"Tia won't talk to me, she's been locked up in her room for days. She's been so secretive lately." Luna said with a worried look on her face. "She rises the sun in the morning but that's it. Other that that she's no where to be seen. Now with all this going on, there is nothing we can do." A single tear fell from her eye. I gave her a hug, and she hugged me back. "My friends and I are trying to stop it. We just don't know what it is yet. We've looked through all the books, but nothing like this has ever been recorded."
She looked shocked. "Tia told me this has happened once before." I looked at her with a shocked look on my face. "After you raise the moon, would you mind coming to the house right there and telling that story? My friends should hear this too." She nodded. "I'll be there in 13 minutes." I bowed and flew back into the house. "Flare! Pathy! Lumen!" I screamed. "Princess Luna is coming to the house!" Flare and Pathy came running out of the room. "Really? Why?" They said in shock. "She said something like this has happened before, she wants to fill us in." I said. So we swept up as nice as we could. We made it look presentable.
Then we looked outside and watched the moon rise. Almost immediately she showed up at the door. We all bowed as she entered and then she sat on the couch. We offered her some water and an apple. Then we all sat down to listen to her tale. "Long ago, when i was first sent to the moon. Celestia told me that something terrible happened. All the ponies in Equestria turned into blood thirst zombies. They ate each other. The only select few that were saved was everyone in Canterlot. Since Canterlot has a shield Protecting it from curses. The rest of the ponies were left to die. Celestia couldn't find any living when she went to go save them. She only stopped at two places. Ponyville and Manehatten. Obviously there were living ponies, because there are so many ponies here today."
She looked at Lumen and smiled. "Well hello Lumen, nice to see you again. You're father is doing an excellent job by the way." He smiled "Thank you Princess." She looked at all of us. "We have plenty of rooms in the castle. If you four are really trying to help, you are welcome to stay with us, we have a huge library, and all of our food is clean." We all nodded in agreement. We grabbed the books and all of Pathy's maps, and headed off to the castle. We flew right behind Luna, Pathy was on Flare's back. Lumen was flying right next to me. After awhile we landed at the castle, all the guards looked at us.
One of them came down, he looked older, grumpy, and very stern. "Son!" He exclaimed as he ran to give Lumen a hug. They hugged and tears ran down their faces. "Hey dad." Lumen smiled so big, it made me happy to see him like that. "I thought you were dead, son. What are you doing here? Who are you're friends? He nodded towards us. "We are here to help cure this. Princess Luna told us we could stay here to be safe. We are going to try and stop this." He smiled at me, and pointed. "To answer your second question that is Crimson Sonata, that over there is Flare Rocker, and the unicorn on his back is Path Finder." His fathers eyes burst with excitement, he came over and shook my hoof immediately. "Hello there!" Then he did the same thing to both Flare and Pathy.
Realization came over his face. "Princess Luna, we only have two rooms left. Princess Celestia told us to find healthy ponies and bring them in." He said. Princess Luna looked at us. "You will have to go two to a room. I'm very sorry for this inconvenience." Flare smiled. "I call Pathy!" Pathy immediately blushed. I looked over to Lumen and I blushed too. "Very well then." Luna said. "Guard, please take them to the rooms." With that we were off. We got two rooms next to each other. Flare and Pathy went to the left, and Lumen and I went to the right. I unhooked my saddle bag and put it on the floor. There was only one bed. There was also a little living space, kind of like a hotel room. I ran to the shower and took a nice long hot one. It felt amazing.
I walked out into the room and Lumen was sitting on the couch watching T.V. I sat next to him. "You do know why Flare wanted to be with Pathy right?" As if by magic I heard exactly the reason why. "Oh Flare! Oh Flare!" Pathy was moaning. "Oh buck yea!" He screamed. I blushed really bad. "How long do you think they will go?" I asked. "No clue." He replied. We laughed about it for a good minute and then we both watched T.V. It was the movie. It was "The NoteScroll" Ew, romance. We really got into the movie though. I ended up cuddling up to him. He had is hoof around me. I looked up to see him looking at me. We both looked away and I blushed. I think I'm really starting to like him.. a lot.
"Crimson can we talk?" He asked me, very softly. I sat up and looked at him. "Yes?" He looked kind of shy, and upset. "Well you see, I really like you a lot. I mean a lot, but I've been hiding a secret from you." I started hurting, like my heart was breaking. I was trying not to cry. "Well you see, my dad thought it would be a good idea if.. He arranged my marriage. I was always mean, I picked on everyone. So he thought just so I would have a wife one day, he would arrange a marriage. I have a fiance. She lives in Canterlot. I'm surprised he hasn't introduced me yet." I felt heart broken, i felt tears start to form in my eyes, but i held them back. "Then i met you Crimson, and my god i was blown away." I got up and ran to the bathroom. I locked the door behind me and started crying. "Crimson, I'm sorry." He sat outside the door and i heard him start to cry. "Crimson, please come out."
I unlocked the door and stepped out. He hugged me and I hugged him back. I pulled away and looked him in the eyes. We started to get close again, I shut my eyes and he shut his. "Lumen! Come on! Wake up! We have to get started!" Flare screamed from outside the door. He pulled away again to look at the clock, sure enough it was 6:30 am. Yet again, I missed my chance to kiss him too. We walked outside to see Flare and Pathy. "Whoa you guys looked tired as hell!" Flare said. "Did you guys get any sleep?" He nudged Lumen. "Wink wink." Lumen pushed Flare away. "The whole castle knows you two didn't either." They both blushed brightly. We walked down the stairs to the main dinning room. Breakfast was spread out across the table. We ate like kings that morning.
