A/N: well, I got bored, so I decided to write another chapter, read and enjoy.
Family is Forever: chapter 8: seeking help
After the train left the train station, they all shut their eyes, and got some sleep, giving the situation they were in, they all had deserved it, especially Applejack.
Soon after the other's, Flame went to sleep as well, to him it only seemed like a few minutes, because next thing he knew, he was awoken by the train engine screaming, and the brakes screech, he lifted his head up, which was rested against Twilight's and looked outside the window, and saw the familiar Canterlot train station.
He groaned as he sat up, and got on his hooves, "all right everypony, were here, time to get up" he said, and all the others opened their eyes, "uh, I felt like I slept for a few minutes, that was fast" Night Gale said, as he got up, they all got on their hooves.
They slowly mad their way off the train, and on to the platform, they looked around, "so, do we get a cab, or what?" Star Dust said, looking up and down the street.
"I think it would be safest, if we walk, it's only a couple of blocks, we'll be fine, let's go" Flame said as he started down the street, the others soon following him.
(Canterlot, residential district)
Just as they thought, they soon found themselves in the residential district of the city; Shining Armor's home was in the upper part of the district, closer to the castle, since he is the captain of the guard.
After walking a couple of more blocks, they found themselves in the upper district of the city, and before they knew it, they stood in front of their destination.
Flame looked at Twilight, and began walking up the steps, it was still deep in the night, and they knew it was unlikely that they were up, but they had no choice.
Flame reached the top of the small stairs, leading up to the front door, he looked at the others, and faced forward, he sighed and reached up his hoof and knocked on the door, they waited for a few minutes, when the door opened, and they saw a pony in a well-designed butler outfit, standing in the doorway.
The butler looked down at them, and was shocked to see the captain's family standing outside, "good evening sir, sorry to disturb you, but is Captain Shining Armor home?" Flame asked, the butler smiled, "master Flame, it's good to see you, yes he is, please do come in, he's in his study with his wife" he said as he led them inside, closing the door behind them.
He led them to the foyer, and turned to them, "please, wait here, I shall go get them, make yourselves at home" he said as he calmly walked down the hall, Flame and all the others, gladly placed their bags on the ground.
(Captain's house, private study)
Shining Armor, and his wife, Princess Cadence, lay on the ground, in front of a blazing fire, both of them wrapped in a blanket.
An open bottle of wine, and two fancy glasses in front of them, "came for another glass, my dear" Shining Armor said with a smile as he levitated the bottle, to his wife's cup and poured some inside, she smiled at him, and levitated the glass to her lips and took a sip, and placed it in front of her.
"Hmm, this really is nice, where did you get this, it's delicious" she said, Shining just chuckled, "being captain, has it's perks" he said pouring himself another glass, she smiled at him, and rested her head against his chest.
"I love this, just us two, finally getting away from work, where we can spend some alone time" she said the last part very slowly, catching her husband's attention.
He looked down at her with a smile, "what are you getting at?" he asked, she lifted her head, and smiled at him, "what do you think, Melody's upstairs asleep, it's just us, here, alone" she said with a seductive smile, Shining smiled at her.
"I think I do, but I'm not complaining" he said with a wide smile, she smiled back and they leaned forward and connected their lips in a passionate kiss, both of them smiling, they continued like that, until they heard a knock on the door.
They stopped their kiss, and looked at the door, they groaned in disappointment, "Yes, come in" Shining Armor said, with annoyance.
The door opened and in walked on of their butler's, he had a calm expression on his face, he took a slight bow, "yes, what is it?" Shining said, as they both got up and turned to face him.
"My apologies for disturbing you sir, but we have some visitors" he said, Shining and Cadence looked at each other with confused looks.
"Who would be visiting at this hour?' he asked, the butler stood up and looked at him, "with all due respect captain, but…it's your sister and your brother-in-law" he said, a shocked look appeared on his face, and he turned to his wife, who shared his shock.
They both put on their robes and headed out the door, in a hurry.
When they came out into the main room, they saw that their butler was indeed correct, there in the room, stood none other than their friends and family, "Shining Armor!" Twilight said happily as she walked up and gave her brother a hug, still partially shocked, Shining Armor hugged back, Twilight let go and turned to Cadence and did the same.
"What are you guys doing here, this late?" he asked as Flame walked up, "what, you're not going to say hello" Flame said with a chuckle, despite the reason there were there, it was still nice to see their family, Flame and Shining Armor shook hooves, and he turned to Cadence and gave her a hug, "Uncle Shining Armor, Aunt Cadence!" Night Gale and Star Dust said happily, as they ran and gave them both a hug.
Shining Armor chuckled, and looked up at flame, "don't get me wrong, were more than happy to see you again, but you could have at least give us a heads up" he said, Flame frowned and looked at the others.
"yeah, about that, were not here just for a visit, we need your help, were in a bit of trouble" Flame said, Shining Armor frowned, "of course, let's go to the study" he said and they all made their way, to the study.
(Captains house, private study)
After they all gathered around, Flame had told the entire story, of what was happening, to say that Shining Armor and Cadence were shocked, was an understatement.
"so your telling me, that Applejack's long lost brother, has come back to seek his revenge on her, and now he's hunting you all down" Shining Armor said, as another butler came in with a tray of tea, Applejack was standing in the corner, looking out the window.
"Yeah that's pretty much it, Dark Star and the others, stayed behind to stall them, but we haven't heard anything from them yet" Flame said taking a sip of his tea.
Shining Armor looked at his wife and sighed, "well, you know we are always here to help, I'll get in touch with Comet tomorrow, and we can go to the Princess with this matter, until then, your all more than welcome to stay here for the night, there's plenty of rooms, we'll leave after breakfast tomorrow" he said with a stern look on his face, the others just looked at each other.
