hey everyone! i worked really hard to make sure this chapter had as few typos as possible! c: im going to talk to my english teacher on monday for some tips, he asked me to write a short essay for him so he can help me with my writing problems, so hopfully it will get better soon! if i get the chance there might also be a second chapter of this out tomorrow but i have to rest my typing hands for a awhile haha! anyway enjoy! :D OH SHIT OOPS OH FOCK NO

chapter 4: celestia's soliloquy

"huh, what?" princess celestia gasped, waking up on her throne. it was the middle of the night.. had she fallen asleep there again?

"hrmph" she said, scooting herself off the throne and walking out of the throne room, tushy cold. she nodded to her royal guards as she left the room to hit the hay and go to bed.

ceelestia always poured herself a glass of fermented hay before bed. they say that a glass of fermented hay every day is good for your health, but that you also shouldn't drive after drinking it. it also makes you drowsy and sometimes feel a little fnny, but it also gets better with age, sort of like sex. at least that's what my grandma tells me, and grandmas never lie.

so celestia went into the kitchen and opened her fermented hay cabinet. she took out a bottle of marelot, circa 1929, and poured a glass for herself in her favorite my little pony plastic mug, with a print of all the mane six on it. after putting away the bottle she used her magic to carry the wine glass into her room, where she sat in bed and turned on her soap operas which she recorded on her dvr. right after she started up the next episode of days of our lives, however, princess luna, her half sister, entered her room.

"oh, celestia!" she said, surprised. "i didn't know you were in bed! uh... so, who's in your study?"

"what? what are you tsalking about, luna?" celestia asked, pausing her stories. "i haven't been to my study since this morning, after which i had meetings in the throne room for the rest of the day."

"... what?!" luna jumped. "but, but you were there to send twilight sparkle and her friends off to ravenwood!"

"RAVENWOOD?!" celestia gasped, startled. slowly gaining control of her panic attack, she got up. "i'm going to my study, i mustn't be disturbed"

"why? what are you doing?!" luna asked.

"it's nothing, luna, just... go to bed, i'll see you in the morning."

"but-"

celestia narrowed her eyes. "oh, luna? just WHAT were you going to do in my room, anyhow?"

luna started shaking and sweating. she looked around, nervously. "uh, okay, i'll go to my room... g-goodnight, sister!" she said, and bolted out of there and into her own room.

with luna tucked in, celestia galloped to her study. there, at her desk, was exactly what she expected: her cardboard cutout of herself.

"you!" celestia snapped, galloping over to the cutout, picking it up in her hooves nad shaking it. "i told you never to mention ravenwood to her! why hav you disobeyed me?!"

"it had to" said a familiar voice in the doorway. celstia looked up. it was discord.

"YOU enchanted my cardboard cutout to send twilight to ravenwood, didn't you!" celestia accused.

"no, not this time, princess." discord said, walking in. ever since princess luna married him, he'd been living at the castle, where he had a solid roof over his head and warm food in his tummy. he did get the former torture chamber now basement all to himself, though, so he got to do all his crazy chaos stuff down there, away from the more culturred folk. celestia wasn;t entirely happy about him living there, but she shared the castle with luna and just had to deal with it. "while you were napping in the throne room, malistaire drake showed up to crash twilight's coronation. your cutout had no choice but to send her to combat the threat."

celestia looked terrified. "did... she tell her everything?"

"no," discord said, "but if the filly's in ravenwood, it's only a matter of tiem before she learns the whole story, you know that."

"you're right..." celestia sighed, falling into her desk chair. dsicord sat across from her. "i tried to protect her from this..."

"you did your best. kids grow up and learn these things on their own. maybe itll be a good thing that she finds out."

