A/N: well I'm back, this is one of the last chapters of this part, so hope you all enjoy.
Return of the Shadow League: chapter 8: shadow rising
As Princess Celestia, finally regained consciousness, she tried to open her eyes, and when she did, she could barely see, her vision was blurred, using what remained of her strength, she tried to stand up, when she did, she was met with a sharp pain in the head.
Slowly her vision returned to her, so did the events that recently occurred, she remembered them, as if they were a dream, one terrible dream, she tried her best again to get up, she finally stood on her hooves, and when she looked around, she instantly noticed that she was no longer in the castle, but inside a large metal structure.
She raised her hoof, up to rub her throbbing head, but her hoof stopped mid-way, and she heard the clinking of metal, when she looked down, she saw her hoof was chained, when she looked down at her other hooves, she noticed that they were all chained, she tried to pull at them, but they didn't budge.
She suddenly heard moaning coming from behind her, she turned and saw Luna, lying on the floor, behind her, her hooves also chained up, "Luna!" she cried out as she rushed over to her sister's side, when Luna lifted her head, and looked up, she rubbed her eyes, trying to focus, "Tia, what is this, where are we?" she asked tugging at the chains, and looking around.
"I don't know, I can't seem to remember, hold on, let me try something" she said, as she bent her head down, and touched the chain, with the tip of her horn, and closed her eyes, the tip started to glow, as she closed her eyes, at first nothing happened, so she tried harder, her horn, glowed brighter, as she closed her eyes tighter, still no effect.
She collapsed to the ground, as the pain in her head returned, "Tia!, Are you alright?" Luna said as she walked up to her sister, Celestia pushed herself, back up on her hooves, and looked down at her, "yes, I'm fine" she said, as she turned and looked around.
After that, they both started looking around, as they turned to the front, they saw a massive window, and the clouds calmly passing by, but that wasn't what caught their attention, it was the large pony, standing in front of it.
"hello, where are we, what is this?" Celestia asked, facing the strange pony, this caught his attention, as he turned around, revealing a pony, that only came in their nightmares, "ah, good your awake, I was starting to think I hurt you too bad" Shadow Blaze said, as he fully turned to face them, both the Princess's blood ran cold, at the sight of the pony before them.
But soon Celestia's anger flared, as she took a fighting position, "you!, where are we, what is the meaning of this" she asked angrily as her horn glowed brightly, Shadow simply smiled, "I wouldn't do that if I were you" he said with a sinister smile.
She ignored him, as she bent down, and shot a powerful blast of magic, right in his direction, he stood perfectly still, the beam was half way to him, until it stopped and collided with an invisible barrier, suddenly a green wall, appeared around, them, they realized they were trapped, inside a barrier, Shadow chuckled to himself, as he started walking around them.
"Nice isn't it, a simple shield spell, only I changed its effect, normally it wouldn't let anything in, now nothing can get out" he said with a broad smile, Celestia and Luna glared angrily at him, as he continued circling him, "what is it you want?" Celestia asked, trying to suppress her rage, he noticed this and smiled.
"you already know what I want, to take what is rightfully mine" he said as he completed a full circle around them, and turned to face them, "if that's true, why keep us alive" Celestia asked, fearing his answer, he smiled widely, as he turned around, "can you guess where we are?" he said, looking forward, when he heard no response he continued.
"we are on board the Crimson Sky, the crown jewel of the Equestrian Air Force fleet, followed by all the other sir ships in the fleet, our current destination is PonyVille" he said turning back to them, they had looks of pure horror on their faces, much to his amusement.
"so to answer your question, I'm keeping you alive, so you can witness the fall of your beloved kingdom, with your own two eyes, I will burn this kingdom to the ground, and you will watch helplessly, so you can see the mistakes you made not preparing for this day, in fact we should be arriving over PonyVille, in a matter of seconds" he said as he turned to the front of the ship.
Suddenly they heard a loud voice, come from overhead, "sir, we are approaching ponyVille, we shall arrive in 1 minute" it said, before it turned off, after that he turned his attention back to the Princess's, who had a very worried expressions.
He smiled at this, as his apprentice Night Wing, walked up behind him and bowed, "Master Shadow Blaze, we have reached our destination, PonyVille is right below us" he said, before getting up, from his position, Shadow looked down at him, with a smile, "excellent work Night Wing, give the order" Shadow said to his apprentice.
Night Wing nodded and walked off, "what is it you plan to do?" Celestia asked, as she looked him in the eyes, he turned to them, with a smile that sent a chill up her spine, "well, your about to find out" he said, as he again turned around, an faced the large window, outside, stood the peaceful town of PonyVille, only it wouldn't last.
Night Wing walked up to the intercom, and spoke, "attention crew, this is Night Wing, your orders are to destroy anything that moves, leave none alive" he said, before he took his hoof off the button, and turned back to the captain of the ship, Shadow Blaze, laughed as he turned his head back to the captured Princess's.
"Now watch, as this pathetic town burns to the ground" he said, before he turned his attention, back to his apprentice, "fire!" he shouted, and Night Wing relayed the message to the rest of the crew.
(Crimson Sky, below deck)
As all the troops got into their positions, they approached the large cannons, and got in the seats, suddenly the commanding officer of the deck came in, "alright, you know what to do" he said, and all the soldiers adjusted the sights before pointing the cannons at the target they were ordered, as they got their targets in sight, they waited for the official order to go, "fire!" came a loud voice over the intercom, the soldiers turned to the launch button, breathed a heavy sigh, and pushed the button.
A/N: wow that was shorter than I intended it to be, but this is the second to last chapter of this part, but the next will be longer, see you then.