Hmm… I thought, it seems that the guards take a break for one hour at the crack of dawn. Then the new ones come out, to take the entire day as one shift, talk about determination.

It's been about a week since Luna told of my treachery, and life has been a living hell. I've had to live in the Everfree Forest, so no one could find me. I thought that Luna would send her guards to find and capture me, but instead she sent them to Ponyville to protect the citizens. It was a smart move on her part, now they are all over the place, making sure that no one suspicious gets in. I don't know how the citizens are actually dealing with this, but to me, this makes my job of trying to talk to the Holders of Harmony almost impossible.

I'm almost out of food, and my morale is low. Each day brings Luna one step closer to taking the throne, then who knows what might happen? I've been watching the guards each day, trying to memorize their shifts and breaks. I was genuinely surprised to find that they took such a long break at the beginning of the day; I would've thought that Luna would tell them to stay on constant watch; this is another mistake she has made. The other would be when she and I had our confrontation; the spell she was preparing to kill me took almost all her concentration, and allowed me to break free of her binding spell, thus allowing me to escape.

Perhaps Luna underestimates me? I questioned myself, if so, then I might have a slight advantage, or maybe she just plans to make me suffer longer by cursing me to run and hide. I decided to stop thinking so negatively; however I have had that task to be a little too hard these days. Being out on your own, and having everypony out to get you, not to mention the fact that I basically gave Luna the edge she needed to take the throne. Who knows what she might do with that power?

I shook my head and tried to focus on everything I've learned in these past few days. I realized that the purple unicorn that I saw when I was young was a holder of one of the Elements of Harmony, small world I thought, but I think she might be the best target to ask for help. Over these past few days I managed to learn the names, looks, and residence of the Holders of Harmony, but that's it. Anytime I try to find out more I get a complication due to all the guards in the area and the wanted posters around the town, which has both me without my cloak, and me with it on.

Talking to anypony is out of the question, so I have had to stick to the clouds, the ground, anything really to find out any other information concerning the five, and so far I haven't found anything of use, but I haven't been killed yet, so I guess it's a point for me? I went back to my temporary shelter in the Everfree Forest to come up with a plan.

Let's see… I know Twilight lives in the Library there. I thought, and then chuckled to myself, figures, and I assume she will be in bed at the time the guards switch places, I don't think the time could be any better, so that settles that part. I pulled out my last apple from my saddle bag; it was bruised and beaten, but still eatable. I took a soft munch and continued formulating my plan in my mind, but then, what should I say? I've settled on holding her down because I think she will scream for the guards if I just wake her up. I think I should be honest and truthful with her and hope she listens, and hey, she might even remember me. The thought of her actually knowing me filled me with peace, and for a split second I felt happy. Something that was very hard to come around by for me.

Whoa, a little pathetic there Adomia. I scolded myself; you've been training your life to be a silent, cold-blooded killer. Happiness and peace are not in your dictionary Luna always said, and after what happened I believe she is right.
Even thought it was noon I decided to get some sleep anyway. I slept soundly all through the day and night, and awoke at the crack of dawn. Ok, now's my chance I told myself, let's set things right today.

I flew off in the direction of Ponyville, and when I arrived I hid in a small alleyway. Looking out I saw that no pony was out, not even a guard; it was as if someone sucked the life out of the place. I saw the Library where Twilight was staying, and landed on her balcony. I took a deep breath and exhaled, "All right, let's do this."

I opened the door with complete silence and tip-hoofed into the room. Looking around, I saw that there were rows upon rows of books and a little stairway heading up to something I couldn't see. Moving as quiet as I could I trotted up the stairs to a sleeping Twilight Sparkle. It was only when I looked down at my blade did I realize something, I forgot my cloak! I put a hoof to my face and silently yelled, Now's not the time to worry about something like that!

I unsheathed my blade, and was about to disturb the peace that was in the room. With one final gulp I jumped onto her bed. I thought she would scream when she woke up, but instead she woke up slowly and blinked her eyes a couple of times.
Right when she saw me she opened her mouth to scream, I jammed my charcoal hoof into her mouth, and put my blade up to her throat, and hissed, "Be quiet! I do not want to hurt you! Now just promise that you will give me a chance to speak, and I'll remove my hoof, ok?"

She looked at me with fearful eyes at my blade and then back to my eyes, I started to feel something I never felt for during any contract ever, remorse. I was about to remove my hoof and start talking, but then I felt a little bit of warmth hit my flank. I turned around to see part of my dark red tail singed off, and baby dragon awake and looking very angry

He said, "How'd you like that?" in a mocking tone

I laughed a little, and said in a sarcastic tone, "Like what? The petty fire that just came out of your mouth?" I chuckled and continued in a sarcastic tone, "Oh no, whatever shall I do about my singed tail? It's sooooo painful I just can't bear it"

Little did I know that he was actually taking my attention away from Twilight and onto him. I didn't notice the mare slip from my grasp, and I turned around to see her horn glowing and by the time I realized what had happened she whispered in my ear, "Sleep"

I tried to say something, but I felt lightheaded and I was out cold in a couple of seconds.

