A/N: like I said before, I'm back, everybody enjoy.
Return of the Shadow League: chapter 2: midnight assault
It had been over three months, since the attack on canterlot, from the assassins guild, and progress went very smoothly, the princess's had been busy all day, going over the final repairs of the town, the castle itself was the first to be fully rebuilt, to its former glory.
Princess Celestia, found herself walking down, the hall that led to the library, when she opened it, with her magic, she came in and saw her younger sister, calmly reading a book, on recent equestrian history, with a large stack of books close by, she had just finished raising the moon, and went immediately back to her reading.
"I think you have done enough reading for the night Luna" she said walking up to her younger sister, Luna smiled and put the book down, "yes, well I need to catch up, I'm still a thousand years behind, it will take some time to finish" she said turning her attention back to her book.
"There isn't much to know" Celestia said, trying to convince her sister, but she didn't take it, "are you kidding, you did many great things" her sister replied back, still not turning her attention away from the book.
Celestia was about to speak, but was cut off by a loud rumbling sound, that shook the library, and the large chandelier, above them, began to fade on and off "what was that?" Luna asked, finally putting the book down, and standing up, and walking up to her sister.
"I don't know, but it can't be good" she said in a worried tone, another quake shook the library, nearly knocking the royal sisters off their hooves, this was followed by another, they began to sound much closer, much to their fear.
Suddenly the shacking stopped, and the large room fell silent, the books had fallen off of the shelves, due to the shaking, after another few moments of silence, Luna was about to speak, when the door, suddenly flew open, and one of the royal guards came crashing to the ground in front of them, his armor was full of scratch and burn marks, he had cuts all over his body, followed by many bruises, he had been severely injured, by something, or somepony.
He raised his head, and looked up at the princess's, who had completely shocked expressions, "guard, what is going on out there, and what happened to you?" Celestia asked him, he looked her in the eyes, "your highness…run, go get out of here before it's too late" he said in a weak voice, Luna was about to ask what he meant, but he fell down and his body went limp, they could tell he was dead.
They turned their attention back to the door, as it flew open again, multiple masked ponies came, rushing in, all armed with crossbows, they took a spot and pointed them at the princess's, but they did not fire, "what is the meaning of this!" Celestia demanded in a raised voice.
They refused to answer, so she was about to ask again, but was cut off, by a new pony, much taller than the others, walking in, followed by another shorter one. "Well, Celestia and Luna, it's been a long time, so good to see you again" he said as he stopped in front of the armed ponies.
"Who are you?" Celestia asked, getting in a defensive position, "you mean you don't remember me, that's hurtful, let's try this, think back, way back, to the great war" he said with a smile on his face, Celestia didn't understand, what he meant, but something about this Alicorn, seemed very familiar, and not in the good way.
Suddenly her eyes widened, in sheer terror, "no…no, it can't be" she said backing up, "oh but it is, you thought, after you stopped me, that I would remain in prisoned forever, just look at how Discord escaped, you knew this day was coming, and you did nothing to prepare for it" he said his smile disappeared completely from his face.
Suddenly they heard, shouting from the other side of the room, and the door flew open, revealing none other than Shining Armor, followed quickly by a hoof full of ponies, and Princess Cadence, "your highness!" he said as he got in front of her, in a defensive position, this amused Shadow, who just broke out in laughter.
"well, you must be the famous, Shining Armor, the best captain of the royal guard in equestrian history" he said in a mocking tone, this only made him angrier, "who are you, what do you want" he asked the towering figure, "oh it's really quite simple, I am here for my revenge, and to take what is rightfully mine, the throne" he said turning his attention, back to the princess's, who still had fear filled eyes.
Shining Armor, made a critical mistake, as he pulled out a crossbow, and shot off the arrow, loaded on it, straight at Shadow Blaze, he smiled and held up his hoof, the arrow struck his hoof, but reflected, off and hit the nearby wall, surprising him, Shadow just smiled.
"come now, I expected better from you" he said, now really angry, Shining Armor unsheathed his knife, and charged head first at him, Shadow, remained completely calm, as Shining Armor, jumped into the air, Shadow raised his hoof, and brought it hard, across his face, knocking Shining Armor, a good five feet away, he crashed to the ground with a heavy thud.
"Shining Armor! No!" Princess Cadence cried as she ran to her husband's side, Celestia looked on In fear, she turned to face Shadow, with an angry glare, she closed her eyes, and her horn glowed, it let off a bright flash, one that blinded Shadow Blaze and his soldiers, with them distracted, she turned and ran to Shining Armor.
Shining Armor, had managed to get up, just in time to see the princess's coming towards him, "are you okay?" she asked with concern, "don't worry about me your highness, I'm fine" he said getting support from his wife.
"Shining Armor, listen close, you need to go, take Cadence, and leave" she said looking down at him, "what, no…I swore an oath to protect you" he said refusing, to leave her, "listen, he's too strong, for you, but we can hold him off, and give you a chance, go to ponyVille, find your sister, they are the only ones who can help us now, I will contact you soon" she said getting up, Shining Armor, understood, and got up, he grabbed his wife's hoof, and told the squad to fall back, Celestia turned to her sister, and nodded, Luna, understanding what she meant, turned and walked back to the fight.
Shadow Blaze, had still been distracted by, the flash, finally regained focus, after it dimmed, revealing Celestia and Luna, shadow laughed at their bravery, "how noble of you, to send them away, when they can't hide forever, do you really think you can beat me" he said challenging them.
"no, but we will do what we can" Celestia said, as she took off in the air, and used her magic, the tip of her horn glowed, as it shot out a powerful blast of magic, it was heading straight for Shadow, who remained unusually calm, he smiled as it hit him, creating a small black cloud, from the impact.
For a moment Celestia, actually believed, she defeated him, but she knew he ever gave up that easily, out of nowhere, he flew up in the air, higher than Celestia, and shot a black beam from the tip of his horn, before she could react, the beam hit her at full force, knocking her out instantly, she crashed to the floor, with a thud.
"Tia!" Luna cried as she landed next to her unconscious sister, as Shadow landed, he laughed, "oh please, that was barely anything compared to my true power" he said laughing, "you monster, you will pay for this!" Luna said, as she charged forward, Shadow repeated the same motion, as Shining Armor, and smacked her hard, against the face, also knocking her unconscious as well, she landed right next to her sister.
he walked up to them and laughed, "take them away, we have new plans to make" he said walking out onto the balcony, and looking up at the moon, he heard Night Wing, come out from behind, "sir, during, your little battle, we had a chance to go through the princess's file's and we have found some interesting knowledge" he said calmly, "well speak" Shadow said not facing him, "we found that she has a student named Twilight Sparkle, and that her friends, represent the Elements of Harmony, but that isn't the best part, her husband happens to be the one who killed Skyfall" he said still calm.
"Really, you're right that is interesting, so some new pieces have been added to the game, let's pay this student of hers a little visit" he said walking back into the library, quickly followed by Night Wing.
A/N: well the first bit of action, the suspense builds up slowly; find out what happens to Twilight next time.