No One's P.O.V

To avoid talking to Kelsey, Celia stayed awfully close to Glitz who was leading the way to the end of Springfields. Kelsey was walking in the back with the other guards while Written Script and Zephyr flew high in the air. Oh, how the green mare wished she could fly too. What made it more awkward was that Glitz hadn't said a word since they left. He seemed fairly stressed and Celia wanted to ask about it but she still couldn't bring herself to say anything because all she could think about was Kelsey following behind her. Celia certainly regretted telling Kelsey anything. If she had just kept her mouth shut, the two would be chatting away while walking. But the whole walk was filled with silence aside from Written Script and Zephyr's voices from above. They were too high up to be able to hear anything, but it was clear they were having a conversation meanwhile, the ponies on the ground walked in complete silence. And when you singled out all of the guards, it would be just Celia and Kelsey.

Glitz had noticed the lack of conversation between Kelsey and Celia but he was too stressed out about everything to even sit down and chat with the two. Since the party, things have seemed off, but it was their problem and he just simply couldn't be the one to solve it. He barely talked to them. He just wanted to speak with his friend. She was not thinking straight and was doing everything out of panic. And that's why they're in this situation now. He didn't mean to blame Abohaty completely because he knew how Nom Nom was, but that wasn't an excuse to act the way she had been acting. He loved Abohaty with his heart but the way she kept so much from him didn't sit right with him. She didn't even inform him that she had a fiancée. Not that she was obligated to of course, but she used to tell him everything. Even things that weren't work-related. He didn't want to be judgmental about the whole coltfriend straight-to-engagement thing, but he did have questions considering it was nothing like Abohaty to randomly marry a fancy wealthy colt.

Once the ponies reached the other side of Springfields, Zephyr and Written Script flew back down to the ground and landed on their hooves, so they would be able to get out of the vines. Flora hadn't closed that specific side completely yet, so all nine ponies went through one by one. When everypony came through, Glitz spoke up.

"Abohaty has run away and we need to find her quickly before something goes down at the kingdom or she gets hurt...or both." Glitz looked to the side a bit. "She said she was going to Amirah's liar, but I highly doubt so because she'd be too scared to go alone at this point. She's out somewhere out here in the woods hiding."

"The woods are huge though, how do we expect to find her in a short amount of time?" Zephyr asked. Glitz pulled out a large item using his mouth. he dropped it onto the ground and then picked it up with his left hoof. He pressed the button to turn it on and blue light shot from out the top, making a loud noise. The light made a pathway for the ponies to follow. "Wait you guys have a pony tracker?"

"Just me. Because it uses up a lot of energy and power, it's best to use it only for emergencies, like this one." The ponies begin following the blue light to wherever it took them. But thankfully not too far. The light guided them to a large opening in the woods, where Abohaty sat. Glitz handed the tracker to one of the guards behind him and signaled for everypony to stay put.

Glitz only brought himself forward to check on Abohaty. She barely budged, nor looked up to see who was coming over.

"Go away," she sneered.

"It's nice to see you too, Princess." Glitz sat down beside his friend who faced the other way immediately.

"If you're here to bring me back to the kingdom, I'm not going back. I can't do it," she cried.

"Princess, I don't think either of us has much of a choice. I understand all of this is hard for you, but you can't just run away from all of your problems. That's not right. Your kingdom is in danger and you have everypony else doing something but yourself. Your parents wouldn't like nor want that for you. You're better than that Abohaty, and I know you know that." Abohaty did not respond. She sat in silence, hoping this would make Glitz just leave. She had made her decision, and now she was sticking with it. She was absolutely nothing without her parents or Nom Nom. She was a failure since her parents were murdered cold on the bedroom floor. She was never suited to be a princess, why did she out of all ponies have to be chosen? She was supposed to be the princess of happiness, but she couldn't recall the last time she's truly been both happy and stress-free.

Suddenly a loud noise emerged from behind the two friends and the ground began to rumble. Out of bodyguard reflex, Glitz grabbed onto the Princess' hoof and pulled her away from where the sound came from. He pulled his sword out, ready for battle. "Show yourself!!" he yelled frantically, walking in front of the Princess. The other four guards in the back ran to his assistance.

An evil chuckle came from behind the bushes. It only took a few seconds for the tall pink pony to reveal herself.

"How adorable of you to protect your pretty little princess when I could easily just knock the five of you out in one go." Queen Amirah began pacing around slowly in circles. "I wouldn't want to traumatize the Princess yet again. It seems like she's already been through enough." The way the Queen said everything caused shivers down each ponies' spines. Everypony feared her, including the guards because they never knew what would be her next moves, and who was her next target. She always talked about death, but nothing happens until you least expect it. "But I don't really care. It's not like anypony ever cared about my feelings, so why should I care about yours?" Queen Amirah blasted through her horn. The guards were too slow to react but the Princess was not. She placed a pink shield in front of the four guards and Amirah's power backfired into a tree. This caused the tree to fall slowly and Amirah teleported out of the way. Zephyr grabbed Kelsey and flew her into the air and Written Script did the same with Celia and the guards on the ground split separately, trying to avoid the falling tree. Glitz made sure he had Abohaty with him at all times. He ran behind a tree and both of them watched as it fell with a loud bang.

