Celestia knew what she had to do... She had ignored her sister too long and stood up on the throne without her. Granted her life had been hectic since Luna's return, what with the detah threats and the constant cries of "burn the witch!" from some of the less subtle people she heard voicing their opinions...
But Luna was Family, she deserved better, she even now wasn't allowed to move the moon. Not because Celestia didn't trust her...never again could she make that mistake, she though sadly.
No, she kept the moon from her sister because she didn't think she was strong enough to handle it, she had just returned from an excruciating 1000 years in utter loneliness. The only friend she even had at this moment was that maid of hers, Selene was her name?
They had hit it off rather well...maybe too well.
Celestia stopped in the middle of the hallway, mind so active you could almost see an icorporeal trail of steam out of the mare's ears. Yes, thats a strange mare alright... she thought sourly...
She shrugged the feeling off howeverr and started trotting to her sister's room.
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Luna's room was occupied by two mares at the time, the Goddess of the moon an Selene.
"Deae Lunae..." whispered Selene as she stared at her depressed friend. All she seemed to do was mope all day. She needed her power back, But equestria didn't need her it seemed.
Luna hadn't appeared to have heard Selene however as she kept staring straight ahead, out onto the gently fading sunset as the beautific day fell into death throes, releasing the most startingly amazing colors one could find on this earth. But perhaps that was also what made Luna's nights so special. The word otherworldly could truly apply to the beauty of the stars, for they were not made of to be easilly viewed by anybody.
Nay, they were a special set of beauties for only those with enough brain to look toward the sky and ponder. To gaze into the unknown and know that whatever happens one thing is constant, that said pony had a place in this life.
Selene's was a complicated one...
But a job was a job... she thought as she crept closer to her friend.
Luna sensed her friend walking closer to her and expected it was for them to sit together. Until she felt a damp rag around her muzzle... chloroform!
Luna's thoughts went hazy as the drug did it's work, the world around her growing dim and fuzzy as she fainted.
Selene's job was done, pulling off her outfit the enchantments surrounding it came off as well. And Selene real mark was revealed. A rather macabre picture of a ornate butterfly knife, blade still damp. Her specialty was wetwork, and she knew this was just another mission, one from a really rich pony at that!
But she felt...dirty doing this, she was her friend after all... But bits pay for her food and she needed the money so...
it was with a heavy heart that the pony formerly known as Selene hefted the drugged princess into a bag. Now however she needed to forge herself anew, and become Philistine, her one true calling.
hefting the bag over her shoulder and into a laundry cart she had placed out of the way for a quick escape she strode out the door, her plan slowly creeping towards perfection.
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When no response was heard the Solar Alicorn knocked again, still no response. And it was time to raise the moon too! She wanted luna to do it today... She knew it would mean a lot to her sister, but she was nowhere to be found.
Steeling herself for an impending royal shout she busted in the door, her frame proving to be a worthwhile battering ram. As she recovered from the quick scrapes she got from he act she took in the room. her sister was never one for being orderly but this was disasterous, and there was a cloth smelling vaguely of chloroform laying on the rug in fron of the balcony, still damp with the liquid.
Chills settled into the Princesses body as she realized what happened. Could Selene be Philistine?
No...oh...oh god...no...she can't be! No way! But gazing around for evidence that the maid was still around proved fruitless. The room was scattered only with the remains of various notes and such Luna had written. She looked closer at one that lay on Luna's bed, noticing it was not written by Luna but rather by her maid...
"I've taken Luna you silly silly mare, don't worry she'll soon be out of your hair!
I've taken her captive and away from you! Too bad you never gave her her due! Maybe if you had she wouldn't've been my friend, and maybe then shed've avoided the lions den!
Hugs and kisses from you friend Philistine!"
The letter mockingly said. However a few seconds after the letter was read the first splash of salty tears fell down, making the hoofwriting illegible and runny.
"Oh...Oh sister! What have i done!" Screeched the Solar mare as she broke down into gret wreching sobs on the floor.
Meanwhile over in a secluded area of the world the Lunar mare awoke. only to find her body restrained by ropes and her magic restricted by a Loop of wrought silver around her horn. The room she awoke in was quite dark, and smelled strongly of disinfectant and the copper smell of blood.
She heard a faint scraping sound as if something was being drug across a stone, and she saw from the corner of the room a few sparks falling from what she guessed was a whetstone.
It certainly would explain the scraping and the sparks.
As she shifted her weight around the old creaky chair she was strapped to made a small squeal of protest, and the sound stopped. She heard a slow clopping of hooves as the pony behind the sound drew closer.
It was Selene!
"Oh thank god selene i was worried for a minute! I mean c'mon anybody would be if they woke up like this, and the whetstone didn't help matters! Ooh good! i see you have a knife, can you cut me loose then?" Luna rapidly said, still a tiny bit nervous as to why she was here.
The talking stopped howeve as "selene" raised her throat with a hoof and presser the knife against the taunt skin, drawling a thin trail of blood down the goddesses neck.
"I never was on your side!" Sneered Selene. "And my name is philistine!" She screamed, pressing the dagger foward a little, eliciting another crimson trail.
That shut Luna up, if only for a moment.
"But why do you want me dead...?" Asked Luna
Philistine sneered at this. "Don't take it personally you're below my contempt, a traitor who betrayed her sister and almost killed everpony? PShhhh, you are worthless! Plus i'm being payed handsomely, we can't all whore the governments money over fine dinners can we?" Asked the deranged mare harshly.
"But don't worry, im giving you a sporting chance! I gave your sister a small hint to where you are, but she won't come. She hates you, took away your power, and more or less hid you from the public eye! So yes, you have a chance, but the death wait for nopony, i give her two days to find you. Staring now, she clopped her whooves and a light lit up in thje corner with the whetstone, revealing a clock counting down from two days.
Tick tock goes the clock, those words haunted the Soolar princess as they repeated in her head.
"Tick Tock goes the clock" said Blueblood in his abode, watching the countdown.
"Tick tock goes the clock" agreed the pony next to him, his dagger like teeth set into a grin. "May the odds forever be in your favor... Luna!"
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And this arc or whatever you call it is starting to climax, if you guys are still following this i guess expect an update within the week, i'll try to make it a bit longer of a chapter.
Till then adieu~