White Zinfandel

ACT 1: Loss of Yards (I)

NOTE: This chapter will be done in three parts due to perspective and plot. This chapter shall also focus mainly on the female perspective. Also contains some disturbing imagery. Some scenes may seem familiar in the first two chapters but that is only because that they are happening as the individuals from each group are intersecting their story lines. Upon it's ending, it will permanently fringe with the separate story line and conclude in it's final outcome.

Enjoy.

Sparkle Residence
Canterlot Inner-District
07:06 A.M.

A beautiful morning has begun. The birds in the trees that surrounded the Sparkle Residence sings their daily songs of good morning. Many mother birds fly into their nests as they provide their young with food for the morning. As they feed their own, one such mother begins to feed her young.

Velvet 'Twilight' Sparkle tends to her daily kitchen duties as she rinses off the plates before setting them on the table. With a flick of her horn, she levitates all the cutlery, napkins and dishes with ease as it all falls in place on the kitchen table. The sound of her humming could be heard throughout the bottom half of the house as the birds seemed to accompany her melodious tune. Her eyes fall upon the stove top as she gracefully dances to the stove with a smile on her face. Her sways accentuate the poise she carries as she ignites her horn once more with it's magenta glow.

Pots and skillets, along with a spatula, flies gently across the room to the table as she performs a pirouette in the center of the room. As the steaming food reaches it's destination, she removes the lid from the pot and skillet that hovered above the table. She separated the steamed haybrowns from the soy eggs and the buttermilk pancakes using the spatula, creating an evenly triangulation between each dish. As she finished her dance, she tipped her horn to the direction of the fridge. The door opened to reveal a small plate of parsley leaves and a glass bottle of milk. Lighting her horn, she summoned the items to the tableside. She removes four of the green leaves and delicately places them at the center of each dish. As she finished, she placed her hoof on her chin to think about what was missing. It didn't take her long to realize that the sole thing that was missing was the maple syrup that was stashed in the cabinet. Quickly nudging her head to the right, she instantly teleported the jar of syrup to the center of the table. Her smile lights up the room as she take pride in her morning task.

"Twilight Violet, Shining Armor, Orion, breakfast is ready!" She screams to the silence of the home.

"Coming!" Answered the filly Twilight.

"On my way!" Shining answers.

"Smells good, dearest!" Orion calls out.

One by one, each member of the family comes down in order of ascending height. Twilight 'Violet' Sparkle runs down the stairs, scampering with a large book in her mouth. She struggles as she tries to keep it in as it shifts her momentum with each turn she makes. Eventually, she makes it to the end of her journey as she is the first one to make it to the breakfast table.

Shining Armor Aegnus Sparkle had made his way down the stairs and was turning the corner to enter the kitchen. He slowed upon entering as he realized that Twilight beat him to the table. Admitting his defeat, he sat at the table across from his little sister. He congratulates her on a victory well won before levitating the jar of maple syrup above his pancakes.

Orion Dusk Sparkle gradually made his way down the stairs, feeling as if there was no real need to rush himself being that his shift wouldn't start for another two hours. As he entered the kitchen, he noticed that something was rather off. Dismissing it, he took to the table and levitated his fork to his plate. As he attempts to make his initial dive, he is suddenly stopped by a floating spatula. As he looked to the source of the magic, he finds that his wife was giving him a seductive smile.

Violet already had made up on what her second course of breakfast would be this morning. But she also had an idea forming in her head as to how she was going to have her husband sing for her. She thought of the many ways to send shivers down his spine. She imagined that she was laying her husband on the bed, just as their children left for school. A vision of her straddling his hips as she tried to bite into his neck flooded her mind. Lusts that have been long dormant awoke that morning as she clinched her haunches in towards each other.

"Don't go chasing after the rabbit now, Alice." Her husband quipped to her, snapping her out of her raunchy daydream.

"Maybe the rabbit should make himself scarce, that way I wouldn't have to chase anything." She snided as she sat across from her husband.

For many minutes, the sound of silverware clattering and clanging against the ceramics filled the quiet home as Shining and Twilight raced each other to see who would be the first to finish their plates. It was a morning rite of passage to the two as they would see who would retain the necessary bragging rights to the title of 'The Household Eater'. It was a tight race as Shining and Twilight stared each other down for the duration of the match.