(PonyVille, Sweet Apple Acres barn)
Dark Star awoke to find himself sitting in the barn, he shook himself awake, and looked around, the barn was dimly lit, he looked around the room, until his eyes rested in front of him, he saw his son, tied to the post he didn't seem awake.
"Solar Glaze!" he said as he ran up to him, and checked him, Solar Glaze looked up, "dad, what's going on here, what is this?" he asked, but Dark Star did his best to comfort him, "don't worry it will be okay, just hold on" he said as he tried to untie him, but the knot was to tight, he would need a knife.
Just as he began looking around, the barn doors opened, and in walked four unknown ponies, they began walking up to them; Dark Star took a defensive position, in front of his son.
"You stay back!" he said, they just walked up to him, he tried throwing a punch, but they just grabbed it and punched him in the stomach, hard enough to knock him to the ground, after he fell, they grabbed him, and held him up.
After he shook off the blow, he heard a familiar laugh; he looked up and saw none other than Appleshine walking towards him, with a smile.
"You!" he said as he walked up to him, "where is she, what did you do with Applejack?" he said, trying to break free, but was held back tightly, Shine just walked up to him, "I was about to ask you the same question, tell me where she went, I know you know" he said getting up in his face, Dark Star just stared him down.
"you think I'm going to tell you, you're wasting your time" he said, Shine frowned, and took a step back, he raised his hoof up and smacked Dark Star across the face, almost causing him to fall to the ground again, he was lifted back up, and brought to eye level with Shine.
"I won't ask again" he said, Dark Star just stared into his eyes, hate evident all over, "you already have my answer" he said, Shine just sighed and turned around, "I was hoping it wouldn't come to this, but you leave me no choice" he said as he reached under his cloak, and pulled out a pistol, and aimed it right at Dark Star, at this point Solar Glaze was panicking "dad no!" he cried out, but Dark Star remained strong, for his son's sake.
Dark Star let out a small chuckle, "ha, you think that scares me, I've been interrogated before you know, and they have threatened my life, your no different" he said, Shine just raised the gun up, and brought it down on Dark Star's head, this time he did fall to the floor, a trickle of blood coming from the wound, "pick him up!" he told his soldiers, they did so, and Shine put a hoof under his chin, and lifted his face up, to look into his eyes.
"I'm giving you one last chance, tell me where she went, or I will shoot you, right here right now" he said, with a deadly serious look on his face, Dark Star just stared him down, "forget it" he said, Shine just growled and turned away, and took a deep breath, and much to Dark Star's surprise, he started laughing, he turned around to face him.
"alright then fine, I won't kill you, but tell me something, out of all the times you've been interrogated, have these interrogators ever done something like this!" he said as he pointed the pistol at Dark Star's back hoof and pulled the trigger, causing the same loud bang.
The bullet hit its target, Dark Star screamed in pure agony, as he fell to the floor, clutching his hoof, tears coming from his eyes, Shine walked over, and placed a hoof on the wound and pressed down, causing Dark Star to scream out, having forced to watch, Solar Glaze was in tears, watching his father feel so much pain.
Suddenly, Shine stopped, and turned and looked at Solar, with a sick smile.
He looked back at Dark Star, who was clutching his hoof, and back at Solar, and a sick smile appeared on his face, "maybe, you don't crack, when somepony's threatening you, but what about when they are threatening your family" he said as he loaded another shot, and walked up to Solar, who was struggling greatly.
Dark Star looked up, and saw Shine approaching his son, his eyes widened in fear, "no don't please!" he shouted as he tried crawling to him, but was stopped by the two soldiers behind him, Shine stood next to Solar with a smile, he rose the pistol up and placed it against Solar Glaze's head.
"I'll leave it up to you, tell me now, or I'll shoot your son, the choice is yours, his life is in your hooves, you have ten seconds, 10…9…8" he said, Dark Star looked between him and his son, "dad…" Solar tried saying but was cut off by Shine's counting, "7…6…5…" Dark Star was panicking now, in all honesty he didn't know what to do, finally he made his choice.
"4…3-"he was about to finish when Dark Star cried out, "okay, okay, you wind, I'll tell you, just let him go, please, he's just a colt, please I'm begging you, just let him go, and I'll tell you" Dark Star said with tears in his eyes.
Solar just looked at his father in fear, Shine smiled and removed the pistol from Solar Glaze's head and pointed it towards Dark Star.
"You were saying?" he said, as the guards pulled Dark Star to his hooves, as he cringed in pain, he looked up an sighed, "they…they went to Canterlot, Flame's wife, Twilight, her brother is captain of the royal guard, they have friends in high places, that's all I know, I swear" he said looking up, Shine smiled and lowered the pistol, and holstered it.
"Now, was that so hard, unchain the boy, we have plans to make" he said as he began walking out, the two guards unchained Solar Glaze, and they left, closing the door, behind them.
Solar Glaze got up, an ran to his father, "dad, your hurt…" he was saying but was stopped, "it's okay Solar Glaze, I'm fine, toss me that rag" he said pointing to the rag hanging on the wall, he ran over and brought it to his father, Dark Star put it in his mouth, and ripped, he threw one piece to the ground, and used the other half, and tied it around the bleeding wound, cringing as he tightened it.
"What do we do now, dad?" Solar asked, his dad looked at him, "I don't know, we wait, see if we can find a way to get word to Flame and the others, but for now we wait" he said, Solar just sighed and leaned back against the post.
Dark Star was right; all they could do was wait.
A/N: well that was certainly an interesting chapter, hope you all enjoyed, see you guys next time.
