Stormy saw the state of the city, most of the residential area seems to have felt down from the mountain it was build into, the Canterlot Castle could be easy spotted even from the Fog, and some of the towers were bent, not falling to the abyss, but very close to do so.

“Ok…whatever happened here, this stopped being a nightmare loooong ago” he said very concerned about the state of the town.

Stormy checked the room for something useful, he found in the Custodian Badge, a badge capable of opening all magical locks on the Canterlot Archives, and a apple. With few other options, he returned to the first floor, there were a couple of room he haven’t checked, and now that he has the badge, might as well search for any living pony, seeing another pony might bright his day.

Two of the doors were damaged, nothing to do there, when he returned to the main lobby almost going to the stairs he found a not pleasant surprise, 2 Hopping Ponies, if one was already a problem, 2 will not be good sign, he run towards the exit door of the building, but it was also broken.

“Oh crap, exit exit exit, now!” he quickly looked at the room, trying to find a way out.

When he ran to another door he haven’t tried, and luckily for him, it was ok, one of the Hopping Ponies manage to lay a bite on him in his back left hoof, grunting a little Stormy used his sword to quickly finish it off, leaving the other creature intact, as he entered the room and locked the door, he could hear the banging from the remaining creature to try to break the door, thankfully, after a moment it stopped.

“Ok… if I go out I must be ready for the creature this time,” he said to himself, looking at the minor injury in his leg, he was thankful the creature didn’t get a good grip of his hoof.

He checked the place in detail, he could see carpets and curtains, must be the storage room, trying to find the darn key to the bridge controls, but all he could find was rotten apples and a horse shoe, what’s a horse shoe doing in a storage room?. He levitated the horse shoe, it was unusually heavy, but as soon as he moved it, a soft click was heard, like if a door got unlocked.

Stormy tried this time to be as silent as possible to avoid the hopping pony, but his previous wound left a hoofprint, which the creature could smell and jump to that direction, Stormy dodged again, using his sword in a trust attack, it didn't kill the monster in one shot, but was enough to make some distance, he entered another room that had a horse shoe in the doorknob, he tried to turn the doorknob, but it did not moved, so he tried pushing and it did move, he entered the room before the creature could recover.

“I would love to know what in the hay is happening here, but first things first, I have to warn the princess, now, besides the other rooms I checked, this is where the damn master key must be,” he said to himself as he checked the map once more.

He took a look at the area, the only place in the map with a similar shape of the room he was currently in was the “Armory”, as the name suggest, this is where both, Lunar and Solar Guards, store their armors before the shift starts, each important building in Canterlot have it’s own armory, as he walked in further he found that some parts of the armors were on the floor, after a good search he managed to spot the key but it was inside a little box for security purposes, it had a plate on it, it reads;

“Sun and Moon are part of the very big cycle, Harmony, when the Sun sleeps, we watch the Moon rise, when the Moon withdraw, we see the Sunrise, shinning above the land, as for we are the Sun and Moon defenders,"

The plate refers to both Lunar and Solar Guards, since Luna's return from her 1000 years exile, the security has gone more tighter, there was a button next to the plate, Stormy push it and below the plate, a panel with a circular picture appeared, on the above half, a image of Princess Celestia with the Sun shinning on the land full of happy ponies, but on the below half, an image of Princess Luna, with her moon, and most of ponies asleep, except for the lunar guards was displayed, there was a little lever to turn the picture, either clockwise or in reverse, Stormy read the plate riddle one more time.

“Ok… when Celestia sleeps, so does her guards, then Luna awakes, when Luna sleeps, Celestia wakes up, so basically is… one half turn,” he said as he moved the Celestia picture until it was upside down and Luna picture was above “then another half spin counterclockwise, and one full cycle clockwise, representing Harmony.”

The Picture made a clicking sound as it stored itself in the wall again, and the circular picture came back again but with some Lunar and Solar Guards, while the Solar Guards are awake, the Lunar Guards in the picture are asleep, the picture in the above part, had the awake Lunar Guards.

“Ok this one I think it is, one counterclockwise half turn, one clockwise half turn, forward clockwise half turn, and another clockwise half turn, let's hope the guard manual was not mistaken about this,” Stormy said to himself as he moved the pictures.