Meanwhile, the other two combatants stared each other down for a totally different purpose. They stared into each other, keeping a poker face as they ate their food. The action above the table was fierce in it's own right, whereas the action below the table was completely different. Their hind legs poked and prodded into one another as they fought for dominance of who would keep their expressions silent as they teased each other.

Orion slid his leg against the side of Velvet's, touching her mere inches away from her three-starred cutie mark. Velvet did not want to show any sign of hesitation as she prodded her leg into the warmth of his inner thighs, almost reaching as high as where his twin-crescent-moon cutie mark would be located outside. Orion refused to lose to his wife as he slouched down slightly in his seat to reach in between her thighs and even touching the small, outstanding patch of fur that separated her teats from her southern lips.

"Ah!"

Violet knew that she had lost as soon as she hiccuped a quiet gasp of air. She looked to her husband who was smiling as he sipped a cup of coffee, hiding behind a newspaper.

*BANG*

"DONE!" Twilight and Shining yelled simultaneously, surprising both of the parents in attendance.

Velvet cleared her throat as she refereed the match. " *ahem* Well it would seem to be a tie this morning. That means the tiebreaker will be decided at dinner tonight."

"Yeah! That means that you'll have to wash the dishes this morning, mom!" Twilight cheered as neither her brother or her would be subjugated to helping their mother clear the table.

As soon as the two finished their match-up, they ran out the room as Orion and Velvet cleared the table. The blue stallion approached the table as he lit his horn to pick up the dirty dishes and silverware to be shifted to his wife's care. In a second's length, he already shipped the dishes onto the counter for Velvet to recognize. She smiled as she looked back to her husband.

"You know, this could get done a lot quicker if you were to assist me."

Orion playfully mounted his wife, holding her close to him as they swayed in the confinement of one another. Orion gives his wife a kiss on the cheek.

"That... would be a bad idea. And besides, weren't you the one who stated that 'the should make himself scarce' earlier?"

Velvet moans softly as she giggles in her husbands forelegs.

"I don't think I would want the rabbit to go into hiding right now. I want him to guide me to the finish line."

A rush of excitement fills Orion as he stands atop of his wife. He began to reveal himself as he humped into his wife's hindquarters, eliciting an even louder moan from her. Velvet's mouth was left ajar as she softly panted in anxiety of wanting her husband to fill her. It's been so long since she felt the surging rapture that her marriage has given to her.

"Well, if you want me to take you..." Orion speaks as his weight shifts on his wife. "...then you'll have to finish here."

"Put it in Orion. It's been eight months and I haven't diddled myself since then." Velvet pleads to her husband.

"Now now. That kind of behavior is what caused little Violet to show up in our lives." Orion teased as he dismounts his eager wife.

"No. She was created on the kitchen floor, remember? Shining was created when we were at Momma Silver's place." She corrects her husband while trying to keep him mounted.

"Your mom was asleep upstairs and we decided that the sofa was the best place to relieve our stress after that dreadful ordeal of a week." Orion joked as he thought back to the days of their youth, finally freeing himself from the needy clutches of his wife. "Premarital sex was the best."

"And I am to assume that I must have lost my craft over the years?" Velvet asks as she looks to her husband behind her, waving her plot in his face while trying to hide her marehood with her tail in an attempt to leave something to his imagination.

"I suppose you are a bit rusty. But after the kids leave... I'll have you polished like a new gem before the dragon's eye." Orion promises to his wife, feeling a bit teased and wanting to relieve himself at the moment.

"Although I'd personally prefer that you'd do that now, I see your point. I'll be waiting for you." She states impatiently as she turns around to salute her husband with her lips pressing against his. He pulls away as she glides back to him, not wanting her captain to leave her company.

As he walks out the room, she begins to rush her clean-up process in hopes that she would finish before the kids left. As a good fifteen minutes pass, she sits at the kitchen table wanting her husband to grace her with his presence, as well as his affection. She looks out to the window as she imagines the instant her husband mounted her just earlier. She could feel the pressing warmth of him against her as she finds her hooves slowly finding themselves to her belly. The dishes sparkled as they dried on the rack beside the window, as did her eye as soon as a shadow entered the doorway.

