, but Mom and Dad to stay here and to not leave the house unless they came for me. She tried to peek out from behind her curtain of pink, but every time she would get close there would be another crash or another scream and she would duck behind it even further. Her fear had her rooted to that spot under the table and she couldn't move.
Thunder cowered in a small hole in some clouds, she watched in frozen terror as one of the pegasi was ripped apart by five bat-like pegasi. Her body just shook, she could make her legs work and her wings weren't strong enough yet to carry her anywhere. Tears filled her eyes as she cried out for her mother, when the bad ponies were finished hurting that other Pegasus she ran out into terror searching for her mother. Suddenly something fell from the sky, it was another Pegasus and she was hurt too, like the other one. Red stuff was coming from her throat and sprayed all over Thunder's dark grey coat, it got in her eyes and blinded her momentarily. She cried even harder as she tried to wipe it off with her hooves, it was warm and sticky, it matted into her mane as the wind blew in her face. Her tears helped to get it out of her eyes, only she didn't want to see what was in front of her. It was one of the bad ponies, he sneered at her with an evil smile that made her freeze in place. Her legs shook so badly that she could barely stand, she couldn't even scream as she watched red stuff drip from his gaping maw. His teeth weren't like other ponies, they were pointy and she could see bits of dark stuff in them. There were even feathers in the corner of his mouth. He chuckled at her as he circled around her, like a scary monster, he snorted at her making her jump and squeal in fear. As she watched him circle her, she could see a big stick poking out underneath him. He rubbed his nose over her, sniffing her mane and then he rubbed his nose against her flank.
Suddenly there was a burst of pain from the back of her neck and she was airborne before she could even squeal in fear. She could feel his hot breath on her as he carried her away from her home, she tried to squirm out of his sharp teeth only to cause more pain and he chuckled even more. Her vision started to get dark as he flew farther away, that's when she heard it. Her daddy's voice, she squealed for him as he called out her name. The big scary bad pony suddenly jerked to one side, she looked in the direction to see her daddy above the bad pony, trying to reach her. She reached out her hooves to him, each time the bad pony pulled her out of reach. Finally he let go of her as her daddy crashed into him again, she screamed loudly as she fell through the night sky. There was a burst of light and she could see a strange face, not anything like a pony's face. She smiled at her softly, her mane was black as night with white flowers in it, her fur was a light brown and her eyes were a bright blue like the sky during the daytime.
"You are going to be safe Thunder Storm, I promise," it was soft and kind and full of love, like her mommy's voice. It was the very last thing she heard before she fell asleep and when she woke up, she was in some strange place. She didn't even look like a pony anymore, even though she still had her wings and her fur, but she couldn't walk right anymore. As she stumbled through the big new place that she was at, she wondered what all this gold stuff was. It smelled really good and the green stuff tasted pretty good too, she smiled as she tried to figure out this new place.
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They suddenly gasped as they crashed to the floor in a heap, Thoran raced to Thunder's side, his strong hands were on her shoulders. She cried out as her mind struggled to allow all this new information flood its gates. She shook with fear as the memories of the attack were still fresh in her mind. She couldn't understand and yet it all made perfect sense, she was truly a Pegasus and her sister was Rainbow Dash. She grew up in a sky city called Cloudsdale in a country called Equestria and she had met some lady that had tan skin and black hair with white flowers in that was her savior from that fateful night. The same lady she had seen in the fire the night before, when she was gazing into the flames in the fireplace. When she took a ragged breath and tried to get her thoughts together she looked over at Rainbow Dash and a familiar sense of love washed over her as she laid eyes on her long lost sister.