Stormy made the turns and a soft click was heard, the puzzle locked itself as the box opened, allowing Stormy to take the key, as soon as he put in his saddlebags, a loud crash was heard from behind him, he turned around to see that a armor has fallen, a little relieved he tried to push the door to exit the room, another sound came from where the armor felt down.

“Don´t tell me… there is a monster behind me isn’t it?” he said turning around slowly.

The stallion got ready levitating his sword, but all he could see was the armor starting to stand up, moving kind of irregular, crawling in a zig zag motion towards Stormy. Not taking chances he attacked the armor, removing the helmet with one sword swing, inside the armor all there was inside was a shadow, with no form, it made a shape of a face where the helmet used to be with blank expression on its face.

The shadow tackled Stormy with the armor shoulders, making him fall to the ground, losing his sword, the shadow jumped to him, the sharp horseshoes of the armor were aiming at him, Stormy dodge and tried to buck it, but the metal made it difficult to damage it, the shadow pulled out a little dagger from a side of its armor and tried to stab Stormy in his hooves to prevent movement, it worked, Stormy felt to the ground as the armor felt on top of him and continued to stab his right hind hoof.

“Aaah!!, get off!” he screamed as soon as the pain reached his brain.

Putting his guard training to use he used his 4 hooves to shake off the creature, pushing it away, he levitated his sword again and swing it against the creature, the blade passed through it, running out of ideas he had to get out, he used his lantern spell and shined it directly to the creature to blind it and quickly escape, exiting the armory.

“Ok…physical attacks with that creature are out of the question,” He said holding the door down.

“Groooawrs!” a sound came in from the same room; it was the remaining Hopping Pony.

“Oh right… forgot about him,” Stormy said, holding a nervous laugh.

He did not wanted to lose precious time, since his right hoof was bleeding a lot now, stood down waiting for the creature to hop towards him, as soon as the creature jumped, he counter it’s attack with a slash from his sword, the hopping pony received the full damage, causing it to lay at a side of the room, Stormy then used this opportunity to run to the bridge controls on the 2F.

The bridge controls were on the opposite direction of the custodian room, he used the master key on the door, and the door opened without a problem, with the controls at his disposal, he first checked if there was any power in them, fortunately, it has power and it was ready to work, the bridge will connect to the Canterlot Archives Library 2F, he pushed the button and move the lever, trying to keep his sanity intact, he tried a lame joke for himself, using some nearby books to make a makeshift hardhard.

“One little bridge coming right up,” Stormy said joking,

“Hahaha” a giggle alerted of a presence in the area.

The giggle made Stormy jump, behind him was a memo on the wall next to the bookshelf, it was a drawing, a drawing that appeared suddenly, as it was not there when he entered the room. Stormy froze as he looked the picture, it was the Iron Pony, it had some words written on the back. it reads; "Run Brother!, you can't fight him!". It was different than the one Mistshine drew on the mental hospital, but it was the same drawing style and instead of saying “love”, it said “brother” this time.

“Wait, did Mistshine draw this, how did he do it?, Is he in Canterlot?!” he freaked out, looking at the door with a rather scared face. “If he is in Canterlot, then… those monsters can find him!, I have to find him first before they do!”

With his priorities clear, he ripped a simple book cover from the bookshelf and put Mistshine´s drawing in it, storing the “notepad” if it could be called like that on his saddlebags, now the problem will be reaching the hallway and the stairs to the bridge while avoiding the shadow creature.

He could try a quick teleport to return to the Elements of Harmony hallway, of course!, why he is running when he could teleport to the throne room?, after all, teleport is one of the most basic spells for unicorns, he tried to charge it and teleport, his horn glowed, but the teleport spell didn’t happen.

“Oh come on!, really?!” he yelled frustrated, trying to focus.

He had the mental location of the place he wanted to go, but the teleportation spell was not able to be executed. Well… if he cannot use the easy way, it will have to be done the hard way, although his right hind hoof was bleeding, the adrenaline from last fight was still in effect, so he returned as quick as possible to the Element of Harmony hallway, there was a door to his left that leads towards the bridge, all he had to do was to up more stairs.

“Sometimes I wonder if Sombra designed this castle or if Celestia took inspiration out of him…” Stormy said a little tired.

