Celestia's Secret

Fluttershy and Rainbow quickly followed Twilight back to her library so she could send a letter to the princess requesting a conference with her immediately. They arrived at the library scaring Spike so badly that he almost fainted when they barged through the door. Spike was about to ask what was going on when Twilight just started telling him that he needed to grab a quill and parchment. He quickly grabbed the items as Twilight began telling him what to write down. As Twilight finished her urgent message she saw that Spike was starting to cry. Twilight quietly walked over and picked him up in her hooves to give him a big hug to calm him down some. After a few minutes of waiting Spike belched up a letter from the princess saying that she was on her way to meet with her.

They was a massive flash of light in the middle of the library that quickly dimmed as fast as it had appeared. In the middle of the Library stood Princess Celestia. After Twilight, Rainbow, and Fluttershy rubbed their eye's to get rid of the spots that they were seeing as AJ, Rarity, and Pinkie came into the library. All six of the ponies bowed before their princess before starting the terrible conversation that they were going to have about what has happened. Twilight looked at Spike with pleading eyes that Spike understood that she wanted him to go to bed so they could talk. Spike wanted to be there to hear what happened to the nice teacher pony, but reluctantly went to his basket knowing very well that Twilight would tell him if she needed to. After Spike was in bed the princess asked her little ponies about what happened.

As Twilight finished her tale of the incident the princess asked to see the note that was left on Cheeriee's body. As she looked over the note her face began to take on a look of fear and worry.

"Princess Celestia, is everything alright?" asked Twilight worried for her teacher.

"Sadly Twilight everything is not alright. I'm not even sure who would do this or would even know what I have done. The only ponies that would know of the dark secret are me, my sister Luna, Princess Cadence, and Discord. This is also something that I have long forgotten until I read the note." Celestia replied with worry in her tone with a hint of fear coating the words.

"What was it that you did that could have caused this to happen?" Applejack asked confused at the idea that the princess could have done something terrible for this to happen.

Twilight looked at Applejack with daggers in her eye's for even asking such a question to the princess. Applejack noticed the her friend staring at her and kind of shrank back realizing that she had no reason to ask such a personal question. The princess looked between the six mares in front of her wondering if it was safe to tell them the truth. She gave a big sigh as she decided to tell them the reason why somepony would do this.

"Gather around my little ponies as I tell you a tale of my dark past." Celestia said in a serious tone letting all 6 of the ponies know that she is not lying.

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Several years ago in the dungeons of Canterlot:

Princess Luna could be heard clopping down the halls of the dungeon coming to a jail cell holding two ponies. One of them is an earth mare named Rose and the other is a unicorn mare named Amethyst Star. Luna looked at the two ponies with what other ponies would describe as a stare that could turn anypony into stone as though you were looking into the eyes of a cockatrice. The two in the cell are there for plotting against the princesses and trying to rally other ponies in their plans to kill them. They have been imprisoned for the past three months for their crimes. Their sentence could be shortened if they said told the princesses why they were plotting against them. The two mares decided to be stubborn and never answer their question.

Celestia got tired of the little game that the ponies were playing and decided to take the matters into her own hooves. Celestia had been talking to her sister, Cadence, and the petrified statue of Discord of what they could do to get the ponies to talk. As everypony sat in the throne room tossing out ideas to only be shot down by another Discord finally to break his silence and give an idea that no pony thought was a good idea to do no matter what the crime is and no matter how severe.

"Let me get this strait Discord, you want us to find their families and threaten to kill them just to get them to talk." Luna said in a very displeasing tone at Discord.

"Well we have sitting here in this throne room for the past five hours trying to figure out what to do and they have been in prison for three months. As far as I can tell they are willing to keep their silence for the whole duration of their sentence until they are set free. I'm just putting in my thoughts since no pony here can agree on anything and I can see that some of you have thought of doing it but keep pushing it down further and further. I'm also not saying to threaten to kill their parents but actually kill them in front of those two." Discord replied in a matter of fact tone through his thoughts towards the three other princesses.

The princesses looked at each other then back at Discord only to look back to each other knowing that what he is saying is true even if they don't want to admit it themselves. After several minutes of silence Celestia rose up and began to walk out of the throne room. Luna and Cadence were worried for Celestia because they feared that they knew what Celestia was going to do. To Luna and Cadence's surprise Discord who had given them the idea seemed to even regret what he said. Even with being the God of Chaos and Disharmony he never once thought that he would mention such an act and especially for somepony to act on it and that the somepony was Celestia the benevolent ruler that cared for all her citizens. Cadence and Luna left the throne room leaving Discord there to dwell on his own thoughts while they chased after Celestia.

"So we are actually going to go through with this idea of killing somepony just to get them to talk?" Cadence asked but knowing very well that the answer to her question was already answered when Celestia left.

"There is no "we," there is only myself that will condone such action and I will let no one else suffer the guilt of having to do this." Celestia answered sternly actually scaring both Luna and Cadence.

"But Tia you can't just take on-" Luna tried to rebuke her sister's statement only to be cut off by Celestia's stare. Her stare though wasn't the usual stare that Luna got from her sister. This one felt different as if she was wanting Luna for once to let her sister do what must be done and for both of them to leave her to it.

"Luna I very well understand your concern I care much that you want to have this guilt split, but I can't let you or Cadence go through with it. You are both still so young and have much more to learn about being a ruler. So please I want both of you to head back to your rooms and promise me to never talk about this with anypony." Celestia said with her eye's stern but caring for her sister and Cadence's safety.

