Cydonia rises into the air, almost in response to that question. She was wearing a saddle with a few strange canisters and devices attached to it. As she flies over the chaos below, she looks to the others. "We need to regain our lost power. I require my weapons, that is easy. The difficulty will be removing the rings from Plague and Dark." She stated. "I know of somepony that could help. We would only need a decent payment." Her face falls from a confident grin to a serious glare. "How familiar are you with the stories of the Soul Thief?"
“The Soul Thief.....” Plague said thinking through his memories “I have heard rumours and stories, so I know a small bit of information about the Soul Thief?” he said. “And for the currency to pay, there are wallets that have fallen all over the place. I doubt they would come back to them anytime soon.” He then noticed Dark holding a piece of Luna’s mane. “Great work Dark. Even through the rest of the Royal Family isn’t a top priority, she had potential as a great leader. I only care about Celestria, she’s on the top of my list. It’s understandable that she would have fled as soon as fighting broke out, but I don’t want her alive or her being in hiding. Did you happen to see her Dark?” His facials turned from in a pleasant mood to a deadly stare. It’s important that you don’t lie to me; you don’t want to know what happened to liars in my dimension....” Plague said coldly.
"I can easily get the money in a snap. Like Plague said, its literally laying on the ground waiting to be picked up, I already stole a few." Faux tossed three wallets each with bits inside towards Cydonia. "Good start right?"
"Great... let's hope i never have to doubt you again Dark." Plague said. He wondered around the streets checking on the arrival of anymore law enforcement and the arrival of Celestia's newest student, Twilight Sparkle and her friends to see why parts of Canterlot have gone up in smoke. "Well... the book worm isn't here yet, so that's a start. I don't think i could take her at this moment, i had used most of my current magic on that guard." Plague said.
Among all the fighting and chaos no-pony noticed a black and shining white maned alicorn bidding his time in the background. Heretic watched as the fighting unfurled infront of him. He saw the others and noticed how they started it all, he too wanting the same. Heretic approached Cydonia from the shadows, his bright glowing white eyes showing his presence. "Well seems to me i'm not the only one seeking revenge on Celestia." Heretic revealed himself to the group as he spoke. (Sorry it took me so long to finally join the RP everypony, I have a blog about what happened.....losing family is hard =/............anywho, sigh* hope you don't mind me joining now. I'll understand if it's too late.)
"Seeing as I'm probably going to be in charge of ponyville when we split Equestria. Leave me to handle the other five. Anyway shouldn't we check the hall of the elements. Corrupt the elements, so in turn corrupt the six".
"Element corruption..." Plague said. "It's always of an added bonus rather then a major focus, so this could help us get back on Celestia. But doing so would make her know that we are some of the driving force against her. We should just stay hidden for now while we get these rings off, i would corrupt her when we have the power to do so." Plague responded to Dark. He tried to launch one of his much more powerful spells but having no effect. "Nope, still nothing... let's just get these rings off."
Cydonia chuckles a little after listening to the conversation. "Good. Really...Corruption of The Elements..." She shakes her head as she flies. "All your doing is delaying the inevitable. I just shoot them. All that magic stuff is superstitious idiocy when you can just deal with the issue at hand. Besides, in my experience, the sort of pony that stands in your way are practically blessed." She she sighs and changes the subject: "The Soul Thief is expensive. There's every chance mere bits will not be enough but she will be able to point us in the right direction."
Faux shrugged and took the 3 full wallets back "Guess ill hold onto these!" She slip the bits inti her bag, "so what type of payment are we talking about?"
"Then im sure she accepts Jem's and Diamonds. There is supposed to be some place in Equestria which has alot of them and that the extremely wealthy ones are collected and are inside some fashion store in Ponyville owned by somepony named Rarity... I think Rarity is her name, isnt it?" Plague asked Cydonia. He looked at the Royal Castle, where he seen a shadow of Celestria ordering guards to go down to the rest of the city. "We better go..."
"but what about the royal vault. the biggest storage place for gems, bits and documents. oh yeah, Celestia". he then turned around struggling to fly with the clamps. "anyone fancy travelling with portals, although with this clamp I can only go as far as halfway between here and ponyville. so watch out for trains".
"Doesn't Portals affect your state of mind, changes it from within until not nothing is left but insanity." Plague asked as he was flying into the air, maintaining some control with the clamps around his wings. "I have known several unfortunate wizards century's ago who had discovered this power and were driven to suicide from overuse. I think that if you have a strong will, you can overcome this. Yet.... i could be mistaken" Plague then looked at Cydonia nearby him. "So the Soul Thief is extremely expensive, hidden somewhere and is the only one who could get these rings off.... why cant i go anywhere nice." Plague joked at the end.
Cydonia stops and circles around to face the group. She hovers there looking to each of them, sternly. "Pulling out money and riches could not be enough. The Soul Thief has enough money from her trade to by a palace. I can't guarantee gems or simple wealth with tempt her. We need something she couldn't get her hooves on. Something unique and valuable. Something rare and desirable to her." She told them. "Do any of you have any idea what that could be?"
"the magic element?" Faux guessed, she figured she was way off but it was worth a shot. "or maybe any of the elements?"
"The elements might be the question to our answer, but that might be not the right answer in the first place." Plague thought to himself for a few moments before coming up with an answer. "There must surely be something that she wants... like a rare artifact like an old book or a necklace, What about those?"
"perhaps the Canterlot libraries underground archive will be of use. If the thief wants ancient and valuable first editions, ancient and banned spell books and scrolls. I might even grab myself a thing from there. Better to be a knowledgeable fighter than a barbaric brute".
Cydonia glares at Dark. She really glares at the Alicorn for what he said, like he'd threatened to kick her Mother. "Are you determined to kill us?" She snarls, she points to the rings on his horn. "That is making you weak. We cannot and should not enter Canterlot while we are here. The Royal sisters have access to creatures that can render even an Alicorn's powerful magic to naught. Get it through your skull that Canterlot is off limits." Her expression softens, slightly. "As for her payment, I have no idea. In the past, she has been content to travel with me and gain her payment from whatever I find. Perhaps a similar deal can be had. We had best talk to her unless anypony else has any bright ideas?"
Talking to her might help us negotiate a deal for her payment, and let's just say that im more then willing to do anything for this dreaded ring to be removed." Plague said to Cydonia. Plague then stopped for a few seconds to get his bearings, it has been a while since he has been able to fly. Most of the time, he would just teleport and deal with any sort of problem by using his magic. Unfortunately, magic was off limits at the moment. Before his capture, Plague was imprisoned inside his own dimension custom made just for his liking. There, he lead a surprisingly fascist nation where Alicorn's were the master race and that every other race were temporary slaves until Plague could bring up a resurrection spell for bringing Alicorns back to life. With Plague's god like power and his added bonus of being a Ardak Luvanius allowed him to achieve the imposable, such as creating life and literally obliterating entire cities. Plague thought about his accomplishments, such as destroying the entire Zebra fleet over the ocean when he was 15, a feat that made the Royal Family and almost his entire race tremble in fear. If he were to expose himself to Celestia again, she would be the one delivering the final blow and not himself. So he binded his time, waiting for the chance to take what is rightfully his, The Throne. And he wasnt going to let anypony stand in his way, and was willing to wipe out the Celestian Dynasty to achieve that.
Dark had slight suspicions about everyone but his pupiless eyes made it hard for them to tell. He just wanted redemption not war or grief. Plus he didn't want his past as a Arvak Solaris to come to light. So at least that was an upside to no pupils.