It took a couple of seconds for my vision to come back, and when it did, I realized that I was in a dark dank room with a bright shining light beaming down on me. I tried to move my legs, but I found that I was tied down to a bed with rough rope. I tried to pull out my blade to cut it, but it wasn't strapped to my right foreleg like usual. I found out that the only things that weren't tied down were my head and my wings which were fluttering like mad, trying to break free, or fluttering in sheer fear. Loads of Adrenaline was pumping through my veins, and I was hyperventilating. I took a deep breath and tried to calm myself down, with little success. I heard a door open and saw Twilight emerge from the darkness along with Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash. I gulped when I saw Rainbow; she was looking at me with a look of death on her face. It was as if she using everything she had to keep herself in control.

Twilight was the first one to speak, but it wasn't to me, "Ladies, I brought you here because I want to know what you think we should do with this… Pony." I was surprised, because I would've thought Twilight would run the show here, but it looks like she doesn't know what to do with me.

I was about to say something, but Rainbow stepped in and started to get awfully close to me, "What do you think we should do egghead? I'll show you." She raised her front hoof and slammed it right into my face, causing my snout to start bleeding.
She did this three more times, and now I had a black eye to go along with my probably broken snout. She was going to continue, but Twilight intervened and exclaimed, "Rainbow stop! I know you really want to… kill him… but think about it. If you kill him now, you will be on the same level as him."

Thank Celestia I thought then I actually thought about what she said and I exclaimed, "Hey! I'll have you know I was killing for a good cause."

Applejack decided to speak up, "Killing fer a good cause? Ah've never heard that in ma life."

"Well then, seems how little you know." I retorted

A sneer spread across my face when I saw Applejack's reaction, but a look from Twilight held her back from trying to kick my face in. A silence settled over the room, and in that time I realized that they had no idea what to do with me, I could see it in their faces. I was about to tease them again when I stopped myself, Adomia! I silently screamed, we want help from these ponies! Not to make them turn you in to the guards and have Luna kill you! Think before you act!

I'd settled down a bit and decided to speak, "Twilight, you promised me that I would have a chance to speak. I'm hoping you will keep that promise?"

She looked at me still with confusion in her eyes and said, "Well… I suppose, I could…" she trailed off for a bit, and then asked, "Wait a minute, how do you know my name?"

"I guess that's a good place to start" I said, "I know all your name's actually, and where you live, creepy yes I know, but it was all mandatory since I need to ask you mare's a favor."

Rarity decided to chime in, "What would that favor be?"

I was about to say why, but Rainbow decided to interrupt, "Who cares what his favor is! He was the one who killed Fluttershy! I say we kill him, right here, right now."

She started to step toward me when Rarity put her foreleg in front of her and shook her head and said, "I believe we at least owe him to tell us what his favor is."

I was actually baffled by these words, and was confused toward why Rarity would stop her like that. I was greatful, yes, but if I were her I would've let Rainbow hack away at me until my body parts lay scattered on the floor.

I nodded Rarity my thanks and said, "Okay, here's the gist. I was sent by Princess Luna to kill Fluttershy, because I was lead to believe that she was a serial killer, and she was the one who was killing innocent ponies all across Equestria. Turns out I was wrong, and I found out about this. Luna took all the Cutie Marks I have given her over the past couple contracts and managed to blame everything on me. Turns out the past ten contracts I've filled were all innocents, and I regret every single one of their deaths." I looked down and closed my eyes for a few seconds reveling in the fact of what I've done, and then continued, "The reason I wasn't able to find out about this was because I didn't have a source to the outside world, and I've been Luna's personal assassin ever since I was colt and trusted her every step of the way. She told me to never get a subscription to any newspaper because it was a waste of bits, boy was I wrong. She's probably about ready to take down Celestia as we speak, and I need your help to kill her."

The whole room was quiet; they seemed to have gotten the message. However, Rainbow Dash decided to break the peace with, "Ha! Oh that's a good one," she was laughing for a bit, then her look changed back to being very serious, "You actually think we would believe that?! That Princess Luna, who actually learned to adjust in today's society from this year's Nightmare Night, would be secretly trying to take the throne? Do you think we are idiots or something?! Did you actually think you could kill one of my friends and then have the guts to come to us and attempt to convince us that you have any shred of compassion, and think that we would believe that ridiculous story?! Sorry assassin, but you're not getting any help from anypony; in fact I'm going to go get the guards right now. So I can see you being dragged off and then executed."

