Foxfire's Tail (extended)

"Where do we start?" Asked Luna, who was holding out a map for Equestria.

"We start at Germaney and head to Saddle Arabia. My changeling hive will scout out all other areas using invisibility." I answered.

"Including Ponyville?" Luna asked.

I nodded. "But, I must give them the order to do so."

"Alright." Luna nodded. "Now, when do we start?"

"Tomorrow." I answered again, going into alicorn form.

Now I know you, you wanna hear about when I caught the bastard and had him executed. Frankly, who wouldn't?

So, we'll skip a day and to the moment the guards dragged him screaming and cussing back to Luna.

Who wasn't pleased with him at all. Hell, it looked like she wanted to curse at him--but that would be stooping to his level, right?

"How dare thou place such a curse upon my sister!" Luna bellowed, hitting the bad stallion with a hoof. Celestia was also in the room, and the instant a hoof connected with his face, the spell was broken.

"Where am I? Why are you hitting him?" Celestia asked, clearly confused.

"It is too much to explain right now. Find my personal student and ask her." Luna replied, pointing a hoof toward me before smacking the bad pony again.

Celestia trotted up to me and I gave her a sheepish grin, as did the rest of my harem. "How did thou become my sister's protegee?" Asked Sun-butt.

"Let's head elsewhere. Luna looks mad, and who's to blame her?" I piped.

Celestia nodded, and I lead her out of the room and into another. There, I spilled the beans on everything. When I finished, instead of getting mad, she sat there slack-jawed much to my surprise and chagrin.

"There is no way thou hast seen those things!" Celestia shrieked, her eyes wider than my hoof. "And your father could never break my seal without magic! Your clan is most....dangerous! Luna should never have made you her student! It's unholy! Dost thou hearest me?! NEVER!!"

I looked at her in disbelief. My horn glowed, imbued with those awful memories. I tapped her forehead once, thus enabling her to see what I saw. It took a second, but all the pain, hate, suffering...even the taste of flesh hit her harder than a rock. Celestia pushed me away with her hooves as she herself tumbled backwards into a wall, and I heard a sickening snap indicating her wing broke. I quickly fixed the issue before she spoke.

"So....it has already been decided?" Celestia asked, her voice somewhat bitter.

I nodded. "Yes, I say public execution in the most humiliating way possible."

"Alright. I will call the execution right now." Celestia sighed, walking out of the room. "And even though you are my sister's student and one of my subjects, you are most dangerous. Kill no more and you shall be allowed to stay, unless self-defense is necessary."

I have been forbidden to release details about the execution to the commoner pony who didn't attend. Sorry, Luna said so.

You think this is just a bad dream? Please, I am Luna's student. And Luna showed me how to enter dreams!

-Foxfire is eerily silent-

What's that? You wish to get the images out of your head?

I can do juust that.

-Foxfire's horn glows, and in an instant, you find yourself no longer standing before the strange pony in Canterlot. You are now in the town of Ponyville, trying to regain your memories of the encounter, but there are none to be had. You sigh and trot to a graveyard and look at three graves, each engraved with 'Flowerfeather' and no first name, save for the middle grave which has 'Mechanical Gear' inscribed on it. You feel bad for the deceased trio of ponies, most likely related, who have died unknown to the world around you now.

You then go deep into the Everfree, a burnt house visible in a clearing. Two more tombstones greet you as you see one smashed to pieces and the other charred beyond recognition. You decide to explore further, seeing a ruined pile of rubble and many more tombstones surrounding it. Upon dusting off one with your hoof, you see 'Queen Aquafire' inscribed where you brushed away the debris.

Deeper still, you find a crude statue of a goat-horned stallion crucified upside down. His look of sheer madness pries into your soul. You do not understand why you seem to have a growing dislike for him. Inscribed in the bottom of the statue lie these words:

Malum in se, evil in itself.

You turn tail to run back to Ponyville as fast as you can. You do not understand how, but something keeps you locked into fear. You dare look over your shoulder, the stallion is no longer on the statue.

You turn forward and grind to a halt, a bloodied form standing before you, golden eyes locked dead onto yours.

You turn around yet again, before seeing more of him. You're surrounded. They've cut off all means of escape; ravished looks only a rapist could give on their faces as they proceed to close in on you.

Before you scream in fear, cyan fire washes his image away, and you wake up only to find you are once again in Ponyville under the care of Nurse Redheart who scolds you for going into the cursed Everfree in the dead of night, when it was said three ponies died on the day you ventured to Canterlot, and another so horrendously tortured it became a monster. She then leaves, closing the door behind her. You fight the urge to look outside through the window, but it overcomes you...

...And when you look out the window, you see him again. A mare's cry echoes in the distance, shattering the window you stand behind. You stumble backwards, cutting yourself in the process due to the broken glass. He enters the window, giving you the same horrid look of hunger. You are backed onto a wall as he approaches you.

Now, he's in front of you. That grin encompasses most of his muzzle. You start to hyperventilate.

You are then grabbed by the fiend and dragged into the darkness of the cold world.

The last thing you see before going into the darkness of eternity are those horrid, golden eyes and that insane, wide, toothy grin from the pits of Tartarus.

And ponies now see a tombstone with your name inscribed upon it, sitting next to the Flowerfeather graves.-

We can't all get what we want. In fact, some of those desires are unobtainable, even for the immortals. Foxfire wanted to go back to being an earth pony, but she knows full well that'll never happen, and that fact has lodged itself deep in the recesses of her heart. She cries and wails during the night, longing for her earth pony family to be alive once more.

She wails, and her woes are carried by the winds to be heard throughout all of Equestria. She knows that it cannot happen, hence why she cries.

To go to great lengths to stop a pony from hurting somepony else is one thing....to go to great lengths to get what you want is another, and as a result, Foxfire will be forevermore forced to live with survivor's guilt.

But...one day, she'll join them in the afterlife.

One day, she'll be with her parents and sister again. But now isn't the time.