No One's P.O.V

Bookworm, Stormy, Cloudy, and Gabe all sat at the long table. Cloudy was finished with what she had to do, so she decided to be a part of the ongoing investigation. Lastly, they had four guards attend the meeting in replacement for the rest of the high commission Gabe was currently speaking his thoughts aloud to the ponies in the room.

"I think that a rat is running around in the kingdom. And the only thing we know for sure is that the rat is a unicorn." Both Cloudy and Stormy took a glance at one another knowing that the other two ponies in the high commission were unicorns. "because if you think about it, no outsider is allowed inside unless escorted by another guard. But even so, the princess wasn't here that day for there to even be visitors. The cameras in the security room have been switched around, and that cannot be done without magic."

"The cameras were showing Nom Nom and Dusk Shine over a fire, about to lose their lives," Bookworm added in.

"And that gives us a good idea that they are with Queen Amirah at the moment, but Queen Amirah was not in the kingdom, she must have some pony else in the kingdom to do the dirty work for her," Gabe explained. One of the guards came forward and spoke up.

"I think this is important to add, but I also heard from Glitz Abohaty's things have been taken. Valuables such as her crown and spell book."

"Yeah, then it was definitely Queen Amirah getting someone to do her evil doings," Gabe murmured. "I also would like to add on to why I believe a unicorn has done this. Now that I know Abohaty's things have been taken, it's likely they used their horn to get inside. But they also used their horn to get rid of the evidence. It does not matter if these guards were killed in front of her room or outside. I would assume it was in front of her room, but regardless, since it was two strong advanced guards. I cannot imagine an earth pony easily taking the sword out of the guard's hoof without the other quickly doing something. The same goes for a pegasus. When you have magic, you can do much more." Gabe began listing the possible things that could've happened. "Levitation, teleportation, freezing, and so much more! But the main point I have to empathize with is that Crimson and Dapper were teleported outside. How would they be able to leave the building dead? Let alone alive too because they're not allowed to leave Abohaty's room unsupervised."

"He has a point..." Stormy murmured.

"I need you guys to start listing every unicorn you know of who is always allowed to enter and leave the building without a guard. Unless you guys have guards who are unicorns...?" Bookworm said.

"No, just earth pony guards."

"This doesn't make sense though, the only ponies with horns who walk around are Flora, Flamora, Dusk Shine, and Abohaty but any of them possibly committing this crime wouldn't make any sense!" Cloudy cried. "Abohaty was off and Dusk Shine disappeared that exact day along with Nom Nom. Flamora and Flora couldn't have possibly done this...what would be their motive?"

"It's not about what ponies' motives are. It is possible that Queen Amirah either sent a pony out recently or a long time ago who you have begun to trust, she corrupted one of the unicorns, or she changed into one of them! We don't know her powers!" Bookworm yelled.

"Well let's break it down. I heard Dusk Shine is a little new, so we'll leave him out of the image. Have Flamora and Flora been acting different lately?"

"Not at all," answered Stormy. "Plus we were sort of with each other the entire day. The whole high commission. So I highly doubt it's one of us."

"How long has Dusk Shine been admitted to this kingdom?" Gabe asked.

"Certainly not for long. Nom Nom recently found him, but never told us where."

"That's already strange," Bookworm commented.

"Yeah, but isn't Dusk Shine tied up with Nom Nom currently?" Gabe asked Bookworm.

"What we saw on that camera does not mean it's real. It could be fake. Now that I think about it, I'm kind of leaning onto Dusk Shine. You have to remember Nom Nom is gone as well."

"Maybe the two got kidnapped together?" Stormy pointed out.

"Let me ask you guys something." Bookworm pushed up her glasses. "What do you know about this guy other than his name? I know he's new and Nom Nom found him, but do you guys know anything else?"

Cloudy and Stormy looked at each other and shook their heads no. "I'm am flabbergasted..." Bookworm admitted. "There is no way you guys admitted some random pony into the kingdom and you don't even know the basics about him. I will be fair and say it's not your fault because you didn't know, but I just can't believe how every pony here is letting a talking cat walk all over them. I'm starting to think Nom Nom is the fucking bad guy. Because what it sounds like is that you all do not communicate with each other meanwhile Nom Nom is rushing to make everything perfect herself. And since she's rushing she didn't even decide to do a background check on this stallion."