Rainbow Dash was crying as well, it was just too much for her to process, she had seen so much death and destruction. Ponies she had known, that were her friends, murdered without mercy or even a second thought. She couldn't believe that something like that could've happened in Cloudsdale and for it to have cost her a life without knowing her sister, caused more pain and yet joy was over running her as well knowing that she had her sister back. She clutched at Fluttershy who was baring her face in Rainbow's shoulder, crying and shaking in such fear and what she had just seen. Discord had come over and wrapped his lion's paw around her shoulders for support, she just continued to cry and why wouldn't she? They had all just seen something so horrible that it made them all sick and yet knowing that Rainbow had been reunited with a sister she had lost so long ago filled them joy.
"I can't believe," hiccup, "that I have a sister," sob, "that I never knew I had," sob, "and now," hiccup, "I found you!" Rainbow Dash sobbed loudly, Fluttershy continued to sob into Rainbow's shoulder, muttering incoherently in between sobs. All Thunder could do was cry and shake as Thoran tried to comfort her. Knowing now what happened in her past and how she came to this world has shook her to her very core, everything has changed now. She now has a sister and has so much to learn about a past that she didn't even knew she had.
Princess Celestia waited until the girls had gained control of themselves; Discord hovered over Fluttershy, but let her cling to Rainbow Dash. Thoran kept a hold of Thunder until she shrugged him off and regained her authoritative stance once more. She looked more ragged and her eyes were red and puffy from crying.
"You said that I was the first born Alicorn, what does that mean?" Thunder's voice still shaky from her earlier experience, but with an inquisitive ring to it.
"It means you are very powerful, I'm not sure of the true meaning but I'm sure that what ever the fates have in store for you is going to be full of greatness, that I am sure of." She looked at Thunder knowingly, her eyes fill of knowledge, wisdom and pride. She practically glowed with happiness.
"What is Alicorn magic? Is it the same as a mage or sorcerer?" Thunder understood what an Alicorn was, but what was the magic and what was she going to be capable of? Her biggest fear was that she was going to hurt someone, mainly Thoran.
"No, Alicorn magic is one of the five kinds of magic known to us in Equestria," She smiled at Thunder, "Alicorn is the peacekeeper of the universe, we draw our magic from the universe itself and that energy is incomprehensible and is the reason as to why we are as powerful as we are. When something grows too powerful and upsets the balance in the universe, we step in and restore balance. With that power comes great responsibility, we must maintain the balance within ourselves or risk catastrophic effects when we allow..." the blue Alicorn stepped forward placing a hand on the white one's shoulder.
"That is what happened to me long ago, when I let jealousy and darkness over run my heart. I became Nightmare Moon due to my ignorance, losing the balance within myself." Her voice was soft and sad as she spoke of what had happened to herself. "I was foolish then to think that I could take over Equestria and make it into eternal night." She looked at Thunder solemnly, tears brimmed her eyes as she thought back to the travesty that she had caused.
"If I am an Alicorn like you, then why do I not have a horn?" Thunder kept up the inquisition, she needed answers and she needed them now.
"Your magic was bound inside of you by a powerful spell that can only be broken when you are ready to take on the duties and can control the magic that makes up an Alicorn. With that your horn was taken and will return when you break the spell, I wanted to make sure that you were completely protected from the Threstals and others that wanted to do you harm.," her eyes grew sad as she looked around the study and catch sight of the maps and other war plans that laid scattered on the large table, "I see that now it was foolish of me to do so, I can see you need your magic more than ever."
"No it wasn't foolish of you," her authoritative tone caught Celestia by surprise, "you only done what you thought was the right at the time and it was. In order to keep me safe you had to bind my magic, if you hadn't the Threstals would have succeeded in their plan and Equestria would've been lost." She smiled warmly at Celestia, something Thunder didn't do very often these days.
"Now that we have our memory back I guess an introduction is due for the rest of the group. I am Thunder Storm, Captain of the King's Guard, Commander of Prince Thoran's armies and recently discovered Rainbow Dash's sister." There was a warmth spreading through her with the knowledge of having a sister and now a family.
There was a slight pause as everyone decided who would go first, Celestia stepped up to the challenge and started them all off.