He did not lose any time though and passed the bridge, the door leading to the Canterlot Archives tower was locked, it had a little hole in it, Stormy quickly took the Custodian Badge, it fit perfectly on the hole, opening the door up, the stallion walked inside and took the badge with him, he might need it later, when the door closed, a clicking sound was heard, followed by the sound of the bridge withdrawing, he could not get back even if he wanted to, was inside the Canterlot Archives now.

He was in the passageway that leads to the Starswhirl the Bearded Wing, the passage way did not have many doors and the doors available were broken, but there was several books in bookshelves, some of them about advanced magic, others about pony anatomy and others about old myths and tales.

He remember perfectly the library, it was one of the most highest buildings in Canterlot, so big it had 5 floors, he used the nearby spiral stairs to ascend to the third floor, that’s where the bridge controls for the Archives were, and they were the ones that connected to the Main Castle, however, most of the torches in the third floor were turned off.

“I just hope the power is on… I can barely see in this dark hallway.” He said taking a deep breath while turning on his lantern spell.

Once he was almost at the door, he could feel a presence that made him feel unsafe, he opened up the door leading towards the controls, the room was a little bit more bigger than the one of the Element’s Tower, once he was in front of the controls, he felt something on his back again, he looked back to find the same creature from his dream, the Ceiling Filly, it laughed like a maniac, getting ready his front hooves with knifes to stab Stormy, this time, he was manage to shake it off, the creature quickly got up, ready to attack, his skeletal face was showing a sick smile.

Stormy was already getting tired of this, he took his sword again and attacked the creature, for his surprise it was very resistant, since it manage to hold up more than one blow from the sword, the creature manage to get up and jump to stab Stormy in his chest, the cold steel of the blade pierced his flesh, but it did not damage any internal organs, Stormy attacked again taking advantage of how close was the creature until he managed to beheaded it, he was breathing heavily, it seems he was careless and there was no bandages to wrap the wounds either. Trying to ignore the pain he focused on his task, but using his raincoat to stop a little the bleeding, the controls for the main bridge were in front of him.

“Huh?... there is a note,” he said as he levitated the note to read it .

“Due to technical difficulties, the bridge to the main castle is out of service, we apologize for the inconvenience," that was the message written.

“Oh great, now you are telling me, wait, there is something else here," Stormy flipped the note, there was something sticky on the other side, almost like blood. “5465?, what is this a numerical code?”

Although the wounds are not serious, he was starting to leave blood trail on the floor, he had to find something to heal himself, he started to search the rooms in the third floor, since he doesn’t have a map for the Canterlot Archives, he had to check room per room, he tend to avoid confrontations with creatures he finds unless they don’t give him much choice to defend himself.

However, there was something very strange, the amount of creatures. One would think that the place will be filled with creatures waiting, ready to kill you as soon as they notice you, but the Archives were empty, even for a library that big, the silence is excessive, he checked a office, the amount of bookshelves gave a hint that it probably was the Archives Director's Office, he searched the room for something of use, he checked the drawers, but nothing useful, just a tasty apple he took in his saddlebags, but he did manage to find a old pocket radio, it was still working it seems.

“A radio?, hey, maybe the emergency signal is still up,” Stormy said, clinging to the hope that somepony alive might be broadcasting.

A soft crack was heard from the window, Stormy jumped, quickly putting away the radio in his saddlebags, he came closer to the window to try to see something through the fog… but he saw nothing. The stallion made his way towards the door and as soon as he put a hoof on the doorknob the radio let out a loud static noise, the window broke and a creature tackled Stormy, making him break the door and fall to the ground, he looked, it was a pegasus mare, but had a large robe covering all her body, also her wings were missing some feathers, the bone structure could be seen and yet that didn´t stopped it from hovering in the air, the look on her face, if you could call it like that with all the rotten flesh and exposed maw bones was an angry one, the mare front hooves suffered from malnutrition, you could see the bones, but contrary to what would somepony expect, it supported her weight well, she had a visible cutie mark, it was some bones snapping with a Scythe.

“Ow… that hurts, so… a new creature, mind if I call you the Skeletal Mare?” Stormy addressed to the creature, trying to talk the situation out.

“...” no words exited the mare mouth.

