The darkness of dusk loomed over Equestria. The sun sets in the west as always, and the town goes to sleep, except for six ponies, and one human. Fluttershy had made Dameon put on the Mare-Do-Well costume. Since it was meant for a Pegasus, it didn't really fit; he also was forced to crawl. Basically Dameon looked like a really deformed horse when in the costume. Fluttershy smiled slightly.
"Don't worry Dameon… I-It looks… somewhat normal."
"I know, I look horrible, but it won't really matter, as long as it's dark enough for no one to notice I'm not a Pegasus." Dameon replied, Fluttershy nodded slightly in reply. She had stuffed the wings with some fluff She had from Rarity to make a stuffed animals with. It looked puffy, but it had to do. The couple walked out of the door of the cottage without a sound, and silently crept their way over to Twilight's library/home. All the lights in the houses and stores/restaurants were off. It was very quiet. Dameon felt that it was too quiet, but he had grown up in a city that never sleeps. He was accustomed to hearing cars fly by at night. But it was much quieter here; he liked the peacefulness of it. He stayed really close to Fluttershy, fearful of anypony seeing him. So much so, that the slightest sound or movement would make him jump, and run/crawl behind something.
"Dameon, I promise that I won't let anything happen. And nothing will happen, just calm down…" Fluttershy cooed. Dameon to a deep breath, but nodded, the rest of their walk went off without any problems.
After a while, they reached Twilight's home. Fluttershy knocked, and Twilight opened the door shortly after.
"Oh hello Fluttershy, hello Dameon." She greeted.
"Greetings, Twilight, were here at dusk like you asked." Fluttershy said with a small smile. Dameon merely raised a hoof/hand. Twilight let the pair of them in. Fluttershy was greeted by all her friends; Dameon was given a hello from everypony. It still felt awkward to even be talking after what had happened. Rainbow seemed to be stifling a snicker from how bad Dameon looked in the Mare-Do-Well costume on all fours. Everypony, especially Fluttershy and Dameon, glared at her. She quickly covered her mouth with a hoof.
"Heh heh… sorry…" She said with a slight blush of embarrassment.
"Anyway, I'm glad you're all here. I've searched through my books, and I found one hidden in the back of the shelf that has information on the Vixeans." Twilight stated, using her magic to lift a dusty old leather-backed book from a table, and over to where they all stood. Once the book was on the floor with a slight thump, all the girls and Dameon sort of huddled around it. Dameon sat Indian style, while the ponies laid on all fours. Twilight used her magic to open the book, and flip through the pages. This book had the title, 'Ancient history, and cultures of Equestria'. Twilight smiled when she found the right page.
"*ahem* The Vixeans were one of the first known sentient beings to ever inhabit Equestria. They lived long before pony kind ever existed. They stand upright, with long snouts. When one looks upon these strange beings, they remind them of the common fox. Except these beings stand bipedal, short ears, and all have amber eyes. Their paws are armed with razor sharp claws, which some beast experts suspect are retractable. Vixeans are covered in a dark brown and white fur coat, with a thin, short tail. The tail is white at the tip, and dark brown for the rest of it. They have the snout of a fox, filled with sharp teeth. Vixeans stood about the height of ponies. So they weren't the largest of creatures. Yet they were stronger, braver, smarter, and more nimble. Vixeans are known to possess advanced magic abilities, teleportation over mass distances, mind reading, and other forms of difficult magic that no known unicorn could really preform. They also have been known to combine their magic into doing large tasks. When combined, they have enough magic to teleport a whole landmass somewhere else, but that required a lot of Vixeans, and would take several years for such a spell to be produced.
The Vixeans were around when Celestia and Luna came to power; this had caused tension with the Vixeans. At first it was fine, 1/3 of Equestria belonged to Celestia and Luna, while 2/3 of Equestria belonged to the Vixeans, considering that the Vixeans had owned Equestria first. Peace seemed like it would last forever, until one king of a Pegasus castle, was tired of only owning part of Equestria. He wanted more, considering his land was on the border of the Vixean kingdom. He also noticed how the Vixean fur was softer than any type of mammal the ponies used for fancy clothes-" *GASP* Fluttershy had suddenly gasped loudly when hearing animals were used for clothes back then. It looked like she was about to cry, so Dameon put an arm around her to try to comfort her. It worked, needless to say. Fluttershy nuzzled him; everypony else cocked their heads, but just tried to shrug it off. Twilight then continued to read.
"Anyway….. The king was known as 'Flash the First'. So he thought of horrid plan to earn more land, and be getting riches at the same time. This plan was known as the 'Pegasus Expansion Act' Or P.E.A for short. He sent in guards to secretly kidnap Vixean infants from their homes. Considering that Vixean adults were much too difficult to sneak up on, or even fight. So the guards kidnapped the Vixean young in the night, this made the Vixean parent believe their children had somehow wandered off, and they all went out looking for them. During this time, many guards came in, burning down the town, and killing any Vixeans still there. When the parents returned home to find there village destroyed, they had no choice but to move on. The remaining Vixeans of that town suspected it was the ponies that did this. They found hoof prints, and several feathers. At that point they knew it was the Pegasus king. The Vixeans then went to their leader, to explain what had happened. The infants the Pegasus guards had kidnapped were killed and… skinned…." Twilight stopped reading for a moment and looked up at everypony. They had horrified and disgusted looks on their faces on how cruel this king was. Even Dameon was disgusted by this knowledge. Twilight took a breath of air, and continued to read.
"The king then was starting to settle in the new land he stole. Elsewhere, when the king heard of what was going on right under his nose, he grew furious, and sent a letter to Celestia and Luna, telling them of what had happened, and if something was not done, he would declare war on the pony race. Celestia and Luna immediately took action. The new and old castles were forced to be taken down. King Flash the First was arrested for life. The taken land was given back to the Vixeans. After several years of recovery, life seemed to be back at peace, but the Vixeans never traded, traveled, or even contacted to the ponies. For forty long years, there was no word from the Vixeans, A twenty story wall was built around the land, with spells that stopped any Pegasus from flying into their lands. Eventually ponies everywhere paid no mind to the Vixeans anymore, considering that they had no contact, or visual of what went on behind those walls.
Eventually, Celestia received a message from the Vixeans. It contain only three words, 'We are leaving.' Which was written in Valsen, The Vixean language, and writing. It was told that Celestia was about to see if she could contact the Vixeans, but on her way to the wall, a sudden explosion happened, and when Celestia reached the area of the wall, there was nothing there. The whole section of Equestria where the Vixeans had lived was gone, as if it was suddenly ripped off of the continent. So only the 1/3 that the ponies lived in was the only part of Equestria left. To this day, nopony knows of what happened to the Vixeans. To most pony folk, they never existed. They seemed to have been suddenly erased from history. When the Vixeans left, it seemed to have taken all knowledge of their race with them. However, there are many rumors of a Vixean city somewhere in Equestria, but nopony knows the exact location, or even know if it exists. A very few wise old ponies, and unicorns still remember some facts of the Vixeans. So I have gathered all knowledge of the Vixeans into this book. This is all we know of them. And we might never know what their religion was like, how they lived, where they came from, and where they have gone off to, I guess it will just be a mystery forever, and maybe it should be kept that way…" Twilight finished. She looked up at everypony, who had stunned looks on their faces. This was a lot of information to take in all at once.
"So, now we know… but the question is, where do we find them? Where do we start?" Twilight asked.