"Ori-"

"Hey mom, do you have something I can open this box with?"

Velvet's heart begins to beat even faster as she realized that her son, if he had arrived any later, would have caught her in an intimate moment. But what was even worse was the fact that he was a male, which in her current repressed state, would mean all the same come next month. If Shining was tensed up, she wouldn't refuse to be of assistance.

That's just how things were for her.

"Sure." She paused before she levitated a knife to her son. "When did you get that package?"

"Just earlier this morning. It was at our front door and it had my name on it. Wonder what it is..." Shining asked as he picked up the knife and started slicing away at the tape that sealed the contents shut. As a few seconds pass, he managed to unseal the box as Velvet took the knife to the counter it came from.

Then suddenly, Shining screamed.

"AHhhhhhh! Oh shit!"

Velvet lashed to her son upon hearing him swear in her presence. "SHINING ARMOR AEGNUS SPARKLE! How dare you swear in my presence." She walked over to the young teen who backed himself into a wall. "I know that I have raised you bet-ter..."

Her sentence stalls as she looks at what was contained in the box. She slowly walked up to the box, wondering what has her son so excited. She was that there was a plastic covering and a bit of hair. As she poked at the object, she finally identified what it was that scared her son.

It was a stallion's head. More notably was the fact that it was a unicorn with it's horn completely severed at the base.

"ORION!!!"

Velvet screamed to the top her lungs as she panted heavily at the horror that her son and she had to pay witness to. And mere seconds after, Orion came galloping down the stairs with young Twilight slowly trailing behind him. As the blue stallion walked into the doorway, he saw what exactly had put his family in a distressful state. And Twilight would not be too far behind.

"Mommy, daddy, what's everypony screaming for?"

Shining bolted to the young filly as he didn't have the time, nor the care to put on his school uniform and grabbing his bags.

"Twily, let's go!"

"But big brot-"

"NOW!" He shouted at his sister as he picked her up, tossed her on his back and galloped out the front door in an outstanding burst of speed.

Meanwhile, Orion shook with anger at the threat that was called against his family as his wife hurdled against him, sobbing as she remained terrified at the fact that this delivery would happen in front of her family.

Belle Residence
Ponyville Riverside Residential District
07:34 A.M.

"Rarity, you're going to be late if you don't hurry up!"

"Coming mother!"

Rarity comes trotting down the stairs to greet her mother as they prepare themselves to get ready for the day ahead. To Rarity, it was a matter of getting to school on time and playing with her friends.

To Pearl, it was another day that she had to bear the guilt of living her 'normal' life while trying to adjust the certain knowledge that her husband will soon file for divorce papers. She could already feel the sting of being a single parent, but only this time, she would actually be the one to bring the food to the table rather than her at-the-moment husband.

As the time marches onward, Pearl and Rarity begin to set out for the town. But as the two opened the door, they saw a letter taped under the knocker.

"A letter this early in the morning?" Pearl asked as she removed the letter from the door's surface.

"Maybe from the hospital, or even Mister Shining?"

Pearl could only hope that it was from Shining. He was the only one that she was willing to cross hellfire to hear a word from. Counting her luck, she tore open the letter to see who it was from and what it would say.

Dear Belle Residence
It has come to my attention that you are all in the midst of your trials and tribulations. However, I will be there soon to comfort you and your daughter in your time of need. I personally apologize about the fact that your husband left hind leg is broken.

I also apologize in advance of breaking his other hind leg. And his forelegs. And his back. Then finally his neck. But don't worry about not being able to see him again. I will personally ship the remains of his lifeless corpse to you and your daughter so that you may share with each other your tears and your mourning cries for him.

And once more, I shall be there to hold the both of you close to me. But I don't want to just hold you two close, I want to strap you down and make you watch as I tear into that filly's pussy like she was a grown mare begging for it. And then after I'm done with her, you're going to lick her and me clean.

I'm not good with times, so how does 8 a.m. sounds like? Pretty good? I thought so. Well, I will be seeing you two soon.

