Ch. 7: Finding Celestia

The Mane Six soon made it to Castle Celestia and headed for the High Princess' bedroom.

"Princess Celestia!" Twilight cried, bursting through the doors along with her friends. "We got a problem!" However, they only found Princess Luna and Spike sleeping on the pillows. Princess Celestia was nowhere to be found. Fearing for the worse, the six Ponies rushed over to them and tried to revive them.

"Spike!" Twilight cried, nudging the baby dragon awake.

"Princess Luna, wake up!" Rarity begged as she shook the Alicorn. Spike was the first to wake up with a start.

"AUGH, CREEPY SNAKE EYES!" he cried, jumping out of the blanket and pillow.

"SISTER!" Luna cried, looking around the room frantically. "Sister, where art thou?"

"Calm down thar, Sugar Cube," Applejack said to her. "Just tell us what happened."

"Well, we were waiting for you to return," Spike explained, "when Discord and his snake buds showed up. I was about to fight them off, but that big green snake—I think he was called Kaa—he used some kind of a spell on me put me to sleep. His eyes were swirling colors, and it got me all dizzy. That was when I blacked out."

"And I was about to help out as well, " Princess Luna explained, "but the yellow one called Hiss did the same thing to me."

"They must have hypnotic abilities like Discord does," Rainbow Dash replied.

"But if they were unconscious when they got here," Fluttershy replied with shock, "that must mean that…"

"Princess Celestia has been kidnapped?" Rarity cried before fainting into Pinkie Pie and Applejack's arms.

"Rarity," Rainbow Dash groaned, "if you keep on fainting like that, you're gonna mess up your mane." The beautiful Unicorn's deep blue eyes shot open before jumping out of her friends' arms and quickly fixing her hair.

"Oh, no!" she cried frantically. "Not that! Anything but that! I can get knots in my mane that way!"

"Either way, you're right, Rarity," Twilight said. "Discord must have taken Princess Celestia. Apparently, he wants to be certain that he's the first one she sees when he strikes her with his Golden Arrow."

"He's going to make a Golden Arrow too?" asked Spike with wide shock.

"Yeah, he's got the instructions for it," Rainbow answered. "What's worse is that we can't cure him from the Arrow's spell because it struck him in the heart."

"If that is true," Luna replied with shock in her tearing eyes, "and he hits Sister Celestia in the heart with his Golden Arrow, she will be love with him permanently."

"Right," Twilight sighed, "and who knows where Discord has taken her." Luna would have broken down into tears had she not shot her eyes wide open with realization.

"Wait, I have just remembered something that could be of help!" she cried. "A couple of months back, my sister had taughteth me a location spell. We use it to locate each other if we are ever separated and need to find each other again. If I can use my location spell…"

"We can find out where Princess Celestia is," Pinkie Pie said with realization. "Ooh, I love playing hide and seek." Ignoring that last part, Luna concentrated on her spell through her horn.

Then she began seeing images through her mind's eyes. Her older sister was asleep on pink and lavender silk pillows, her horn and wings missing. Discord's doing, no doubt. Next, the images show Celestia in a room with Discord, who was busy at work at a bench with ingredients for a spell. Must be for the Golden Arrow. The final image was of the ruins of a castle the younger princess knows very well.

Opening her eyes, she turned to Spike and the Ponies.

"Discord has taken my sister to the ruins of our old castle within the Everfree Forest," she said to them quickly. "He has takeneth away her wings and horn so she can neither fight back nor escape."

"Then we have to go there and save her," Twilight said, using her horn's magic to put the Elements of Harmony on her and her friends.

"We have to hurry," Luna said. "Discord has already beguneth the concoction for the Golden Arrow. I can use my magic to get us there as quickly as possible, but the spell will stop in a hurry. Possibly when we are halfway over the forest."

"That's fine, Princess," Luna said to her with confidence. "We'll stop with the spell when we're halfway there and run the rest of the way." With a nod, Luna concentrated on a spell that caused her mist-like mane and tail to grow longer and larger and slip under the Ponies, save Rainbow Dash with Spike on her back and Fluttershy. She then flew out of the room and towards the Everfree Forest, her mane and tail holding our heroes and trailing behind her like the train of a bridal gown. And Rainbow, Fluttershy, and Spike flew after her.

I hope we are not too late, Luna prayed to herself with only her sister in her mind. Celestia, please hangeth on.