Chapter 1

Strange Happenings

Neo was on his way to Canterlot Castle on the Friendship Express to spend the weekend with his wife Princess Luna. His friends, the mane 6, Spike and Starlight Glimmer were going to the castle with him and they would be spending the weekend along with Neo. Luna had mentioned to him that he could bring his friends and they were happy to tag along with him.

When they got to the castle, his friends quickly got settled in while Neo went to spend some time with Princess Luna. Celestia went to talk to Twilight about her recent friendship lessons that she had been teaching Starlight and Celestia was pleased to hear that Starlight had been learning so much.

Neo and Luna spent the whole day together doing various things including going to an opera and going to a fancy dinner. Luna even took Neo to meet other royal subjects in other parts of Equestria.

When it was time to raise the moon, Neo and Twilight got to watch Celestia and Luna set the sun and raise the moon. After watching Luna raise the moon, Neo approached her and he gave her a hug, showing how much he loved her magical abilities to raise the moon, and Luna deeply appreciated that.

Neo got to spend a few more hours with Luna before she wanted him to go to sleep. He would always go to bed whenever she asked him to out of respect for her, not just because she's the princess and his wife, but because he loved her very much and he always respected her wishes.

So Neo went to bed while Luna went to attend her nightly duties, but not before saying goodnight to him and kissing his cheek. Twilight and her friends were also in bed, sleeping peacefully.

During the night, Luna's night guards were patrolling the castle hallways and everything appeared to be normal like every other night.

As one of the guards walked down the hall, he thought he saw something standing in the dark. The guard shined a light over to it, but when the light shined in the area where the figure was, the figure was suddenly gone. The guard thought he was just imagining things and he continued to patrol the hallway.

The guard walked down the hallway and he thought he heard something following him. But before the guard could look behind him, something reached out of the dark and grabbed him. The dark figure tried to choke the guard and the guard gasped for air. The guard tried to yell for help, but the figure was choking him too hard for him to shout.

Another guard came up the hallway and saw the guard on the ground choking. The guard shined his light at the choking guard and the dark figure disappeared. The guard came over to the wounded guard and saw he was hurt. The guard immediately went to get help for the wounded guard and to report to Princess Celestia what just happened.

When Princess Celestia was informed about the attack, she sent other guards to do an extensive search of the castle to find this mysterious dark figure who attacked Luna's guard.

End of chapter 1.