Soon-to-be-yours,
~Windy

P.S.: I guess that I can't really have my way with you until I get rid of that foal that's inside of your belly... and it's REAL father.

Clearly that was not who she had hoped for.

"Rarity, pack your things, very quickly, and met me here at the back door. Pack light and don't stop for anything, do you understand me?" Pearl speaks to her daughter while trying to remain calm herself.

"Okay mother." Rarity replies upon hearing the worry in her mother's tone, though unaware of why.

Rarity gallops upstairs as her mother follows immediately behind her. Pearl urges her daughter to hurry along as they continue to make their way upstairs. As soon as they reach the top, Pearl and Rarity goes their separate ways as they ran into their rooms. Pearl knocks over a myriad of things as she packs the bare necessities that she would need in order to maintain herself as well as being prepared for anything that could happen on the way there. She looks to the clock on her nightstand as it reads twelve minutes till.

Rarity is in her room, packing what ever she thought to be necessary to not only her hygiene but also her appearance. She even looks in the drawers to find one of her most recent letters to the stallion she wrote to in Canterlot. As she looks in the drawer, her mother comes storming down the hall.

"Rarity, come now dear! There's not a moment to lose!"

"Sorry mother, I was trying to find a letter that I got from-"

"THERE IS LITERALLY NO TIME FOR THAT RIGHT NOW!" Pearl screams in panic as she looks at her daughter's nightstand as the clock reads seven minutes till.

Rarity is shaken up at the sound of her mother screaming at her, causing the young filly to back herself into the wall. Pearl sees that her frantic approach is not helping them leave anytime soon. She picks up the bags her daughter packed as well as her own with her magic and nudged Rarity onto her back.

"Dearie, I love you, and that's why I can't leave you here. So hang on tight." Pearl suggest to her scared filly. They rush downstairs and make their way to the back of the house as they find the back door. Suddenly, they hear a sound coming from the front-end of the house.

*knock knock knock*

Pearl's ears shoot open as she looks at a clock nearby. It reads three minutes till eight. Without hesitation, she opens the back door and instructing Rarity to remain quiet as they ran outside. The knocking gets louder.

*KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK*

Pearl and Rarity reaches the outside patio as they close the door as silently as they can as the knocks get even louder.

*BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG*

As the banging continues to persist, Pearl and her daughter make a run for the train station downtown. They sneak out of their back yard as they run to the side of the house when they hear something that scares the two of them even more; the sound of their front door being violently kicked in. A wooden crackling sound pierces the morning air as the two remain hidden on the side of the house. Pearl pulls out a mirror to use as they try to see where the intruder was in comparison to the front of the house. As the mirror turned the corner, they could only see the tail of the invader. They did, however, managed to hear his voice.

"Helloooooo? Is anypony home? I'm here for the morning special!"

As soon as those words permeated the air, the mother and daughter took off from the side of the house and into the street in an attempt to flee their hunter. The streets of Ponyville were quite lively this morning, which provided great cover for the two to use. They ran past fruit stands, the bakery and the town square to get to their location; the train station. As they arrived, they found that the station was rather empty except one person at the window to give out the tickets.

"Two tickets to Canterlot, please. Mare and foal." Pearl asked the ticket booth attendant while trying to regain her breath. It didn't take long for the process to come to it's completion as Pearl and Rarity made a break for the train. When a figure dropped out of the sky to them. Neither of them recognized the well-built stallion, but he did managed to recognize them.

"Awww don't leave!" Southwind exclaimed as he trotted towards the two. "I just walked in and didn't see anypony, but I did manage to catch a glimpse of you two on the way out."

"WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM US!?" Pearl screamed as her magic charged into her horn, preparing her stun bolt spell if she ever needed to use it.

"Nothing that the two of you can't provide. All you have to do is participate." He stated with a sinister grin.

"ALL ABOARD FOR CANTERLOT CENTRAL STATION!" The conductor calls out.

Southwind became distracted as he looked to the direction of where the voice came from. Pearl took advantage of that instant and fired her spell onto the face of her assailant. Southwind screamed in pain as he was temporarily blinded by the initial effects of the spell. After the girls managed to board the train, they closed the doors behind them. As Southwind started to recover most of his senses, he then realized that the girls had already escaped. He couldn't catch up to a speeding train.

