Diary entry number 95

I woke up to the sounds of battle. Which is basically just screaming and clashing metal. I am also going to take this moment to remind myself that Magic, At least unicorn magic is not loud. it is very quiet, if even perceivable.

Not having much to do other than sit in my cell and wait I waited for the prison guard to kill them

Before coming down to tell me that my little escape attempt was worthless.

though I do suppose if it was by my hand somehow it would have been Sun Drop which means the guard would have died.

though Sundrop is not the one who came to me. it was in fact the guard who was crawling on his belly slowly Bleeding Out. I was expecting his murderers to be following after him, but no it was just him and the keys on his hip. and then he oh so conveniently died right in front of my cell within my reach. Anticipating this was a trap or test conceived by the devious mind of Celestia I waited for half an hour instead of going for the keys right away. Waiting for the guards to come shutting down the hallway and tell the Gard in front of me to get up and get back to his post. Oddly enough they never came and after half an hour of watching this dude I realized he wasn't just good at faking his death he was actually dead.

because even if he was breathing slowly or shallow I would have noticed eventually and there's no way he held his breath for half an hour.

I thought about the possibility of him having a spell on him that puts him in a near death state But either way I should at least check his pulse.

So I get up and reach my arms through the bars up to my shoulder so I can at least pull him closer.

Did I mention these Ponies are heavy?

After pulling him close enough I put my fingers at the front of his throat and find the tube that is his esophagus and run my fingers to the side of that what is effectively the corner between his esophagus and his neck muscles we're a major artery is usually at and felt for a pulse.

Another half a minute later of feeling a Cold neck that's only getting colder and finding no pulse whatsoever, I reach for his keys and pull them off his belt and release myself from my cell.

I checked the prison guard one more time just to make sure he ain't faking it somehow.

And eventually came to the realization I probably just let someone die in front of me because I didn't want to play a game of wits against Celestia.

Walking through the now sticky blood I lift this soldier's helmet from his head and intend to use it as an impromptu blocker for whatever bladed weapon the prison guard was stabbed with.

A couple moments later When I begin walking through the marble halls of the palace I'm cursing to myself for stepping in the the blood cuz now every step I take there's a sticking sound that sounds like I've got honey on the soles of my shoes, not to mention the trail that I'm leaving behind me.

Though at this point I'm more worried about the lack of soldiers in this area and why I hadn't found Sundrop in one of the cells that I passed.

With every sticky step I take I become more Aware of how vulnerable I currently am.

No overpowered bodyguard no, Tech that's basically Magic, and not even a melee weapon.

Maybe I should have kept my pocket knife in that little pocket in my boxer briefs that's supposed to be used to create an opening to pee.

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And where the hell are all the guards. I thought they were supposed to be found guarding every freaking door in the castle.

Or is the Royal Guard a lot more selective than I thought?

I spent another hour or so just wandering the Halls because there's no freaking Directions and this place is harder to navigate than a hospital.

Thankfully the sticky eventually wore off and I no longer left a trail of bloody Footprints everywhere I went.

I did however eventually find a trail of bodies I could follow.

I tried to scavenge some weapons off of them but they were Wing blades and spiked horseshoes. Neither are something that I as a human can use.

Though I did take the shin guards off of a higher ranked guard because it was a bit more practical than a helm.

No, the other guards did not have shin guards, they had Horseshoes that wrapped up around the front of their hooves.

Another hour of tracking through the hallways with the occasional dead body of a royal guard later and I find the amount of bodies increase from one every 80 ft to something more resembling a breadcrumb trail.

That led me around the corner to where I could see a small pile of bodies in front of the throne room door.

I do happen to notice that one of the Dead guards is a unicorn that had a sword laying nearby.

I suppose using telekinesis to swing a piece of metal around is cheaper than creating a blade out of pure Magic.

Though I didn't like the sword all that much, the balance was in the middle of the blade instead of at the hilt where it was supposed to be.

And it didn't help that the blade had a slight warp in it.

Sneaking my way past the bodies I eventually make it to the throne room door and the red carpet that would have led me right out of the castle.

I would have walked right out without giving it a single thought if I didn't smell an intense ozone and hear a magical spell idling in the throne room.

So instead of walking out into the middle of the carpet and turning my back to whatever potential danger there was I peeked through the gap between the door frame and the hinges to look upon the scene.

Luna was unconscious underneath a marble pillar and Celestia was in the middle of the room in a magic circle that happened to be black with her legs Wings horn and tail being held down by black tendrils.

In front of her stood a freaking Mind flayer (basically a small Cthulhu) And Sundrop.

No, I didn't feel betrayed immediately.

In fact I felt more curious about why I wanted to feel betrayed and angry at her.

I could feel the fuzz in my mind… Actually no it wasn't that, it was almost natural.

but I did consciously notice that I had a hard time focusing on remembering what a Mind flayer was at the time.

Like every time I tried to remember what it was I got frustrated and angry at Sundrop.

But I just redirected my attention at the Mind flayer until I could remember what it was and that it's specialty was fucking with people's brains.

I take one more look at the scene in front of me.

Sundrop with her back to me, the Mind flare moving about his hands as if he was in the middle of a monologue, Luna trapped underneath a marble pillar while unconscious, And Celestine in the middle of what I'm assuming was a powerful illusion.

I start walking around the door to head into the throne room but before I enter potential visibility I turn my head to the hall behind me that led outside. It was night time, and I could even see the city going on as if nothing was happening.

I could have probably just walked out but that was a long length of hallway with little to no cover.

It was smarter to sneak up into the room and stab the thing in the back.

Though while I thought about it, the further I got away the smaller I would have appeared And thus easier for me to sneak away.

…Nah fuck living. I waited for an opportune moment for when the Mind flare was done walking around Celestia and had his back towards the door again and looked like he was finishing up his monologue with the increasingly dramatic hand movements.

So making sure I stepped on the carpet and not any dead bodies that happened to be there I rushed up the middle of the throne room as the mine flour was slowly raising his hands like he was approaching the end of the climax and shoved this warped blade through his chest and let him stand there dramatically for a moment before he slowly turned around and looked at me.

I wasn't risking it. I took the blocker and smacked him in the face with it while simultaneously pulling out my sword.

and then I promptly cut his head off just to be sure.