"I am Princess Celestia, one of the Celestial Sisters and a ruling princess of Equestria. My duty is to raise and lower the sun as well as protect my people during the day." She nudged the blue Alicorn forward; who stood there for a minute and ruffled her wings together, looking like a nervous school girl and not a royal princess.
"I am Princess Luna, the other Celestial Sister and a ruling princess of Equestria. My duty is to raise and lower the moon and protect my people during the night, I walk among dreams and offer advice to those in need of it." She seemed to gain confidence as she spoke, yet there was something that was inherently bothering her. Thunder made a mental note of her behavior and made certain to look into to after they finished introductions. The purple Alicorn stepped up next, she needed nervous and yet confident in herself as she cleared her throat and posed herself like a scholar.
"I am Princess Twilight Sparkle, I am the Princess of Friendship and the founder of the magic of friendship. I represent the Magic, which is one of six Elements of Harmony." She moved closer to Celestia and all the confidence that she had before speaking seemed to have disappeared. She looked back to the other women and motioned for one of them to come forward, Rainbow Dash stepped up to the challenge. Her smile beaming with confidence as she flew to the front of the room and landed gracefully in front of Thunder.
"I am Rainbow Dash, long lost sister and the fastest flier in Equestria. I am the up and coming captain of the Wonderbolts and I represent the element of Loyalty." She puffed up her chest and put her hands on her hips, she reminded Thunder of a strutting rooster in a barnyard. Suddenly Rainbow deflated and a look of sadness washed over her, "Well I was going to be the up and coming captain of the Wonderbolts." Her wings even drooped as she to a couple of shuffling steps backwards till she was standing next to Twilight. The pink woman bounced up and it seemed as though her hair had gotten even curlier and bigger.
"I'm Pinkie Pie and I'm The Super-Duper Party Pony and I am the element of Laughter! I am so excited that you are Rainbow Dash's sister, I mean I know Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash are like sisters, but you ARE her sister. At first I was sad that Rainbow didn't remember you and you didn't remember her, then Princess Celestia did her magic spell and now you remember and then to find out that you're not a Pegasus, but an Alicorn. I mean really this is so exciting and that means we have to throw a PARTY! Please let me throw a party for you! Please, please, please, PLEASE!" She bounced up and down in front of Thunder, she never stopped moving the entire time she introduced herself. Thunder just stood there in complete shock as she watched this woman bounce in front of her, she didn't know what to think.
"Pinkie Pie, simmer down now. The princess can't handle this right now," The orange woman stepped up and grabbed Pinkie Pie's arm, stopping her bouncing motion, "Ah am sorry about that princess, she can be a bit much at times." She watched as Pinkie's hair deflated and she stuck out her bottom lip and made it quiver and tears even brimmed her eyes and she made her eyes look bigger as she looked up and Thunder.
"Um I'm not a princess, just Captain will do," Thunder didn't know why she was calling her princess, "Pinkie Pie, I don't mind if you want to throw a celebration, but it will have to wait a while. Now is just not a good time to hold a celebration." This seemed to satisfy her and she resumed her happy self, her hair gained volume again and she was smiling from ear to ear and she skipped back over to her seat.
"Well ah guess it's mah turn, ain't it? Ah am Applejack and ah represent the element of Honesty, ah work the family orchard, called Sweet Apple Acres, where ya can find the best dog gone apples in all of Equestria." She beamed in pride as she spoke of her family business.
The white unicorn stepped up and cleared her throat, she had a lady like stature to her as she stood in front of Thunder, the young drake stood behind her.
"I am Rarity, I represent the element of Generosity and I have my own boutique, called the Carousel Boutique where I design and make clothes for the ponies of Ponyville. I have designed and created dresses for several nobles, even Princess Twilight and Princess Cadance." She obviously took pride in how she looks and in the clothes that she designs based on how she keeps trying to fix her hair. She nudged the drake to step up next.
