The next morning Luna arose, still disoriented from the events that took place last night. She thought nothing of it, as she arose fresh as a daisy. She stretched as she noticed a small piece of paper by her bed, a personal note she had written, and put upon her nightstand last night.

“Strange, I put this on my nightstand…D-Didn’t I?” Luna puzzled, looked around her room for any place that would cause the gust needed to knock the note off her nightstand. There was none, she sat at her desk asking herself how that could’ve happened without a possible gust to push it over.

At that moment Celestia entered the room with a worrisome look in her eyes, “I heard about the incident last night with the guards. Luna! How can you joke about such a serious thing!” Her voice was of shock.

Luna looked down shyly, “Celestia…I wasn’t joking, I saw a fire. I felt the heat coming from it! I smelt the burning carpeting! You have got to believe me!” Luna noticed how she was talking. The exact same way the stallions had last night.

Celestia was shocked, “L-Little sister?” She looked extremely worried of Luna now.

“Please sister…Y-You have to believe me…” Tears started rolling from her eyes uncontrollably, as if her eyes were a water balloon that had been delicately pierced.

Celestia went over to her, “I believe you Luna, but do you now believe the stallions?”

Luna stared down and replied with defeat in her voice, “Yes sister, I believe them. But how is it that we’re seeing things! This can’t be a coincidence you know…” Luna was shocked at the words she’d just spoken, she didn’t feel like herself, and it was starting to show.

The two stallion guards Tenor and Treble returned to Celestia in their armor confused by the scene they’d walked in on. “Princesses? What’s the occasion? What’s with this meeting?” Treble said then looked at Luna, “Princess, how incredibly shaken you look, it’s as if you’d seen a ghost!”

Celestia stood up, “I’m sorry for the grim scene you’ve walked in on. But Luna has something she wants to speak to you about.” She moved and Luna stood up and walked toward the two stallions shyly.

“I’m very sorry I didn’t believe you. But I myself, last night, experienced something I cannot explain…” Luna started blushing embarrassed to have to apologize to them.

The guards were taken back by Luna’s tone and apology. “It’s okay princess, we’re all a bit shaken up…But we’ll stand by your sides, for when you truly need us!” Treble and Tenor stood up tall, confident, and most of all, determined.

Luna stood up and smiled, “Thank you for forgiving me. But this can’t be a coincidence, something strange is going on.” Luna began walking up to her desk to grab the note she’d lain on it moments ago. “It’s gone?! But I had just put it here before Celestia walked in!” Luna was now worried, “Something is going on, I’m missing my notes, some of my books are gone, my sheets were flung off me last night…”

Tenor spoke quietly, “Are you thinking it might be…a…ghost?...”

Celestia looked at him, “Of course not, just some slight mental paranoia with you all…But something is strange, half of my letters have mysteriously disappeared. You know the ones I use to contact most ponies in Equestria.” She had started to sound a bit off-put by the current situation.

Tenor and Treble looked at each other, “Ma’am, Treble said he woke up with most of his possessions thrown out onto the floor. I this morning had a tight push upon my chest. Whatever it is, it wants us all dead…”

Luna gasped, “D-Dead?! I’m much too young to die!” Luna was now pacing in a circle, with sweat coming over her forehead.

Treble spoke strongly, “It wants me and Tenor dead. It simply is making itself know to everypony…It’s very strong, and very determined.” Treble gulped softly, “It won’t stop at just that…The visions, the hallucinations…It’s madness, literally madness.”

Celestia and Luna looked at the stallion intrigued at his words and sat quietly as he spoke.

“What it’s doing is wearing us down, it’s getting into our minds! It’s literally driving us to the point of madness princess! And…we have no way to retaliate to it…” Treble sighed, and toughened his look. “Unless…It’s not a ghost…It knows our fears, our pet peeves, and…It knows it’s way around the castle. Nothing that’s happened has been a coincidence, somepony is doing this to us. Somepony with magical powers, a unicorn perhaps.”

Tenor abruptly cut off Treble, “But there are no unicorns here in the castle currently, just the Alicorns like Celestia, Luna and…Eclipse!” He spoke his name as if he had a “Eureka” moment.

Treble looked onto his partners face, his face contorted with fear, “Are you implying it’s Eclipse doing this to us?” he said shakily.

Tenor looked back, “Yes, he’s the only one who can do such magic. Such spells require large amounts of energy and magical ability. Magic...magic…Perhaps that’s how he’s survived in there! Why the magic wouldn’t open the door!” Tenor now paced back and forth.

Celestia looked shocked, her jaw nearly dropping, “Are you accusing my brother of such things! He would never hurt a fly! Besides why would he want to hurt you stallions anyways?” Celestia looked into the stallion’s eyes as an awkward look passed over them.

Tenor chuckled, “W-Well…Me and Treble…Kinda…sorta…” he couldn’t get the words out right.

Luna was impatient, “Well?! Out with it then!” she demanded.

Tenor sighed, “Me and Treble are the ones who got everypony on guard to make fun of him…He didn’t have his cutie mark so we thought that he was...” Tenor gulped, “As we said it…Pathetic?” He chuckled nervously.

Luna and Celestia looked at the stallions in shock, Celestia’s most trusted guards, are the ones who drove their brother to seclude himself in the first place. Celestia’s gaze turned grim and she got up and her hair seemed to droop slightly.

“You drove my brother to seclude himself from everypony.” Celestia said, “But we cannot be certain it’s my brother doing this. We can’t blindly say that he’s done what he has…But…” Celestia turned to her little sister, “It all fits perfectly…” A stream of tears began out of Celestia’s eyes. And the room filled with the gloom of the princesses.