The “Skeletal Mare” nicknamed by Stormy, flew across the office, attacking him with tackles, her back hooves did also not have any flesh at all, but they were only bones with a sharp end, between tackles, the creature switched from using her front hooves to use her back hooves while flying, Stormy draw his sword to counter her attacks, but the creature used her sharp hooves bones to break his balance and give him a good buck, making him suffer from the stab he just received, dropping his weapon, the creature, seeing Stormy without defense, attacked again.

“Gah!, come on, think!, I need a projectile!" Stormy said, nearly dodging the creature.

There was a magic bullets spell he learned while he was in training, he was not sure if the magic blast was going to hurt the creature, but it was his last hope, the creature returned to attack again with it's back hooves, Stormy´s horn started to glow as he saw his window of opportunity and shoot a magic blast, she screamed in pain as the impact hit her chest, sending the creature towards the nearby wall very heavily, Stormy took his chance and finish the creature putting all his strength in his front hooves as he jumped towards the creature, the creature was no longer moving.

Stormy picked up his sword and moved towards the spiral stairs, it didn’t took long to the radio to emit a sound again, the Skeletal Mare started to rise again, Stormy did not have time to react, when he turned around the mare jumped towards him already, making him impact the wall, she then stabbed him in his right back hoof with her natural weapons, where his previous wound was, he by instinct grabbed his weapon, only to have it taken away by the creature..

“…you must… pay… for your sins…” said the creature, she had obvious problems talking, probably due to the lack of flesh in her throat.

“Get, off!” Stormy demanded charging another magic blast.

The creature reacted different from before, before Stormy could fire, she stepped back, dodging the blast, the creature seems to emit a smile, as she picked Stormy sword and use it against him, the stallion dodged, but his raincoat got caught in the creature featherless wings.

His attire selection proved to be a golden opportunity for the creature, with no defense besides the magic bullets, that “mare” managed to lay a good sword strike on Stormy´s chest, she smiled as she seems to trap the stallion with the bones on her wings and started to stab his body multiple times, Stormy had lost the battle, as the creature now held the upper hoof, she looked at a room and threw Stormy in it, breaking the door with his body, the creature smiled as she walked away, taking the stallion only weapon besides magic with her, the creature flew out of the archives, through the same hole she came in.

“Aahhh!, w-why she didn’t-“ Stormy tried to get up, but a sharp pain traveled his spine, sending him to the ground. “-killed me?”

Stormy tried to stand up, but his wounds made him fall to the ground, everything was starting to fade to black, his eyes were starting to close, he could not believe it, his body was actually more fragile that he ever thought it would, his mind rushed with thoughts about his brother, about Luna.

He heard the door opening; he was both tired and afraid to open his eyes, although his memories were the ones that were keeping him alive, his ears still work, tracking any unusual sound. The sound of hoofsteps let him know there was somepony in the room with him, a loud sound of an object dropping startled him, Stormy did not feel any other pain, besides the ones he already have, he opened up his eyes slowly to see what was the sound he heard, to his surprise he was seeing a full first aid kit right in front of his eyes, from the Canterlot Hospital Nursery.

“A First Aid Kit?, but this is only available at Canterlot Hospital, that is almost next to the Royal Castle and the Princess Celestia School for Gifted Unicorns, who could have?” Stormy questioned as he crawled and put a hoof on the kit lid.

The kit had everything he needed, bandages, suture kits, hemostatic medicine to stop bleeding, disinfectant, even morphine to do not feel pain for a while, it was like a medical care in one little box, sadly, it can only be used one time, but he was willing to take the risk though, however, the fact that the kit appeared just in front of him when he needed it the most made him question his luck, maybe his brother really is in Canterlot?.

Stormy with his remaining magic, ran in a quick check on his body, he had cuts and stab wounds on his right hind leg, a big sword strike on his chest and several cuts and a broken rib product of the Skeletal Mare’s wings, fortunately, the kit came in with a foal drawing.

“T-this is Mistshine´s drawing!” he said in shock.