"Um I'm Spike, I am the assistant to Princess Twilight Sparkle." His voice was short and clipped, his eyes shifted around the room watching everyone carefully. Particularly Thoran , he stayed close to Rarity as well.
"I'm going to assume that you are bonded with Rarity? Or for better terms, her special somepony?" Thunder smiled as his eyes grew wide, as did Rarity's. He just kept opening and closing his mouth trying to muster up some form of literary speech. Rarity just gaped at her as if she had just revealed some dark secret, it took her a while to regain her composure, she cleared her throat many times and stuttered quite a bit before forming a complete sentence.
"I-I-I-I do-don't know wh-wh-what you're talking about? Spike and I are just friends, nothing more to it than that." A dark red flush was spreading across her white face. Rainbow Dash began to burst with laughter and Applejack slapped a hand on Spike's shoulder.
"Now come on there, Spike, we all knew you guys were buck buddies and with all the sneakin' and hidin' y'all do it's hard to hide that from everypony. Beside what did ya think we'd think of ya for bein each other's special someponies?" Applejack smiled at them both as they turned to her, staring at her as if she was holding something forbidden.
"Applejack, wh-why I-I never, h-how could you..." She stammered on until she fell silent. Luna stepped forward at that moment.
"Rarity you've been having dreams about Spike for a long time, as was Spike, Twilight knew about your relationship long ago. There are no secrets among us princesses." She grinned mischievously at the girls.
"Alright, before we get off track, let's finish introducing ourselves and then we can gossip." Celestia brought everyone back to the main purpose of the conversation as it were. The Lord of Chaos stepped forward, bringing Fluttershy with him, she had returned to clutching him when Rainbow left her side. She was such a timid thing, Thunder worried if she'd be alright being surrounded by war. Thoran growled softly as the Lord of Chaos approached Thunder.
"I am Discord, the Lord of Chaos, I [i]am[/i] reformed thanks to these lovely ladies and especially my dear friend, Fluttershy, for if it weren't for them I wouldn't be the person I am today." He glared at Thoran as he spoke before he looked down at Fluttershy, whom he nudge to introduce herself next.
"Um, I'm Fluttershy and I represent the element of Kindness. Um I take care of the woodland creatures of Ponyville." She squeaked the rest of her introduction out and then tried to hide her face behind a curtain of her light pink hair.
Thunder smiled at her and now that they had finished introductions she could now get to the bottom this, if they are from Equestria then why were they here in Alcadia? Something wasn't adding up, there must be a reason for them being here.
"Now I understand that you've had a long night as it is, if the princesses would stay here, the rest of you will be escorted to your assigned chambers for the night. I bid you are a good evening and I hope you can get some rest, for tomorrow will be a busy and hard day for us all." She gave the others leave and two guards came in to escort them to their chambers, there were plenty to go around and she knew there were more than enough in the west wing next to the library. "Guards, take them to the west wing, I'm sure they'd like to get some rest before tomorrow." The guards nodded and turned to escort them to their chambers. Thoran growled again as Discord walked past him, Discord looked over at him and stuck his tongue out at him before turning away with Fluttershy. Thunder caught Thoran before he could pounce on Discord again, "Leave him be, he is with them and if they trust him then so should we. I promise you they are no threat and if Princess Celestia trusts him, then he has mine. Leave your anger and what ever ill thoughts you have towards him out of this or it will make this harder on everyone involved." He gazed at her long, before he sighed and gave in. He knew she was right and he was going to have to accept it.
Thunder sighed as they moved to stand around the large table that was in the center of the study, Celestia used her magic to light the lamps and candles that lay scattered around the table. As they took their places, Thunder prepared herself for whatever they were about to reveal to her or if she could get them to speak of what happened to them before they came to Alcadia. She looked at each princess, searching their eyes and faces for any hint to the answers that she wanted.