"If that's the case, then what Glitz told me at the gala was true. He said that Dusk Shine was being rude and aggressive with her for no reason. And how she never mentioned him once," Gabe added. "Is there like a reason Nom Nom keeps things from you guys?" Stormy shrugged.

"Honestly I wish I knew the reason. It's like we're nonexistent until she needs us to battle or something. We barely get to know the princess herself. We only get to see her during meetings and that's it. It's just constant overworking and training us every day. And no pony trains us. We train ourselves," Stormy said sadly.

"This is honestly so sad. I've never wanted to rule a kingdom so bad in my life until now," Bookworm commented. "Was it always this way? Please tell me no." Cloudy shook her head.

"Queen Deborah and King Dustin ruled at the time before they passed. Everything was fine before they were murdered. Ever since then, Nom Nom has changed into this frantic cat who needs everything to be perfect just because this has never happened before. And she's trying to avoid it from happening again, but is doing it in the wrong way."

"She didn't even give us a chance to recover from that day! Everypony had to suck it up and just get back to work as nothing happened," Stormy cried. Bookworm shook her head in disbelief. She side-eyed Gabe and put her voice to a whisper.

"Now I kind of feel bad about the things I said to Abohaty."

There was a knock on the wall and all the ponies turned their heads to see who it was. Grammar stood in the doorway with a smile on his face.

"Some of the ponies came back!" Grammar said in excitement. "I see them walking toward the kingdom!" His smile faded when he realized he came at a terrible time. One of the ponies with a gray coat was in tears and both Bookworm and Gabe looked shaken up completely like they were just told a horror story. "Sorry, I just thought you guys wanted to know..."

Grammar left the room and began heading back downstairs to the main entrance. He was excited to see Kelsey again and tell her about how cool it was to watch over the full kingdom. However, he didn't expect them all to be back so soon. He didn't even recall seeing Abohaty with them.

While waiting inside at the front door, Grammar saw a few paramedics rush out with a hospital bed. He raised his eyebrow in confusion.

Had somepony been hurt? He thought.

He decided it was best to simply wait to see who the paramedics brought back inside. And to his surprise, it was just Kelsey. His eyes widened in shock. "Wait, Kelsey!!" Grammar started running after her. When he asked the doctors what had happened, they shooed him away and continued walking. Grammar slowly came to a halt and watch them take away his friend. He then turned around to only see Celia, Written Script, and the few guards that came with them. He tried looking harder because he swear another pony walked with them. On top of that, his brother wasn't with them and neither was Abohaty, the one pony they were supposed to bring back. Grammar rushed over to Celia to get all the details of what happened. "Cece, what's going on? What happened to my brother? And Kelsey, why are they-"

"Amirah found us and attacked," Written Script said, answering before Celia could. "We did actually find Abohaty, but when we found her, Amirah found us and started to attack. Me and Zephyr wanted to help Cece and Kelsey off the ground since they were earth ponies but Amirah shot at Zephyr twice. Both of them fell pretty hard and got hurt."

"...And where is Zephyr? Kelsey's still here." Grammar asked, hoping the answer wasn't what he expected. Celia and Written Script gave each other a worried look before looking back at Grammar.

"He's dead." Grammar took one step back and took a deep breath. Celia continued. "He did survive the fall, but after the fall, Amirah just...finished him off." Grammar covered his mouth in horror. Now the image of Bella appeared in his head because he did hear something about how in love they were.

"So...who's gonna tell Bella...?" he asked.

"I don't know, but it's not gonna be me. I just can't." Written Script said.

"Yeah, but she's gonna realize we're back!" Celia told her.

"Well, eventually she'll realize what happened on her own. I'm sorry, I just can't be the one to tell her."

"What about my brother? Where is he?" His voice sounded like he was begging at this point. Grammar looked between their eyes frantically. Celia and Written Script's faces weren't helping him feel any better.