Luna and Cadence left after making their promise to Celestia tears filling their eye's at what the rest of the night entailed. During the night Celestia went out to gather the parents and siblings of both Amethyst and Rose. Celestia used an old sleeping spell that she knew to keep the family asleep so they wouldn't wake up as she transported them back to the castle. After they had been collected and were at the castle Celestia took them below the dungeons to the torture room. The room was filled with different instruments of torture to get answers out ponies that were uncooperative. The room itself was scary because more than the princess like the room was more like a slaughterhouse because the ponies chose death than to answer for their crimes. Celestia proceeded to place a family member a each of the different torture tools. After each was tied to a different torture machine she went to fetch both Amethyst and Rose.

Warning Gore:

Celestia lead the two mares down to the torture room so they can see what will happen if they don't start talking. When they reached the door small murmurs could be heard from behind the door showing that the family members were starting to wake up. Celestia swung the door open with her magic and the two mare's had a look of shock at what they saw in the room. Rose actually started to tear up at the sight of her parents that were bound to the torture instruments. Amethyst just looked petrified at the sight before her. Not once did either of the mares thought Celestia was serious when she mentioned that if they don't start talking ponies close to them were going to be killed.

Celestia lead the shocked mares into the room and got right down to business with asking the one question that she wanted answered. Celestia began with Amethyst to see if she would crack under this kind of intense pressure. Celestia asked the question and proceeded to wait for an answer. Celestia never told the mares though that each of the machines were set to start when she asked the question in a specific order. Once the question is asked it would begin with Amethyst's father then move to her mother then her brother and ending at her sister. The machines also had a time limit set on each of them that if the question wasn't answered they would begin to move. Celestia set the timer for ten minutes on the machines if and when it became their turn.

Amethyst just sat on the ground keeping up her stubborn attitude and not answer the princess' question. After ten minutes of silence the machine that Amethyst's father was hooked up to began to move. The machine began to pull at his hooves in opposite directions slowly stretching them out. The machine continued to move as it kept pulling tighter and tighter on his hooves. After two minutes of being stretched out he screamed his last breath as his hooves were ripped right off his body and letting his torso hit the floor as he just laid there bleeding to death. Blood covered both the machine and Celestia when it finished its job.

Amethyst just stood there stunned at what she had witnessed. She looked over to the princess noticing that she never once broke her expression after seeing that. Amethyst knew that she couldn't tell the princess why they were plotting against her for fear of her safety and the reason behind it. So she sat there for another ten minutes and then her mother's machine started to go. Her mother was strapped down on a table as an axe moving in a pendulum motion began to slowly descend. After five minutes that axe reached the mare slicing open her belly. The cut was small but just one of many more to come. The axe got lower and lower cutting deeper in to her belly and starting to cut through her guts. Blood was thrown all over the room and when the axe finally hit the table it stopped moving and Amethyst's mother was dead.

The next ten minutes went by and Amethyst's brother machine began to start working. His death was fairly quick and less bloody than his parents. His machine had him trapped in a box as it filled with hot tar from the bottom going up to the top. The only sounds heard from him were his screams of pain as he was encased in tar. Amethyst stayed her stubborn way as the final ten minutes went by. Amethyst's sister was lowered by her machine into water. Unknown to everypony though that in the water was piranhas. The piranhas ate at her hind legs up as she was submerged in the water that turned crimson from her blood as she was eaten alive.

Not giving Amethyst any time to say anything Celestia went over to Rose who was at this point absolutely scared out of her mind. Celestia asked the question and let the process begin now with Rose's family. The order for them was her father then mother and her sister. Rose started to panic in her head as what to do. She looked over to Amethyst who gave her a stare that told her to keep her fucking mouth closed. Rose kept her mouth closed as ten minutes went by. Rose's father laid on a table as a bed of nails from above started coming down. After four minutes the nails reached him and began to pierce and crush his body. At the end all that was left was a squashed pony and his pool of blood around him. Rose almost started to cry but quickly regained her posture.

The next ten minutes went by and Rose's mother was getting cut at a quick pace. The machine was designed to cut a pony not too deeply so they could bleed but deep enough that they could feel the pain. Rose's mother screamed at the pain as she was continually cut from bottom to top. After only a minute the machine had cut her one thousand times before she finally died from the excruciating pain that she felt. Rose had pretty much cut her mind from the sight so she couldn't feel the pain of seeing her mom die. Through her resolve she waited the next ten minutes as her sister who was trapped in some strange mechanism caught fire. As she sat there hearing her sister scream as she was cooked alive tried her hardest to ignore it.

After seeing their family die before them they continued their resolve of not talking to the princess. Celestia walked to the middle of the room and looked at the two mares. She said that this was their last chance to answer the question she asked. Celestia required an answer within twenty minutes before she decided to deal with them. As twenty minutes passed Celestia's horn glowed its golden color as she used a spell making both the mares head's explode sending blood and brain matter everywhere. After that Celestia cleaned herself up and walked out of the room at least knowing that the problem was solved, even if it was in a gruesome manner.

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Back to the present:

The six mares mouth's were agape as the princess finished her story of her dark secret. Celestia looked at them knowing what they were thinking and how they felt about what she had done. She told the ponies to go get some rest and they can talk about this in the morning. The mares left the library for their respected homes to go get some sleep. Celestia knew this would be painful to talk about but she would decide what to do later in the morning.

Author's Note

Hey everypony I'm glad to announce that updates will be quicker now that I have free time on my hands. Please leave comments about anything and if they are questions I will respond to them all. Also just to let some people know this is that as the story gets further in it will start to get more bloody and I will give a little warning to when it is coming.