The Twilight Corruption

Slinking through the castle, Twilight, having left her friends to find a secure inn, was now travelling to the bedroom of one of the most powerful ponies on the planet. Casting an invisibility spell, she snuck past the guards and then cast another to traverse through the door without opening it. While she could have taken the time to get through the complex wards around the room and have just teleported in, the spell she was about to cast was quite draining when she cast it as a test and so she preferred to keep her energy for that. Once inside the room, she looked at the dark interior with a starry ceiling and closed curtains and the bed that was the center of it all, like the sun of a star system.

On that dark and velvety bed, lay Princess Luna, recently back from her banishment she was still not quite a powerful as her sister and was in fact weaker than Mi Amore at present. She had had to attend to the affairs of Day Court while her sister attended that wedding and she didn’t like the experience one bit, the courtiers all thought that she was going to usurp control or pass a ridiculous law, for tartarus's sake, one of the nobles even demanded that her sister should be brought in, just to hear him rant about some new tax on the poor that she had rejected and would reject everytime he brought it in.

It was on this sleeping princess, that Twilight wove her spell. No complex matter or mind or will, this spell simply broke into the ponies brain and made a few imperceivable adjustments. No One would even notice, least of all Luna herself, until she came into contact with Twilight again. Spell completed it was a simple task to sneak and creep her way back out, although more tired than usual, resolving to take a nap at the inn that the others hopefully found.

After having woken up a little past nightfall due to her nap earlier in the evening, Twilight set off to the castle, after having a quick snack that Fluttershy made for her. When she reached Luna’s room, it was a simple matter to get herself waved in, no longer would the guards be suspicious of a friend going to see a friend. Now that the princess was up and could deal with any threat. At least, any threat that hadn’t already been there.

Either way, Twilight strolled into the room looking at Luna, who did something quite unexpected. Instead of warmly greeting a friend as her sister said she should. She stood shock still and began to recite what was imprinted on her mind the last night, “Twilight, my friend, I should listen to you in all matters. You saved me from myself and guided me through Nightmare Night and for that I shall obey you.” Twilight just stood there with a massive smile.

“Luna, it’s good to see that you’ve picked up modern speech. You should only really speak like that when you’re alone with me, who knows what spies may linger in the shadows.” Luna nodded at this great wisdom. “There was a question I did want to ask you Luna, what do you know of Ser Fireheart Deathclaw?”

Luna remembered him well, “He was the old archmage before Starswirl took on the the role, he retired due to pressure from me and my sister, after he developed paranoia and a severe twitch of his right fore-hoof. We don’t know when or where he died. My sister would know more about him as she was the one who took an interest in him, so to say.”

Hmm, I’ll have to bring Celestia under my control. I mean fix the Princess, before I can find out more about him. Either way, with Luna on my side now, I just need my parents, before I move onto the Princess and remove the monster by force. I might even hypnotise her just for all the trouble that she’s put me through, maybe even get her to expose herself!