The drawing was of himself healing up, behind the drawing there were written instructions on how to heal, he started to treat his wounds following his brother instructions. The needle and thread used to close surgical wounds was already sterilized, as Stormy closed the wounds, a little blood manage to escape, he tried his best not to scream, he bit his own raincoat to muffle his screams, with the disinfectant and styptic manage to stop the bleeding, the bandages covered his wounds, sealing them up, sadly, for broken bones there was nothing made of wood to help his broken bone to heal, he looked at the windows and the pieces from the door, there was enough wood to heal his broken rib, he took it with his magic and pressed them against him, then he wrap it up in another bandage, finally he was healed up, still, he have to be careful though, it will take a few minutes to recover his magic and his body to take the medicine, so meanwhile, it will be for the best to avoid any monsters encounters.

“If this kit came from Canterlot Hospital, I guess I will need to take a look there for clues about my brother,” he said, getting a second air.

Stormy rested for a moment, he looked at the radio, he searched on the radio station that guards use for emergencies, there was no transmission, only static, the turned it off, if he cannot contact anypony, at least it will serve as an alarm when the monsters are near.

Once the stallion felt recovered, he stand up ready to move, storing the foal drawing in the notepad he got earlier, he decided to go up, after all, the bridge is out, so sooner or later he will have to use the main exit, and a little exploring won’t hurt, specially since he need to find something else to use as weapon. The stairs started to feel a little bit sticky, Stormy focused and tried to use his lantern spell, he managed to make a very dim light, but enough for him to see the corpse of a hopping pony almost next to the stairs, 4F had a hallway almost full with corpses of Ceiling Fillies and Hopping Ponies.

“What in the!?” he said, rushing to the creatures corpses. “These creatures were killed a long ago, they have sword slashes, it seems the Skeletal Mare already passed here.”

He checked a room in the 4F, it had a numerical lock combination, “wait, a numerical combination, that's it!”, almost immediately, he took the note from before, and input the number written in blood, the lock on the door quickly let out a beep, indicating it is opened now, Stormy entered the room, seems it was a old book storage, when the books are marked for either relocation or donations to schools in Equestria, most of the books were old and dusty, he tried looking for something that could help him enter the main castle area, a book stood upon the rest, it was opened in the middle of the room, but the more strange thing, it that most of the pages were torn out, Stormy checked the book title, it reads “Book of Ancient Song of Harmony”, only the cover and the 4 pages were still glued to the book, at least enough to read.

“For anypony reading this book, the following pages contains a complete record of ancient songs used to perform by royal request for both Princess Luna and Princess Celestia, some of this songs are magical for themselves, and others could result in danger for the user, if they lack the magical talent to play them, these songs should not be attempted to usage in any circumstances, unless you have direct permission from both princesses,” that was the warning on the first page.

“I don´t need history lessons to know that these songs were played before Luna got banished, maybe this could be useful, if I can master all the songs in this book, there could be a chance I can talk with the Princess Luna, or defend myself without weapons via magic, this counts as emergency to me, let´s see what we have here,” he said as he read.

Stormy checked the table of contents of that book, he was trying to find a song that could be used to communicate with Luna or Celestia, since Luna most of the time talk and act as she was still 1000 ago, she should be able to answer the right ancient song in an instant, if she is alive that is, he looked frenetically, almost as if his eyes were about to merge with the book

“Come on, Princess Lullaby, Minuet of Everfree, Oath of Harmony, Song of Refresh, Pegasus Storms, Earth Pony's Ballad, Serenade of the Seaponys. Uughhh, none of these ones are communication songs most of them boost attack, defense or stamina, it doesn’t help most of the songs are missing.” he said, almost giving up. ”Hold up, wait, there is a song on the next page.” he said as he found was he was searching.

“Winds of Friendship, a magical song used to communicate with somepony over long distances, wait, this is!, let's see, the song itself is not difficult, but is very loud, it will attract the creatures… but I don't have other choice, I’m healed enough to use some magic,” Stormy said to himself as he took his ocarina out of his saddlebags.

It has been too long since he use his instrument, but he still remembered how to play it, the book instructed on how to connect with the pony you want, you have to concentrate via magic, great, he was tired of using his magic non-stop, but he had to try at least, after all, he has no guarantee that the princess is still alive.

He concentrated the best he could, to regain his magic on his horn again, as soon as his magical glow came back on his horn, as he levitated the ocarina and started to play it, being a wind instrument, he used his magic to block the holes, following the notes on the book, the magic on the ocarina made it easier to play thankfully, but Stormy was only thinking of talking to the princess, he played the song fully, from head to toe, but… he did not get any answer.