"I apologize if these questions will seem to be too painful for you to answer, but in order to help you get back to Equestria I'm going to need information. I want you all to be okay with tell me, us, what happened before you found yourselves in our castle." She looked to each of them before moving on. Each princess nodded in agreement to her, each willing to answer any question or reveal any information.
"We will tell you anything you need to know, but be warned not all of this information will be good and it will be hard for us to speak of it." Celestia looked at Thunder, almost pleading her to not ask. Thunder nodded at her, even if it hurt they still had to know.
"Do you know who was it who sent you here?" Thunder watched each of them, keeping a hard eye on them all.
"We don't know of his name, he was a pony like I had never seen before. He had fangs and not just sharpened teeth like Nightmare Moon, but long canines like a wolf. He had a black coat and his cutie mark," She shuddered, "Was blood dripping from a pair of fangs. I have never seen anything like that before, never has there been a cutie mark like that in our history." Celestia shuddered again as she remembered what the person looked like.
"I had seen him once before, in the land that was in a parallel state to that of Equestria. Where Canterlot High is, I seen him one night at Sugar Cube Corner and he was with a girl. He was tall with pale skin and his hair was jet black. His eyes though," Twilight shuddered and grimaced as she remembered him, "His eyes were blood red and he wore a pendant. I'm not sure what the pendant looked like, sorry I wish I could be of more help." She shivered as if a cold wind had brushed her fur.
Thoran walked away from the table and was searching through some papers on the desk, Thunder turned to see what he was searching for when he pulled out a portrait. She gasped when she seen it, it couldn't be him.
"Is this the man that you seen, Twilight?" He placed the portrait on the table. Twilight reached for it and when she lifted it so she could see it in the light her face drained of color, she gasped and dropped the portrait. When Celestia and Luna seen it as well they had similar reactions.
"Those eyes, it has to be the same pony. Who is he and why did he want to take us to his King?" Luna's voice shook with fear, tears brimmed her eyes as she spoke.
Thoran sighed as Luna confirmd their worst fears, Thunder shuddered at the thought. She had faced him once before in battle and he was a monster. She looked to Twilight hoping she would disprove Luna's accussations, but the fear in her eyes told Thunder otherwise. Twilight trembled with fear as she continued to stare at the portrait, even Celestia took a fearful step back.
"This," Thoran paused searching for a word, "man is Narishka Vladamir and he is a vampire who is skilled in the dark magics." Thoran's voice was grim as he spoke of this monster, Thunder shuddered at the very sound of his name. "He is very powerful and he is in allegiance with Lord Morell, the self proclaimed next King of Alcadia." The three princesses looked at Thoran in shock and then Twilight's face filled with anger.
"How could someone so eviul be King?" She spat in anger.
"He is no king, nor will he ever be! I will fight until my last breath to destroy Morell if it's the last thing that I do!" Thunder slammed her fist down on the table, knocking several of the candles over and spilling wax over the portrait. The princesses looked at her in shock, Thoran just placed a comforting hand on her should. Her anger subsided as she regained her composure and cleared her throat. "I apologize for my outburst. Morell has ruined my father's once beautiful kingdom. My father was the greatest king that Alcadia had ever seen and Thoran will be the perfect successor, if we can defeat Morell." Her tone was determined, yet with a grim ring to it.
There was a silent pause as her outburst and last thoughts sank in, she watched as the princesses all thought about what she had said. Twilight seemed to be lost in thought the most and her concentration was broken when Celestia stepped forward and cleared her throat to gather everyone's attention.
"Has all options been searched through? Is war the only one available to you? There could be other ways that won't lead to so much innocent blood shed and darkness." Celestia asked timidly, unsure of her question. She flinched when Thunder turned her heated gaze onto her, Thoran's jaw had dropped in shock at Celestia's question.