"Um...we thought they were behind us, I swear! But then there was a random avalanche, and we realized they didn't follow us, so..." Celia looked both ways before continuing. "...we think Queen Amirah has a hold of both of them or they ran a different direction away from the queen." Tears were forming in Grammar's eyes and Celia tried to reassure him by continuing, but her plan was failing. "I'm sorry Grammar, but the guards couldn't get back in touch with him. He must've dropped his walkie talkie while running away." Grammar took more deep breaths trying to slow down the racing thoughts in his head. Typically he always stayed positive through situations like these and crack jokes here and there, but no one knows where his brother could be and his best friend is injured badly. Now he wished he'd taken things more seriously before he left. Sure, he and his brother fought a lot, but he still cared dearly for him. All he had left was his big brother. He never thought about the risks Glitz had to take when he accepted to be Abohaty's royal guard.

"Grammar do you know where the other ponies are? I'm gonna ask to join them." Grammar nodded slowly and led the way to the meeting room. Written Script entered but he and Celia did not.

"You're not...?" Grammar tilted his head.

"I'm gonna go find Kelsey. I've been here with Abohaty before and I remember passing the emergency room." Celia told him. He nodded.

"I guess I'll come too...if that doesn't bother you." Celia turned her head.

"Huh?" Grammar glared at her.

"Isn't that what I always do to you? Bother whatever you and Kelsey have going on?" Celia shook her head.

"Grammar, no, you have it all wrong. I don't mind being around you!" She assured him.

"Yeah, until Kelsey joins and then you're all weirded out until I leave."

"No-"

"Yes! Everypony thinks I'm dumb, but I've noticed this happen so many times. I even asked Kelsey about it and she gets weirded out when I mention you! We've all been friends for so long, I'm starting to think I did something wrong!!" Celia's eyes became watery. This was not what she wanted to happen.

"Grammar just listen to me!" Grammar shut his mouth and looked up at the green coated mare. "You didn't do anything wrong. It's just me and my stupid feelings." Grammar raised a brow. "I caught feelings for Kelsey and I made our friendship weird and niether of us are talking to each other."

"Gay?"

"Grammar I'm fucking serious!" Celia shouted out of frustration. Bookworm came to the door and walked in between the two.

"I'm sorry if I'm interrupting....this, but we're trying to discuss a murder that's happened and you two are talking extremely loud. Could you discuss you and Kelsey's love story elsewhere?" Bookworm walked back inside and shut the door. Celia began walking away from the room and Grammar followed.

She said nothing else because she was now embarrassed enough. Pretty much everypony knew about her silly crush on Kelsey, and now friend group meetings will be awkward. At least Abohaty, Kat and Bella didn't hear anything yet. Thank god for Kat because Kat would end up telling everypony she knows!

"Sorry," Grammar apologized.

"It doesn't matter," she grumbled.

"...Does she know?" Celia stopped her tracks and looked at Grammar to see if he was being serious.

"What do you think Grammar?! Of course she fucking knows. I just told you we're not talking anymore! And it's all because of me and my big mouth."

"Hey, don't say that. Eventually the two of you will suck it up and start talking again. I mean you have to. You can't avoid each other forever. You two seemed really close, so it'd be weird if you didn't start talking again." Grammar said, walking down the halls with Celia.

"But it won't be the same, Grammar."

"Yes, it won't be the same if you both act that way. If Kelsey said that she doesn't like you back, you kind of have to respect that. The best both of you can do is just try continuing being the friends you were before," Grammar advised.

"What if my feelings don't ever fade?"

"You're gonna be stuck on the same pony forever?" Grammar frowned when Celia didn't respond back. "Well that's just an unfortunate problem you have to fix if you want to continue being Kelsey's friend."

They arrived at the doctor's office and stopped at the front desk. Celia tried her best to put a smile on her face while saying,

"Hi, I'm here to see Kelsey? If she's allowing visitors?" the nurse at the front desk smiled away.

"Sure thing! Can I get your name?"

"Celia and uh..." Celia turned to look at Grammar but he was no longer standing beside her. He was leaning against a wall with a small reassuring smile on his face. "You're not coming?"

"I feel like you need to speak to her more than I do. I can wait." He said. He then turned around and walked out of her sight. Celia panicked at first, but then realized the nurse was still waiting for her response.

"Oh uh, just me."

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