“Oh for Pete sake!, great source of help ancient book!, Dumb book!” Stormy raised his voice due to the lack of immediate answer, dropping his instrument.

With no answer, he levitated his ocarina to store it, but the magical aura on it changed, it glowed with a dark sapphire blue color, he recognized the color almost instantaneously, it was the Princess!, she picked up, Stormy horn was still glowing with his blue color aura, he held the ocarina on his hooves, cutting the levitation spell off, the glow faded and increased constantly, indicating magic response.

“CEASE YOUR STRUGGLE, STALLION!!!” the royal voice of Luna resounded with strength. “RELEASE THAT INSTRUMENT NOW, FOR YOU DON'T KNOW THE POWER OF ITS SONG!!”

“Ow, my ears!” Stormy said as he covered his ears. “Too late princess, I already casted the song, wait... IT WORKED!” he yelled happy, forgetting for a moment he was talking with Luna.

“SO YOU KNOW THE POWER OF SAID SONG?” the princess replied, interrogating the stallion about the use of the song.

“First of all my princess, yes I do.” Stormy said as he grabbed the book and read the song he just played “According to this book, it helps me to talk with somepony over large distances, I figured that it will help out in the current situation... and second, stop yelling please, is not a good idea to use your royal canterlot voice” he said as he massaged his ears.

“BUT THAT MAGIC... IT IS AN ANCIENT ONE! IT´S NOT SOMETHING ANYPONY CAN POSSESS, LET ALONE BEING ABLE TO USE!” the princess said again, without lowering her royal voice.

“Ancient or not, it was my only means of contact you, look outside in whatever place you are Luna, that’s the reason why I ask you to lower your voice!” Stormy demanded to the princess, before taking a deep breath.

Princess Luna took a quick look outside of her current location, the ocarina stopped it’s glow momentary, before resuming, the princess voice stopped being the royal canterlot one to pass on a more calm voice, as soon as he heard the princess tone of voice, he was a little bit more relieved, the last thing he needs is a horde of creatures on his tail because of Luna strong pipes.

“My humble apologies, Stormy.” she said, apologizing to her guard. “But I am not used to be summoned like that. Not many ponies have the magic that you just showcased.”

“Woah woah woah, slow down a minute, one, you know my name?, and second, I just found this book here at the Archives, what magic are you talking about?” Stormy questioned a little confused of what magic Luna was talking about.

“Well that is something we can discuss later.” she said calmly, her tone of voice reflected the care she has for her guards. “I'm more interested in knowing about the situation.”

“I’m a little skeptical on the detail as well.” Stormy said, as any other guard would do, he started to report what he has found out so far to Luna. “From what I have gathered, Cantelot is completely covered in some kind of thick fog that prevents teleportation of any kind, half of the city is falling off the cliff, and there is monsters roaming everywhere, and they are not precisely peaceful.”

“That is impossible! Our sister could've tell us about this” Luna said in shock.

“Ooooh trust me Luna, this is very real.” he said as he took a moment to sit down.

Luna did bring up a point, why Celestia hasn’t appeared?, or even tried to contact him?, is almost like Luna and Stormy are alone so far, well, besides Stormy little brother that is, the glow on the ocarina seems to blink, unaware to the stallion, he was using to much magic to keep the link active he took a quick look on the song page just to confirm his suspicion, and sadly for him, it was true, as long as the instrument glows, it will use the user magic to keep the communication up.

“All I know is that Twilight and Pinkie were helping me with some personal issues, I felt unconscious, and woke up here, you have no idea what I have passed from the Elements of Harmony wing to the Archives,” he said giving a nervous laugh.

“I can imagine, though.” she said, her voice was a little lower. “It hasn't been easy for me neither.”

“Where are you exactly?, I’m heading towards Canterlot Castle, if I can make it alive that is” Stormy said, worried about his current situation.

“Canterlot Castle?” her voice now seemed to express relief. “Then I could appreciate your assistance here.”

“By the sound of your voice I take it you are also in the castle, word of advice, stay clear of the windows, there is a creature that took my sword and is able to fly out there” Stormy felt that it was necessary to prevent the princess about the Skeletal Mare.