Meanwhile, the mother and her daughter was panting hard as they rested in the train. Pearl looked at her daughter and felt relieved in the fact that she didn't have to see her daughter suffer in front of her very eyes. As the two remained breathless, Rarity hugged her mother tightly, scared of what all was going on.

"Mother... where are we going?"

Pearl didn't hesitate in her answer. "We're going to Canterlot to see Mister Shiny. He's going to be taking care of you while we're there."

"Are we going to be okay?"

Pearl didn't know the answer to that question, so she remained optimistic for the sake of her daughter. "...I hope so."

Sparkle Residence
Canterlot Inner-District
08:16 A.M.

"How dare you leave me here like this!?"

Velvet screams and pounds away at her husband's chest as he recited that he would be leaving for work. Orion only stands there as he takes much of the abuse that his wife is giving him, but he understands why she is like this. She was horrified at what she experienced in the past hour. And it wasn't like it was a daily thing to have your son receive boxes of severed heads and appendages show up at your doorstep on a daily basis. To her, it was a breach of security.

"I have to get this to the Detainment Station and see who was the victim." He responds as he telekinetically held the re-sealed box. "I don't think it would be wise to leave it here."

"Although that is something that I can reason with, I refuse to see myself in this house alone. You are staying with me to-day!" Velvet argued, still clenching her husband.

"I'm sorry sweetie... but in this case, my duty supersedes your personal desires. Why? Because I don't need any more anonymous packages of disembodied body parts making their way to the front door!" Orion rebutted while waving the box in his magical grip slightly, much to the disgust of his wife.

"Do you love me enough, then... to take me with you?" Velvet asked to her husband, not wanting to leave the security that he had to offer.

"Babe, I can't take you with me. This will involve in a compromise of your safety."

"My safety's been compromised since that package came in."

"Yes... but to see... I'm not strong enough." Orion admits as he looks away from his wife.

"You're not strong enough to do what, Orion? You're Captain of the Guard!" Velvet interjects, not understanding what her husband is implying. It doesn't take him long to reveal what he means to say.

"I'm not strong enough to see you get hurt. Or to lose you. And that goes for anypony that is held to my heart. So please... stay. I'd rather myself to be subject to misery and strife than to see you or our children in danger."

Orion leaves the home with the package in tow. As he leaves, he faces his wife one last time.

"...That is where my true duties lie."

Velvet watches her husband leave her once more, causing a ping of sadness to hit her. It wasn't a usual feeling of 'I'll see you when you get home' but rather a 'if you don't come back home, then I will never be the same'. Finally accepting that her husband has gone forth to protect her, she enters the house. Before she closes the door, she whispers to the resounding silence of the street.

"Orion... It is I who protect you... like I always have."

Sparkle Residence
Canterlot Inner-District
01:37 P.M.

Velvet remains silent as she continues to scrub every nook and cranny of the house. She managed to hoof-polish every single door knob in the house. Every trophy shined with the brilliance of the very sun that Celestia controlled. Every surface reflected as if they were mirrors themselves. The floor shimmered with the radiance of a tranquil ocean. Even the carpet glowed like the midnight moon. It wasn't much that she could do since she was confined to the boarders of her own home. It was then that she realized what bugged her the most in this situation...

...It was too quiet.

Not a sound resonated in the home except the sound of her breathing. She realized that if anything else was to happen to her family, that this would be the home she would live in. This would be the prison that she would be confined to when she failed to protect her daughter, the one who smiled the brightest, her son, the one whom she treated with privilege and her husband, the one who protects her and the one she protects in turn.

It would be the perfect prison. Everyday she would be reminded of the ponies that she came into contact with. She would see the names on the trophies and be able to identify the faces of those names. In the staggering silence, she would hear the voices of the family she once had. It's enough to drive a pony mad, or even to their own grave.

*knock knock knock*

Velvet's ears tilt to the door as she jumps in response. The initial sound is what startled her, but what continued to send shivers down her spine was the fact that there were ponies out there who would try to inflict harm to her and her family. This wasn't her most secure moment either. As she approached the door, she hollered past the wood to try and identify who was to assault the peace of her home next.