"Other options?" Thunder asked in a deadly quiet voice, a cold and harsh edge to it sliced through the air. "Other options? He murdered almost half of our council of elders, destroyed the kingdom and has slaughtered thousands of innocent people! There are no other options!" Thunder's voice quickly grew in volume till she was practically screaming at Celestia. Her blood began to boil with rage at the thought of even trying to spare that monster his life, "There are no peaceful options with Morell, the elders even seen the darkness in his heart, when dealing with Morell it's life or death." Thunder paused as she took in a deep breath and tried to rein in her rage, "Good or evil will prevail in this war and we must fight for good or the kingdom will fall into darkness, as will all other worlds that Vladamir can access with his dark magics. We have to defeat Morell and end him or he will end everything and every one else." She ended with grim thoughts, a shiver ran down her spine as she imagined a world where Morell did become king.
"What she means to say is we have tried peaceful action with Lord Morell," Thoran tried to remain calm and proper even though his blood boiled underneath the surface. Thunder scoffed at him as she stepped away and towards the window needing some fresh air. "Each time he would send back the heads of our messengers, one was sent back with Thunder as she barely made it out of his fortress alive. She suffered major injuries from being tortured, thankfully no permanent damage had become of her wings." She glanced over her shoulder and reached over her shoulder to touch the tip of the scar that stretched from her right shoulder to her left hip and went perfectly between her wings, she shuddered again as she thought back to the night she barely was able to glide back to Thoran carrying the head of the soldier they had lost. "Since then it has been strictly war and battles with Morell, he has made it quite clear that he wishes us and the other resistance dead and we refuse to go down without a fight."
"I understand, I didn't mean to cause any pain or anything at my suggestion. I was just hoping that maybe I could've helped with the war, I too have experienced chaos such as this when King Sombra was in power over the Crystal Empire." Celestia looked grim as she thought back to those dark days.
"Maybe we could be of help to you Prince Thoran!" Twilight practically jumped forward with her idea. "You have the Elements of Harmony here at your disposal to help you win your war." She smiled softly at Thoran, hoping to offer any kind of help that she could.
"Are you sure about this Twilight?" Celestia looked like a concerned mother as she looked on at her.
"Twilight I understand your need to offer assistance to those in need, but maybe we shouldn't get involved. This isn't Equestria and things may not work the same, especially with using the Elements of Harmony. Even our Alicorn magic may not work the same, we know nothing of this world." Luna finally spoke up, she too had concern for Twilight. Thunder understood, she didn't want them to get involved in their war unless it came down to that.
"Well the way that I see it, we are going to be here a while aren't we? Why not help in every way that we can?" Twilight looked at the other two princesses earnestly, "I want to help and I know the others will want to as well." she turned to look at Thoran and Thunder, who had returned to the table, "I know this is not our war, but if we can help as much as we can maybe you could help us get home." She looked hopeful at them. Thunder thought about it hard, they would definitely be a helpful asset with their magic. They could use their powers to their advantage, but that's what she was worried about the most that they would be taking advantage of the them. She was also worried about what the soldier would think having three Alicorns, a Unicorn, two Pegasi, and two Earth ponies among their ranks; though she didn't think it would affect them much, they'd probably be grateful for the help.
"It's a deal." Everyone suddenly looked at Thunder, shock covered most of their faces except for Twilight, a smile quickly spread across her face at the thought of helping. "I don't see the problem and we could use all the help we could get, but be sure you are al strong enough to battle and tomorrow we can start by getting you fitted with armor and clothing as well, because at this rate those shirts won't make it much longer." She smirked at the fabric on Celestia and Luna began to rip at the V in the neck, their busts straining against the linen. A dark flush spread across their cheeks, making Thunder chuckle slightly, know her shirt was in similar condition.
"I'm certain you are all quite exhausted and I'd like to finish with getting the rest of your story from you," Thunder hated to bring the mood down, but they had to know what all happened before they found their way at Thoran's castle. They all seem to draw back into themselves, though the sadness seem radiate off of them. "Tell me what happened with Vladamir, what did he do?"