The words that she said instantly shattered what hope I had left in these ponies. I looked at the ground, knowing I had been defeated, I wanted to say something, but I couldn't find the right words. Looks like this is it Adomia I chided myself, you put your fate into these ponies hooves, and they threw it into-

I was about to continue, but I heard a voice say, "I believe him." I pulled my head up to see Twilight trotting over to me and starting to release my bindings. Rainbow stopped and a look of anger gathered in her eyes. She started to gallop toward me and Twilight, but Applejack slammed her to the ground and pinned her.

Rainbow exclaimed, "Applejack! Let me go! She has no idea what she's doing!" She tried to get out of Applejack's grasp, but found it useless. She gave up, and Applejack got off her.

Applejack spoke up, "Ah'm sorry Rainbow, it's just that ah believe him as well. Ah mean think about it, if he had wanted to kill Twilight, ah think he would've done it back at her home, but instead he let himself get captured so that he could talk to us. Isn't that right?"

Twilight finished releasing the ropes and I got off the bed. I nodded to Applejack, and took a quick scan of myself, I think my snout is broken, and my left eye was swollen shut, and I do have some minor rope burns. But other than that I was fine, I turned to face Rainbow Dash, "I can see where your hostility is coming from, and I understand if you do not trust me at all, but the sooner this is done. The sooner I will be out of your mane."

She didn't look at me and said in a sorrowful tone, "Yeah, but Fluttershy is still dead, and that will never change."

The lights turned on, and I saw that I was in a basement of some sort. Rainbow Dash was leaving the room with the look of sorrow still on her face. Applejack and Rarity followed her out and I could feel they were concerned for her. This left me with Twilight.

"You know, I feel like I know you assassin." She said, "I just don't know where." Looking into her purple eye's I could see her mind trying access any memory of me.

I laughed a little bit and said, "Sure you did, by the way, I was wondering where you put my hidden blade."

She looked back up at me and said, "Oh that? I took it off and left it on that table over there." I was surprised to hear her say that, it's as if she completely trusts me already. It confused me a little bit as I trotted over to the table where my beloved blade was waiting for me. I put it back on and felt a little bit of security build up in me.

Ah it's good to have you back I thought.

I turned to Twilight who was still standing there, still thinking about something and said, "Thanks for believing me, truthfully I'm genuinely surprised. I thought you would let Rainbow kill me, right then and there."

She shrugged and said, "Yeah, I guess…" She stood there pawing the ground with her hoof.

Silence proceeded to spread over the room and I felt a little awkward, so I decided to ask, "Twilight, can you tell me where we are right now?"

She stopped pawing the ground and said, "Underneath Sugar Cube Corner."

"Doesn't an earth pony named Pinkie Pie live here?"

"Yeah, but she's helping a unicorn named Vinyl Scratch with some music or something. Besides I don't think she would've liked to see you get beat up by Rainbow Dash."

I was a little irritated by this comment and retorted, "Hey! I wasn't beaten up I was… well… I don't know, I wouldn't say torture, but I would NOT say beaten up!"

Smooth as sandpaper I thought.

Twilight visibly cringed and said, "Sorry, didn't mean to poke at you like that. By the way, what's your name?"

"Adomia" I said

"Well then Adomia, what do you want specifically from us?" She asked

I thought about it for a minute, thinking about how powerful Luna was, there's got to be a way to block or absorb her magic.

"Well from the other four, nothing right now, but I do need… tutoring from you in magic."

"Why would you want that?" Twilight asked head cocked to the side, "You're not a unicorn or an alicorn."

"I know that," I said, "seriously if I could miss something as big as that, then I would have to start doubting my own sanity." She laughed a little bit at this and, I continued, "I need to learn because I confronted Luna before she ratted me out, and she was able to wipe the floor with me using her magic, and I need to know any way I can avoid, block, or absorb it. Otherwise I don't think I can win." I looked down at my hooves knowing what would happen if I failed.

"Tell me why I should help you again?" Twilight asked.

"Because" I said, "If Luna gets a hold of the throne, she'll have power over night and day. Don't think her intentions would be good with that type of power, I think the first thing she would want to do is kill you five for ruining her plans last time. Then kill Celestia for banishing her for 1000 years in the moon. She may have seemed reformed Twilight, but I know she isn't. If I had stayed she would've sent me to kill you five for revenge, 'sweet, sweet revenge' she said."

Twilight didn't seem convinced she decided to ask, "How do I know you're not bluffing?"

I was taken aback by this doesn't she know the severity of this situation! I thought she believed me, could I be wrong? I thought about how I could convince her and I luckily came to a conclusion.