"Who is it!?"

"Please ma'am. Is Shining Armor home?"

Velvet tilts her head in curiosity. Surely that wasn't the sound of a girl's voice.

"What is it? Who are you? What do you want?"

"Please ma'am, let us in! We're being pursued!" The voice was that of a grown mare.

"By who?" Velvet asked.

"We don't know! I am with child, please!"

Velvet opens the door as slowly as she can to identify who it was that knocked on her door with as little risk of being harmed. Upon opening up the door, she realizes that it was a pregnant mare and a younger filly.

"I don't normally take visitors." Velvet states sternly.

"Did they threaten you as well?"

Velvet eyes grew to the size of saucers as she realized that they were in a similar situation. But she didn't know that for certain. But due to the fact that she was already with foal and had a filly probably a year shy of her own daughter's age, she granted them entrance into her home. Looking behind the two visitors, she inspected the area and closed the door behind them.

"Who are you being pursued by?" Velvet asks.

"A large, built pegasus pony with a brown coat, a black mane and tail, his cutie mark is the top half of a hoofball player's padding and he is a very persistent fellow."

"Okay. Well Shining isn't here. He's... running some errands. I'll let him know that you stopped by. What are your names that way I can specify who exactly came over?" Velvet takes a pen and paper off of a nearby table to give to the mare in question.

"Oh, my name is Pearl. And this is my daughter, Rarity."

"Oh!" Velvet exclaims as she crouches down to meet the young filly at eye level. "So you're the little darling that my Shining speaks so highly of!"

"Why yes I am! And are you Sir Shining's mother?" Rarity asks the older mare.

"Such an articulate little filly you are. And yes, I am his mother. My name is Twilight Velvet Sparkle, but you can just call me Mrs. Velvet. It is a pleasure to meet you for the first time." Velvet smiled at the bright young foal.

"It is a pleasure to meet you, ma'am." The filly smiled back.

"Isn't she a dapper?" Pearl asks as she takes a seat on the sofa.

"Why yes she is. She really makes a good first impression." Velvet compliments.

"Oh yes. I try to teach her that one of the most important things to do is to always make a good first impression."

"But of course." Velvet cosigns on Pearl's previous statement. "Would you like something to eat, Miss Pearl?"

"Oh I don't think that's necessary-"

"Oh but I insist! Even your daughter must have something that she would like to eat." Velvet persisted.

"Well we did leave town without as much as a dollip of something to feast on-"

"WONDERFUL! And in that case... Pearl can we carry on our conversation to the kitchen? I don't want to end up making something that our fair young lady finds displeasing and/or is allergic to." Velvet asked with a bright smile.

"Why of course. Rarity, if you want to you can listen to the radio." Pearl recommends as Velvet nods in agreement.

Rarity agrees and she runs over to the radio on the far end of the room. Pearl and Velvet make their way into the kitchen. As they enter, Pearl commends Velvet on how clean the entire house seemed like.

"I guess this must be the life of a noble. Who's the maid?" Pearl jokingly jabs Velvet in the side as Velvet is taken aback by the question.

"Well if you must know, I actually am the maid of the house as well as the lady."

"Oh my goodness! You must really hound the others on their cleaning." Pearl states in amazement.

"Well... I do try to emphasize to both of my foals the importance of maintaining a clean living environment. Also since we're in here, can you open that fridge and fork over those carrots? I make a mean Cremé a la Carrót." Velvet asks as Pearl obliges to her request.

"Here you go dearie."

Velvet smiles as she telekinetically moves the carrots around the to the kitchen counter. She flicks her horn to open a floor cabinet that contained a cutting board and a small pot. She places the pot on the stove while simultaneously taking a knife out the cutlery drawer and placing the carrots on the cutting board on the counter. Pearl stands in amazement as Velvet seems to pull it all off without so much as a single show of mental strain.

"Hey Pearl, I hear that your daughter is trying to get into designing." Velvet asks as she starts to cut the carrots on the counter.

"Oh of course. She's very talented. She can make a lot of things out of a needle and thread." Pearl answers.

"Oh okay... So does she make pretty dresses?" Velvet asks as she continues to magically chop the carrots.