“Thanks for the advice. I'll take care of myself in the meantime.” Luna said with total confidence in her abilities.

“Ok, if i get into issues i will sing the song again,” he said with great relief in his voice.

The glow on the ocarina faded completely and Stormy could felt the backslash of the song, a little pain on his head, he was getting dizzy, he lost grip of his instrument, as it hit the ground, he tried to grab the edge of the bookshelf where the Harmony Book was, but he left himself go and lay on the ground a moment to catch his breath. He looked at the book on the floor next to him and his eyes focused on the page next to the Winds of Friendship song, he ended up finding something he overlooked on his rush to contact the princess.

“Final Warning, If this is your first time playing this songs, make sure you are in top shape, otherwise you will be unable to use magic for a full day, as the songs of this book take great amount of magic, remember, the more you practice, the less magic you will use in each song” that was the words on the last page.

“Oh For Celestia´s plot!, NOW are you telling me?” he yelled angry, as he picked the book and threw it to the wall.

He could not believe it!, his only means of defense so far was his magic, but now he cannot use it until 24 hours had passed?!, he had to read that damn book, but the good news at least is he manage to contact the princess, and knowing that she is alright is all that matters at the moment, now with his duty at ease, he can now focus on searching for clues about his brother, as well to find way he can use to recover his magic before the 24 hours, he walked to the book again, he was thinking he did not needed it anymore, however, something at the back of his mind told him it was better to keep it.

“Wait a second, why don’t-” He pondered for a moment. “-I keep it?, There must be a reason I managed to play the song”

He closed the book and place it inside of his saddle bags. He walked to the door and open it, but the radio started to emit a sound as soon as he reached the hallway, the creatures were coming, the problem was, from where?, the only light to allow him to see was from the room where the book was, being without magic didn’t helped things either, he could fight with his bare hooves? He could yeah, if he could see where his attacker was, he returned to the room where he took the book and started to move a big bookshelf next to the door, he pushed blocking the exit, as he took a moment to breathe, a loud hit against the wooden door was heard, the monsters were trying to took the door down.

“Crap, I feel like a pony lost in the middle of a changeling nest, come on there must be another way out of here!” he said to himself, looking around the room.

There has to be a way out of there, he noticed one of the windows could be opened, he did not wanted to do that, but he cannot afford to be picky, he opened the window, the radio still emitted a little static indicating the creatures distances, he carefully looked outside as another crash on the door could be heard. Between the dense fog he could see that the window below the one he opened was broken, what a stroke of luck, it was the room where he was attacked by the Skeletal Mare, he carefully held himself in the edge of the window, trying to touch the 3F broken window with his back hooves, he could hear another bang followed by books falling, indicating the creatures had entered the room, he let himself go closing his eyes, he felt as he went down to the 3F.

Just in time he placed his hooves on the edge of the 3F window, and put all his strength to get himself inside the room, the box of the First Aid Kit was still there, but now that the 4F is out of question, he will need to explore the second floor and then proceed to the main door, he quickly galloped full speed towards the exit, and moved to the stairs, he was careful enough like to go down the stairs quickly to get to the second floor, once there, he guided himself with the light that came from the Starswhirl the Bearded Wing, as well as the lit torches.

As he passed thought the wing, he noticed several scrolls on the floor, he could check them yes, but he was still hearing a little static coming from that room, better not take any chances, he continue to walk until he found the Lobby Door, a big door that leads towards the Lobby in the second room, from there you could go to the main reception and of course the main wing in the first floor, where the exit door was. But the place was still dark, as Stormy was going down to the reception, he noticed the radio making more static, he got alarmed and galloped towards the Main Entrance, as he went down the stairs and reached the door to open it, the static seems to lower a little, the door however, didn’t budge even a inch, he was trapped.

“Oh great!, I’m without magic, no weapons to defend myself, and the main exit do not open, can this get any worse?” he said tired, trying to take little breaths.

He tried searching with his hooves near the doorknob for a place where he could place the Custodian Badge, but the door did not had any slot for the badge, if was almost as if.

“It is magically sealed, crap.” Stormy facehoof himself.

There has to be something else on the main reception he can use, he took a quick look, on the reception desk there was a little oil lantern, very old, with a little valve to increase or decrease the light, he turn it on, it provided enough light for him to see the place, but not enough to cover the whole area of course, without his magic this is better than nothing.