"maybe..." celestia said, sadly. "que sera sera"

meanwhile, twilight sparkle, rariry, pinkie pie, fluttershy, and applejack had just reached triton avenue. i was raining and cold, but the mares had thick coats so they weren't bothered, except rarity, who is of the arabian horse breed and had a thinner coat best suited for warmer climates, so applejack gave her her hat to wear to keep her warm. pinkie and fluttershy looked at each other, confused. did they like each other?

twilight led the charge down the sidewalk, and said "huh it seems pretty calm around here, ambrose must not know what he's talking about-" she said, accidentally stepping off the sidealk and a hideous corpse burst out of the road and surprised her! it had three toes on each foot, and carried a shovel!

"EEAK!" rarity screamed and hid behind applejack. "KEEP I AWAY FROM ME!"

"HUURRRRRRHHH" groganed the corpse. suddenly, twilight and all her friends were pulled into a dueling circle in the middle of the street!

"what kind of witchcraft is this?!" fluttershy said scared,

"it's a dueling circle, which is how we use magic round these parts" said twilight educatedly.

"oh ok" said fluttershy and angrily cast seraph at the rotting fodder.

"bla bla bla!" said lady oriel before smacking the rotting foodder with her sword.

"uh, twilight, how'dya know that?" asked applejack.

twilight opened her mouth, but closed it in shock. "i... don't know."

the rotting fodder cast thunder snake at fluttershy to get back at her but it didn't hurt much, so she cast triage to heal back the little bit she lost. rarity cast ice beetle and applejack cast fire elf, pinkie passed because she needed pips.

"i'll save you pinkie!" twilight assured and cast power play. next round, everyone got a power pip, which was especially helpful for fluttershy because she'd spent all her pips on seraph (triage doesn't cost any pips).

"oh boy!" pinkie pie said happily, and cast cyclops. the cyclops appeared in the middle of the dueling circle, carrying a hammer, looking scary as heck.

"AAAAAAAHHHH!" it grunted, flexing its muscles in front of the ritting fodder, who looked like he was thinking oh this is so not good. the cyclops threw its hammer back, flashing the rotting fodder with the image of what was under his skirt, a truly horrifying sight, cyclops penis, not something you want to see before you eat. yet there it was, in the darkness. staring into the rotting fodder's soul.

the cyclops brought his hammer down on the rotting fodder and smushed him, thus winning the fight for the mares, but when he brought his hammer down he was lifted into the air a bit and flashed the mares too, but they all covered their eyes (except innocent fluttershy, who didn't react in time) the dueling circle faded away and the mares ran to the sidewalk to avoid getting into another fight. just then a little message bubbled on twilight's nanocom.

"oh, you are in a monster infested area, stay on the sidewalks so you dont get caught" said proff greyrose.

"gee, thanks ya old bag, that would've been helpful ten minutes ago!"twilight snapped.

"twi, look!" said applejack, pointing to a mysterious figure running down the sidewalk further down the road. he or she was wearing a cloak and no one could see just who or what this figure was.

the mares followed it down to the end of the street, where it was gone. however, before them was a cave mouth, covered in iron bars, a few of which had been cut and bent outwards to allow entry.

"this don't look good, twi," applejack said honestly. "whatever that thing was mustve known we were watchin', and wanted us to follow it into that cave. it might be dangerous... are you sure you want to go in?"

twilight sparkle thought a moment. "yes, we have to. this person wants to show us something so badly? best not keep our host waiting." she said, and trotted defiantly inside, and all her friends followed.

the cave was spooky inside, like a haunted house, but only if it wasn't just a house, but a small VILLAGE. there was an entire town in here, probably once homes to many, now falling apart and empty. there was a haunting feeling in the air, and in the street, where several more rotting fodders and weird living scarecrows roamed.

"wow, this place is spooooky," said pinkie pie.

"yeah," applejack said, looking around.

the mares walked a little further down the street, and noticed a tower at the end, before another mouth to the cave with a waterfall running through.

"whoever that person was must be waiting in there," surmised twilight.

"oh? and just how do you know that, smart ass?" rarity asked.

"because important npcs and items are always in towers," said twilight, "have you ever played this game?!"

rarity wasnt sure how to respond so she didn't. twilight was getting scarier and scarier with each passing second.

END OF CHAPTER FOUR~