"Yes! She's a little boutique owner and she doesn't even know it yet."

"Okay... Then permit me to ask..." Velvet began. "Let's say that you created a dress. Not just any old dress but the one that you took months of planning and hard work to come into existence. Now this being your pride and joy, you tend to advertise it a little bit. Even staving off those who wished to bestow harm upon it."

*clack-clack-clack-clack*

Pearl notices that the rate of the carrots chopping start to increase. She gets a little nervous as Velvet continues.

"Now, enter the pony who wishes to rent that very same dress from you. And after about a night out on the town, the renter decides that she would really like to take that dress for an extended exhibition run... After some time passes, the dress is returned to you. But you find that there is a rip or a stain in that dress that took you a long time to make."

*CLACKLAKLAKLAKLAKLAKLAKLAK*

The chopping intensifies as Pearl shrinks into her seat, afraid of the mare who stood before her.

"Now after all of that, how would you feel to have that happen to you?"

*CLACK... ... ...*

Pearl remains silent as the rapid clacking of the knife hitting the counter comes to a halt. Finally finding her voice, she asks the rage-suppressing mare a question.

"Well, I would be quite angry. But why do you ask?"

"If you wish to know then there's no point in me dragging it along the dirt... Just allow me to ask, what would you be naming my grandchild?"

Pearl tried everything she could to swallow the organs that seemed to climb up her body and find themselves caught within her throat. She shook in complete shock and horror of the fact that this mare might know everything there is to know about her and Shining's affair. If there was anything she could say to make this all better, she would say it all now. But seeing that the damage has already been done, she decided that it was best to confess to her faults.

"How... much do you know... about-"

"I know that you carry his foal. Information is valuable, and in my case, easy to come by. Being that I'm the head of Magic Research, we do take into consideration of what unicorn mares are pregnant, their magic surges, decline in the CSI."

"CSI?" Pearl asked looking confused.

"Caster's Sphere of Influence. And though I'm angry at the fact that you had an affair with my son in the first place... doesn't mean that I can be mad about the foal that rests within you."

Pearl looks at Velvet with shock as she expected her to do something like cut the foal out of her. But much to her surprise, Velvet was actually smiling.

"I... am-"

"If you apologize, then that means that my grandchild will be perceived as a mistake. And that is something that I do not want to happen." Velvet states as she walks up to the pregnant mare that sat before her.

"I can't even begin to speak... You're... such a..." Pearl finds herself unable to finish her sentence without tearing up. In an immediate response, Velvet hugs Pearl tightly as she realizes that this was what she truly needed at this time. There was no time for hostilities. Only love.

"My dear... you are-"

"MOM! MRS. VELVET! THERE'S SOME GUY KNOCKING ON THE DOOR!"

Both of the mares jump at the news of having yet another visitor. Velvet gestures to Pearl to stay seated as she went forth to check on who was knocking on the front door. In a blinding flash, Velvet teleported from the kitchen to the foyer of the home. Wanting to play it safe, she cracks the door open with the chain still locked to it. Upon opening the door, she sees a griffon at the door holding a pamphlet in his claws.

"Hello, ma'am. I'm here to discuss a matter that will just take a short amount of your time-"

"NO! No more Celestia's Witnesses! I had this address placed on a black list." Velvet screams as she grows annoyed. She attempts to close the door, only to slam the door on a small book that the griffon held in his other claw.

"Ma'am... There is plenty of time. Perhaps you could let me come ins-"

"GET THE FUCK OUTTA MY HOUSE!!!" Velvet screamed as she charged a stun spell in her horn, releasing it in a concentrated beam into the throat of the griffon. As the griffon fell backwards, Velvet noticed something that was going on in the walkway of the home. They had received more visitors, and they didn't look like they came over for afternoon tea.

Velvet screamed into the house as she slammed the door shut, locking every lock she had installed. "Girls, we got company!"

Suddenly a series of noises came crashing into the kitchen as Pearl screamed in horror. But her screams were silenced with a sickening yelp. Velvet ran to the kitchen to find two more griffons and a unicorn stallion holding a pot with his magic. And on the floor was an unconscious Pearl, who now had a small gash in her head. As Velvet hear another scream coming from the front, she realized that the other half of the company was trying to break down the front door.

