The moon. One of the two celestial bodies in the sky and little sister of Sun, shone brighter than ever. Nopony really knew what had happened, but the moon was ornated with silhouette of a pony, one can only guess who. A hooded figure raced through the forest, towards the castle of two sisters. They knew that it was now or never, if they wanted to find something, anything worth of great power from there. After all, one of two immortal beings had just fallen there. She reached a small hill that had a great view at the castle, and was covered by big rocks. The hooded figure took cover in the rocky formation. That was when a bright flash filled the sky, and an ear piercing scream could be heard. The pulse from the strong spell send the unicorn flying, and she hit a rock that stopped her fly short.

The unicorn got up from the ground, her hood dropping down and revealing her features. Ember shook her head, to clear her mind from the hit on her head. She didn't let this small set back stop her, and she climbed back up, to get a view at the castle again. There was not a single creature to be seen there, the clash between two alicorns must have driven them away, to hide, out from the harms way. But it was a plus for Bright Ember, as all the predators had left as well. Ember reached the castle gate in minutes. She had witnessed the bright beam and the agonizing scream of the younger sister, or what was left of her in that, warped new form of hers. Ember began to approach the gate, but quickly hid behind a ruined pillar, as the fallen alicorn's sister flew away from the castle. Where she was going, Ember had no idea, nor was she interested in that. The gate had been damaged, and was easy to get through. Ember entered the castle through a small opening and was walking in the now empty hallway of the castle, that belonged to the rulers of Equestria. The feeling of being there already brought a sense of might to Ember, but she knew that it wouldn't be enough. Ember looked around for a moment, before picking a random direction from numerous hallways and galloped down that way.

After a short while Ember arrived to what most likely was an armory. She took a quick look around, but everything there seemed to be standard issue armor and weaponry for the guards. Maybe they held all the enchanted equipment elsewhere, or maybe they had took it away from there, to be used against the corrupted Princess... Ember discarded the piece of armor she had inspected and moved on. She went through the barracks and towards the living quarters. The eerie silence in the hallways started to creep ember out. She hadn't really noticed it before, but now it was overwhelming. Ember took a small, rather dull dagger from under her cloak and held it close to her with her magic, hoping that it would make her feel a little bit safer there.

A walk that seemed to last forever, eventually brought Ember to a door that was slightly open. The door has a symbol of the sun encrusted to it. Ember brought her hoof up and gave the door a gentle push, but for some reason, she couldn't go in. Touching the door gave her a strange feeling. It must be protected with magic, or something else like that... The strange feeling grew into an uneasy one, and it was forcing her to step away, to leave the place she was currently standing in. Ember tried to resist it, but couldn't and eventually she had to leave. The crest on the door was shining dimly, giving away an impression that it was doing something. Ember left the corridor before the door could do anything else. She was slightly afraid that maybe the door had somehow "alerted" Celestia of her presence, and didn't want to take any chances with it. Ember left the upper wing of the living quarters and headed to search the lowers ones. They didn't seem to have any kind of protection placed on them, but their contents were nothing worth celebrating. mostly beds for ponies to sleep in and closets for the said ponies to store their clothing. Dream kept going through the rooms one by one, still slightly scared that The Princess of the Sun would appear there and catch her just rummaging through her castle, but at the same time she was wondering, why The Princess wasn't there already. Why the castle was completely empty in the first place? Ember gave up with searching for trinkets in the living quarters and headed towards the throne room.

Getting the door leading to the throne room open was a challenge of it's own. The room was in ruins, and the door had been blocked by rubble, but Ember managed to get the door open enough for her to slip through it. She took a moment to observe her surroundings. In the middle of the room was a strange looking pedestal, but it seemed to be empty. Slowly and carefully, Ember made her way to the two thrones in the end of the room. She approached the darker and slightly smaller throne and climbed up to it. The moment she sat down, Ember heard a voice speaking to her from somewhere around the room. She had no idea where it came from, but it sounded like it was close.

"Greetings, young one..." The voice said, while sounding friendly, it still caused Ember to instantly jump down from the royal chair and draw her dagger out. She spun around, keeping her dagger pointed to the direction she was looking at, trying to find the source of the voice, but simply couldn't see anypony else there.

"W-who's t-there!"