Amirah took this as her chance to zap one of the ponies in the sky, and it ended up being Zephyr. She hit him on his hoof, causing him to drop Kelsey, and then hit him on his wing, making him fall with her. Written Script immediately flew back to the ground with Celia to check if the two were okay since they both fell from a pretty high distance. Kelsey had fallen hard onto the ground and failed to land on her hooves. Zephyr ended up falling just as hard but was in even more pain due to the injuries on his wing and hoof. He was bleeding out pretty badly so the guards rushed to his assistance, ignoring Kelsey. Written Script assumed that Kelsey was okay so she rushed over to Zephyr as well. Kelsey got up as if nothing happened, but it was still clear that she was badly hurt, just no blood. Celia slowly walked over to her.

"You ok-" Celia was interrupted by a loud zap and screams.

After Glitz and Abohaty heard the same thing, they ran from behind the tree to see what happened. Abohaty flew over the fallen tree and Glitz climbed quickly to catch up with her. When he noticed that she wasn't moving any further he looked down and his heart almost dropped. No pony was to be seen except for Amirah standing over Zephyr. Glitz was tugged back down by the other guards.

"We don't have enough ponies to fight her off. She already killed one!" One of the guards told him. Glitz's eyes widened.

"He's dead?!" The guard nodded.

"She struck him a second time, and he was done for."

"Your majesty, what are you doing?!" Glitz heard another guard call out. He turned his head around so fast and stepped right into action. Abohaty wasn't standing on the tree anymore. Instead, she flew herself onto a tree branch and shut her eyes tight. Clouds began to form while the nature around began growing rapidly. The trees, flowers, and grass grew high. Vines wrapped around the queen's hooves and her eyes went into hallucination when smiley flowers appeared. The guards began pushing the other ponies down a pathway that directed them back to Springfields. Glitz looked between both the Queen and Princess in panic while Zephyr laid still beneath the queen. He noticed how the queen's eyes went in and out of hallucination which did not seem normal to Glitz, but the Princess wasn't noticing this because her eyes were shut the whole time. That's when his eyes caught the attention of a diamond on Amirah's head. Now he hadn't seen the Queen other than in the images of her from stories in the libraries, but he knew her having a diamond did not seem right. Especially when the diamond looked extremely similar to Nom Nom's in a way. The diamond began glowing and before he knew it, he was grabbing Abohaty's tail, messing up her concentration. She fell off of the branch and into Glitz's hooves. The ground rumbled beneath them and cracks began to form. Glitz looked up to see an incoming rock avalanche. Immediately, he got up and took Abohaty by the hoof and began running in the opposite direction which only lead them farther away from Springfields. The other ponies had already left, and he hoped that they would make it out of the forest safe on their own with the guards.

Abohaty tried to teleport themselves, but she couldn't teleport them far. She fell to the ground panting heavily. Glitz looked around at the new environment.

"Where are we?" Abohaty looked up as well, noticing the strange place she teleported both of them in.

"It looks like we're close to her lair, if you ask me," the Princess answered. Glitz panicked.

"Why, would you teleport us here?!" he yelled.

"I swear, it was going to be back to the kingdom! My magic i-it's broken!" Abohaty stopped talking when she saw Glitz sit down on the ground. Her eyes saddened and tears started to well up. "I mean it Glitz, this wasn't supposed to happen, everything is just going left and I'm not sure what to-"

"Amirah has Nom Nom's diamond." Was all the stallion said. Abohaty wiped her eyes with her hoof.

"W-What...?"

"It was planted on her head. Like how Nom Nom originally wore it." Abohaty felt like she was going to collapse, but she still kept talking.

"But...it doesn't just come off of Nom Nom's head. Y-You actually have to rip it out..." Glitz nodded sadly, realizing what this meant.

Nom Nom wasn't as important to him, but he did understand how much she meant to her. Nom Nom was basically her second mother who grew up with her. So Abohaty loosing both of her caregivers completely was a lot to handle. But just because Nom Nom didn't have her diamond anymore doesn't mean she's not alive. But badly injured? Yes. But knowing Queen Amirah, it was a high possibility the cat was completely gone. But he didn't want to tell her that, he just assumed that's what Abohaty had came to a conclusion with because she was crying silently.

Glitz sighed and walked up to his friend slowly. He wrapped a hoof around her head and let her cry it all out. They weren't loud obnoxious sobs, they were quite the opposite. Quiet whimpers with heavy tears running down her face. Nom Nom's diamond probably wasn't the only thing she was crying about right now. He didn't bother asking because he already knew that her being a princess forced into becoming a queen at a young age with no parents was probably extremely difficult. He's heard about the times where Abohaty would tell him how she doesn't get to live a normal life because all she does is work and train. She barely gets to see her friends, and she even told him how she now doubts her friendships with some of them. He never told her, but the times he'd be off duty and hanging out with her friends, they'd make backhanded comments about Abohaty and it's usually about how she barely sees them; in which she told them several times why she can barely visit.

Glitz had noticed his friend's crying calmed down and slowly removed his hoof from her. "Do you think m-maybe we could rescue Dusk Shine?" Glitz's eyes widened. "Maybe he's still alive. Amirah only works by herself, and since she's not here yet, maybe we-"

"That's insane Abohaty. It can't be that easy!" Glitz tried to tell her. "Besides, it's just us two!"

"But we'd be fighting no pony. She doesn't have an army, just herself!"

"What if that changed?!" Glitz argued.

"Then she would be sending her army out first, not herself!" Glitz sighed.

"Please Glitz! I can't lose Dusk Shine too! He is just as important as me when it comes down to our kingdom!!" Glitz sucked his teeth and looked up at the large lair. He didn't want Abohaty to get hurt, but she was right about Dusk Shine being important to the kingdom. So he had no other choice but to go with her.

Everywhere she goes, he goes.

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