Velvet wasted no time in making a rational decision. The kitchen was overrun and there was too much to work around. There was a school filly in the front of the house that was about to be abducted along with her mother. So Velvet cast a temporary blinding spell before being able to grab the filly as she ran upstairs.

Rarity shakes as she's being carried in fear of seeing the stallion that chased them out of Ponyville show up in the home of her beloved knight and his mother. Velvet took the filly to Shining's room as she buried the filly into the closet of the young colts room. As she hid the young filly in a copious amount of her son's laundry, she whispered to her.

"Dear, I need you to be as quiet as you can be. Don't make a sound, no matter what. Do you understand me?"

Rarity nodded before she covered her head as well. With a final sigh and a kiss goodbye, Velvet ran into the hallway as she magically closed every door in the hall while locking them...

...all the doors except the room that she would combat them inside of.

As she sat on her bed, waiting for the other intruders to arrive, the front door is busted in and the other half of the boarding party manages to infiltrate the home. Violently, Velvet screams out to the intruders.

"I do believe that a lady is not to be held in waiting!"

The infiltrators walk up the stairs as they identified the source of the voice. As they stood down the hall, Velvet stood against the doorway as she gave an indication to the others that she was more than willing to take them all on. With laughter, they all charged at the one mare. But little did they know who they were going up against.

...nor were they aware of how quickly this would end.

"Obrigescunt (petrify)"

Velvet stood her ground as the other figures were held to where they stood. Velvet decided that this was best carried out as quickly as possible in order to make an escape with the filly in tow.

"Chorum umbrae (dance of shadow)"

Flames of purple and black began to leap from the floor below them, scorching every bit of their fur and feathers off of them. She released them from their petrification, only for them to dance in wailing agony as the flesh dropped from their bodies. Their hides charred black as many of the others froze in place as accepted and awaited their grizzly fates. But there was only one that remained screaming as the burning bits of his flesh fell to ashes before his very eyes. Velvet saw fit for him to be euthanized. With a deep breath she would cast her final spell against him.

"tacita confoderetur (Silent Impalement)"

As the unrecognizable figure ceased his screaming, being that the spell disabled him from doing so, he stood in a pile of his own ashes as a sizable hole appeared in his chest. The burning figure finally hung his head as he died. The remains of his body that remained unburned, were then cremated on spot as the spell's effects finally kicked in. Velvet took the opportunity to take a quick breather. As soon as she made her way to Shining's room, she cast a spell to send the ashes out of her home and to the winds of the world outside.

"alas benedictione est (wings of benediction)"

She breathed heavily as the spells she casted were incredibly difficult to pull off in the manner of their succession. But as she opted to open the door that held Rarity within, something caused her whole world to become tilted, and even black out for a few seconds.

"YOU FUCKING BITCH! YOU KILLED MY DAMN COMRADES!"

Velvet tried to focus her magic to her horn before she was struck again, but she found that her charge was disrupted mid-process as an angry pegasus continued to assault her. The livid pegasus threw her disoriented body against the wall of the hallway. As she tried to stand back up the pegasus charged once more at her, this time dipping his shoulders into her ribcage. Velvet's eyes shrank to pins as the pain surged through her body. The initial impact of the hit sent her flying down the hall and into wall of the stairwell. As Velvet tried to make an escape, the pegasus pushed her down the stairs without hesitation. Velvet tumbled down the stairs until she finally came to a halt, the side of her skull being the point of impact.

Velvet's world swirled as her vision blacked in an out. As her vision continued to black in and out, she saw the pegasus approaching her. Her vision blackened once again and regained sight. As her vision renewed itself, she saw a bit of red before her. As her consciousness faded out and in once more, she heard faint laughter. Her consciousness fades and refocuses once more before she sees a familiar face that called out to her.

"Mom? Wake up mom..."

Velvet recognized that voice despite the condition that she was in.

"Velvet! Hang in there sweetie..."

Finally... her world faded to the darkness.

Closet of Shining Armor
Sparkle's Residence
Canterlot Inner-District
05:09 P.M.