Holding the lantern with his mouth, he tried to find the creature responsible for his alarm, all he could see was books, books everywhere, the static of the radio was starting to sound more and more closer, however, it was not loud as with the monsters, Stormy was slowly walking backwards until he touched the wooden doors with his butt, he heard a sound of a door unlocking, it was the door that lead to the main wing Reading Room, curious but cautious, he got closer to the reading room, when he reached the door, some voices alerted him of a presence, he turn around to see where did the voices came from, they came from the front desk where he got the lantern, but what he was not expecting, is that the one making the noise.

“Excuse me, the Guard´s Code book?” said the voice of a very young colt. The foal body had some old bloodstains in his broken cyan suit.

“Yeah, is in the Reading Room, hold on a minute,” said the voice of an elder mare that was attending the reception, a soft unlocking sound was heard. “Is open now.”

“Thanks,” replied the little colt, running towards Stormy direction.

“Hey… shouldn't you see a doctor for those?” said the mare referring to the little colt bloodstained clothes.

“Oh This?, don't worry, it is already dried up,” said the colt as he galloped to the reading room.

It was him!, him from his fillyhood, and the ghost mare, it was the receptionist at the time, why did the radio reacted from ghost?, could it be…. a memory… his own memory?, what in the hay was happening?, the ghost passed right through Stormy and entered the reading room, all this situation was making him more and more confused, how in the name of Equestria can he see his own memories? Either way, he felt that he needs to check the reading room, so he walked towards that room.

It was a very wide room with several desk, most of them have the same type of lantern he was using, the books opened up in the tables were old and dusty, others were so old that the words are illegible and turned to be impossible to read, he noticed his own ghost sitting in the farthest bench of the room, next to the window, but when he came closer, the ghost disappeared… he placed the lantern on the desk, there was a book that was already half way read, it seems to be the Guard´s Code, he read the words written in them.

“And so the laws written by the ancient guards are clear, the Lunar and Solar Guards will defend the princesses with their life, however, the guard should never look to the princess with non-servant eyes, being in love with the princess you sworn to protect will be consider an act of betrayal having no other choice out of it than death, as punishment for their sins,” that was written on the book.

“I remember this… when I was a little filly I always loved the moon more that the sun, I tried to join the Lunar Guards to meet the princess “Stormy smiled when he remembers that. “kind of selfish really, since my first day of work, all I could think was.”

Stormy could not finish his sentence, because as soon as he finished reading the book, a siren at the distance sounded, the light outside started to dim, as the night, or the shadows in this case, took over the place, Stormy did not felt fear, since he was more that used to the night, but why the Princess was sending the night right now?, he could not contact her to ask, he placed his hoof in complete confidence on the table, but he felt his hoof passing through the table, afraid, he looked at the table, and it was shattering, no, not shattering, it was more like if the whole place was changing to a twisted version of itself.

The usual white and purple color of the walls was cracking and moving upwards, discovering that underneath the usual walls, a kind of yellowish and red paint was painted, the tables were replaced by metal fence tables, some of the wood for the chairs also was getting transformed, and the red carpet on the floor started to have holes in it, Stormy quickly picked up the lamp before the same effect happened on it, he saw the book slowly turning old, as is time itself on the place was accelerating, the lanterns shattering, except for the one he picked up, and the painting on the back of the room, started to deteriorate, for once in his life… he was scared of the night.

“Ok…now im definitely dreaming, and is not a pleasant dream.” He said, holding the lantern with his hoof.

When the siren stopped, so did the transformation, the floor was very cracked, as if anypony hasn't lay a hoof in a long time, he walked slowly on the floor, hopping it will not break, he was relieved to find that, it did not shattered, it was capable enough to withstand his weight, there was nothing he could get in that room, so he exited and returned to the Reception, it was all twisted over, the bookshelves were on the floor and several old and illegible books were lying there, he tried to open the door again, but the doorknob felt down.

“One thing was being trapped on the archives, another one completely different is being trapped in a hell version of it!” he yelled, annoyed.

With the Archives changed, now he has to be extra careful, as the places he visited previously, might have also changed, and putting in it bluntly, he was now in unfamiliar ground.