Can't Be Too Happy

13

No One's P.O.V

Once again, Celia ran into Glitz who was leaving the castle in a hurry.

"Glitz, please, wait up!" To her surprise, he stopped.

"What's wrong now?"

"I truly want to help Abohaty."

"Well, she's gone." Glitz began walking away.

"Wait, what do you mean?"

"She left," he answered vaguely.

"On her own?!"

"Tried to stop her, but I guess I wasn't trying hard enough." Celia ran in front of Glitz.

"We can go look for her!" she suggested.

"Who's we?"

"Our friend group! And you if you'd like to tag along."

"You should be worried about staying home."

"Well, if you don't care about her, you don't have to go, but I'm going!!" Glitz sighed heavily as she ran off out of sight. It wasn't that he didn't care for her; there was just nothing he could do about it. Going off to hunt her down would be just as bad as her leaving. All the rulers have either disappeared or left, and Springfields needed some pony to help keep the kingdom safely up and running. A guard tapped on his shoulder.

"Glitz, I think you should take a look at this." Glitz began to walk side by side with one of the fellow guards back towards the kingdom. "We couldn't find the princess and the high commission is busy so we thought we'd inform you instead."

"I have a feeling it's not good," he murmured.

"Unfortunately, you're right." The stallions walked until they reached the destination point. To Glitz's surprise, it wasn't too far from the castle.

"So, what's over here?" he asked. The guard nudged his head forward, indicating that Glitz should take a look for himself. And that's what he did. Glitz walked forward and looked behind a large bush. Two stallions lie on the ground covered in their blood. Those two stallions were Crimson and Dapper, the guards he and Abohaty were just looking for. "How did this happen?!" The guard shrugged.

"I just found them here today because I had a gut feeling that what I was smelling was a dead pony." Glitz sighed in defeat and looked back at the guard.

"I might have to go back to the entrance and bring Stormy here to investigate this." Glitz started preparing to run. "Stay here and watch the bodies. Stormy will be here soon."

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Celia had gone to Bella's home so it would be easier to call over her friends. She knew Springfields was on lockdown, and possibly the other places too, but it wouldn't hurt to try.

Bella was home chilling with her boyfriend Zephyr on the couch when Celia came. While Zephyr was sleeping, the two girls managed to get in contact with everypony to meet up at the entrance of Springfields and how they all should come together. Friends from Ponyvillle will arrive together, as well as friends from Canterlot. And because there was at least one pony in both places who had a horn, it would be easier to teleport instead. Just inside of Springfields because their magic wouldn't be strong enough to get through Flora's vines.

Celia headed for the door when she felt ready to go back outside. But she looked back to see if Bella and Zephyr were going to come. But they stayed seated in the exact spots.

"Aren't you guys coming?"

"Are you crazy? I heard there's going to be a war. We could get killed, Celia!" Those words made the blue colt pop his head right up.