"Alright then Twilight" I said, "If Luna were to take the throne, she would either kill, or imprison all of Celestia's guards. If all of the guards in Ponyville go back to Canterlot, then it would mean she has captured and/or killed Celestia."

Twilight's eyes widened as her mind clicked, "Then Luna would take the throne! Then she could use her power to put Equestria in eternal night! Since that was her goal originally, plus the peace that Celestia made 1000 years ago might be shattered! Who knows what ponykind would be like if that happened!"

I sighed with relief, knowing I've finally got one pony to join my cause.

I started to head up the stairs when I heard Twilight exclaim, "Wait!"

I turned and she said, "That's it? You're going to leave on that note!"

"Yup" I said, then continued, "like I've implied, this situation is very important, but going now and confronting her would just mean death for all of us. We need to use the element of surprise, my task for you right now is to tutor me in magic and in off-time learn any type of offensive spell. I don't care what it is, but if it can be used to harm other ponies, then by all means learn it. Because I'm basically charging into Hell, and I need you five to help soften the blow. I'll have other tasks for you mare's in the future, but that can wait for another time. Besides," I pointed a hoof to my face and eye, "I got to get these wounds patched up. There not to serious, but having them out of my system ASAP would be quite helpful."

Twilight opened the door and started to head up, but when she was about half way there she paused in the doorway looking deeply into me, as if trying to probe me for information. I felt a little bit creeped out, and asked, "Something wrong?"

She continued her gaze and said, "I don't know what's causing me to believe you Adomia, but I know I've seen your face before, and I think that's causing me to also trust you."

"Twilight…" I said, I felt something right then and there, a feeling I couldn't describe. I dismissed this and continued, "I think we can discuss this tomorrow."

She nodded her head in agreement and said, "Do you want to meet somewhere tomorrow?"

I thought about it The Everfree Forest? Nah, I don't think she would even set hoof in there. Hmm… Oh I know! I remember passing by a small lake near Fluttershy's cottage that might be quite useful.

"I recall there being a small lake near Fluttershy's cottage, am I right?" I asked

Twilight cringed a bit at the mention of Fluttershy and said, "Yeah, she used to feed some of her animals there."

"Alright then," I said matter-o-factly, "I'll see you there at noon make sure you bring everyone, OK?"

She nodded, and went up the rest of the stairs, and I followed, but after I reached the top I found the back exit and decided to take that to find my way back into the forest.

It was starting to become night by the time I got back, and I decided to collect my bags and cloak, and move them into the field where I would be meeting with Twilight.

it'll be a bit nicer there I thought, and I don't think the guards would check over there, their job is to protect the citizens who are in Ponyville, not to go out on their own leaving the town unguarded. That would cause a little to much suspicion on Luna's part.

My thoughts switched to Luna, I wonder what she's doing right now? I'm guessing she's about ready to spring her plan, I don't think Luna would kill Celestia right away. I believe she would make her suffer for a very long time until she begged to be put out of her misery. So I guess that gives me some time, I hope.

I arrived to the lake and started to set up a small campfire near the shore. After about thirty minutes I had myself a nice warm blaze to comfort me on this cold night. I lay down and spent my last minutes of consciousness looking up at the stars and night sky, thinking about how she could've just thrown me away like that. I started to remember all the time I spent with her, whether in my head or physically in front of me.

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Eventually I fell asleep, and in the midst of my sleep I had a flashback dream, it was when I was a colt not too long after I met Luna, I was in the Canterlot library looking over one of the diaries of an assassin, when I saw young Twilight Sparkle enter and sit down at a table and unload her saddlebags onto them. All of them were books, but all of them were a lot better looking than my small, unlabled, leather padded tomes. I would look up once in a while to see her attention engrossed in those books, gaze never wavering.

Young me was apparently surprised by her determination and decided to ask Luna, Hey Luna, who's that filly sitting there at the table?

She responded in my mind with, I don't know. I think she might be Celestia's apprentice, I have seen her talking to my sister.

My younger self laughed a little bit, and responded with, How do you see her Luna? You don't have eyes!

She said in a playful tone, How do you think I'm talking to you Adomia? then her tone switched to a more serious sound, Magic can work in more ways than one, just like how a assassin can kill in more ways than one. Now get back to your studies

My younger self sighed, he went back to his book, but then stopped and said, Luna?

Yes?

I wish you were here right now.

Me too Adomia, me too.

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The dream faded and I woke up, looking in the sky it seemed to be about Eight in the morning, as the sun was about half way to the top.

I thought about the final statement of the dream, yeah Luna I wish you were here right now, so I can plunge my hidden blade into your cold excuse for a heart.

I looked up to the sky and said out loud, "Look out Luna, because your days are numbered, and I will be one who drags you to Hell. Even if I have to go there myself to do it."

To Be Continued…

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