Master's Will

"Damnit how could I be so reckless...how did I forget to cover my tracks all those days ago...no I can't think about that now I have to think of a way to escape."

Boom came the sound of something hitting the thick wood doors with a great amount of force.

"Oh no they are already here...I can’t let them have it...I won’t let them have it...I-"

Boom

"Damn what can I do, where can I go...I have to get rid of it before they find me...but how can I destroy something that I poured my soul into...I can’t but I must it’s the only way...but if I do it will in turn rip my mind to shreds...wait a minute shreds that’s it!"

Boom

"All I have to do is think....yes think hard...now how did that old song go. No not that one...ah yes. Nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh...and some bloody leg swag to come over to mehehehe."

Crash the wood door came down allowing in the white guard ponies.

"Now the shreds. Make one here and here...oh yes and to finish it one here...oh I am just to good."

"Stop what you are doing!" The captain of the guards roared out.

Two purple eyes flashed from the dark corner that the lavender unicorn was sitting in. She started giggling when she saw the guards that had entered her library. Her giggling escalated into a crackling laughter that filled the room with her insanity.

"Your too late...too late...too late...hehehe...the deed is done. The price has been paid and now he has been freed from its cage." The unicorn said lifting up the remains of a scroll that was covered in runes made out of blood. "The price...yes the price!" she through her head back and laughed even harder.

The guards moved in on the lavender unicorn and restrained her with ease. She didn't put up a fight as they put her hooves in a white coat and a magic suppresser on her horn. She rolled her neck from side to side as they dragged her out into the blinding sunlight. It had been nearly three weeks since she had seen the light of the sun and it burned her retinas as her eyes tried to adjust to the light. The guards threw her in the back of a padded carriage and the last thing she saw was the crying faces of five mares before the doors of the carriage were shut.

Four weeks earlier.

Twilight looked around at the mess in the basement of the library. "Spike! I thought I told you to clean up this mess an hour ago what’s taking you so long."

"..."

"Spike what are you doing?" Twilight asked walking past a box filled with beakers and test tubes. The baby dragon was looking at a small portage of his crush Rarity letting out the occasional sigh. "Spike!" The dragon nearly jumped out of his scales as twilight yelled in his ear to get his attention.

"Ow! What did you do that for Twilight?"

"Uhh...I don't know maybe it’s because Zicora is coming over any second now and this room still isn't cleaned up."
The day before Twilight had invited the zebra over to discus different books that are worth reading about old pony folklore. Zicora told Twilight that she would come over at three and it was five till three.

"Oh sorry Twilight I'll get on it right..." Spike stopped as the sound of the door bell went off followed by an annoyed sigh from Twilight.

"Just clean up this mess while I let Zicora in." Another ring came from the door bell. "Coming!"Twilight yelled up the stairs.

She left the dragon to do his chores and walked up into the main part of the library to let Zicora in. The zebra waited patiently for Twilight to open the door.

“Sorry I took so long Zicora I was down in the basement and it is a bit of a mess down there.” Twilight said blushing a little.

“It is no problem Twilight, just being here is such a delight.” Zicora said in her usual rhyming fashion.

“Thank you Zicora and thank you for helping me find books on the Everfree forest. Please come in and make yourself comfortable I will have tea ready in a few minutes if you would like some.”

Zicora came in and placed her saddle bags down next to the fire place as Twilight prepared the tea. After a few minutes they were both sipping tea and disusing everything that that would pertain to the Everfree forest. Twilight learned the names of some more books that she had originally thought were silly and unrelated to the dark forest. She also occasionally took notes on some of the plants and animals that Zicora knew about that could be potentially hazardous.

This went on for a hour or so when a sudden crash came from the basement. Both pony and zebra rushed down the stairs to see what had cause the commotion. When they reached the basement Spike was on the floor rubbing his head. He was surrounded by broken glass and papers.

“Ow.” He said as he got up from the mess. He saw the ponies giving him worried looks…well Zicora was Twilight’s look was more agitated then worried. “Oops. Sorry about that Twilight I slipped while carrying some Boxes.”

She rolled her eyes at him. “It’s alright Spike just clean up the rest of this mess and you can have the rest of the day off.”

At that he saluted and rushed off to find a dustpan and brush. Zicora let out a small laugh as she and Twilight walked up the stairs.

“Sorry about that Spike can be a bit of a klutz at times.”

“It is no problem such is the way with children, he is a baby and must be forgiven. Now it is getting late and I must go, for the sun has nearly silenced its glow.”

Twilight looked out her window and sure enough the sun was close to setting. She knew that the forest got very dangerous after the sun had set and with Zicora living in the forest it would be best if she were to leave.

“Ok then thank you Zicora for helping me out with this research on the Everfree. I hope you will have a safe trip back to your hut.” Twilight said giving her friend a small hug before leading her to the door and opening it for her. Zicora said her good bye and walked out.

Twilight felt a bit exhausted as she walked back into the center of the room. She laid down on a small rug and levitated a thick book over to her so she could read. Spike came up the stairs twenty or so minutes later and said he was heading out.

“Ok Spike just be back by nine.”

“Ok then see yah later Twilight.”

She watched as he left the door before turning her eyes back to the book in front of her. Just as she was about to resume her reading her eyes caught a glimpse of something shinning. The light was coming from a pack next to the fire place. Twilight face hoofed when she saw a stitching resembling Zicoras cutie mark on the side of the bag. She then looked for what had been making the slight glow that could be seen through the intricately woven linen that made up the saddlebag. She flipped open the flap and peered inside bag. The glow was coming from a small gem in the bottom of one of the side pockets that lined the bag.

Twilight levitated the small gem out and on closer inspection it turned out to be a ruby the size of a marble. As she gazed into its depths she noticed that the glow got stronger the closer the gem came to her body. She could see what was making the faint red glow moving as if it was swimming about in the gem like a fish, moving back and forth. Mesmerizing her…making her want to hold it closer and closer, until the gem was just a few centimeters away from her face.

The glow intensified suddenly and Twilight closed the distance in between her and the jewel. As it made contact with her fur it exploded in a fury of light releasing whatever it was creating the red glow. It swam its way through the air making circles around Twilight’s vision.

After the gem had shattered Twilight snapped back into reality and the fear settled into her soul as she watched whatever it was move through the air. She wanted to move away but something in the back of her mind forced her to stay put and allow this red wisp to do whatever it wanted.

It stopped suddenly and started to vibrate violently before moving slowly towards the pony. Twilight couldn’t move or call out for help, all she could do was watch as it slowly moved closer to her. Inch by inch it crept closer to her at an aggravatingly slow pace making it seem as if each second were a life time.

Twilight felt like her mind was being ripped in two as it made contact with her horn making her scream out in pain. A torent of hellish agony ran though her body as whatever the red glow was did what it wanted to her. Wave after wave of pain came and raped her body and mind to the brink of insanity. She was rolling around on the floor holding her head in her hooves as a hollow ear piercing scream escaped her lips.

The noise coming from her lips stopped suddenly as her mind finally shattered under the presser of the never ending pain that was in her head. She laid there for a few moments with her body tense and her mind blank before she slipped into the sweet embrace of unconsciousness.

The Present

“How could this of happened? How could I allow my most faithful student fall into the hands of insanity?” Celestia said to herself as she waited for her carriage to arrive at the clinic that Twilight was being held at.

She had arrived at the Library just after Twilight had been taken away to a place where she couldn’t hurt herself and more importantly anypony else. The first thing she noticed as she walked through the doorway was the overbearing smell of blood. She looked around at the boarded up windows covered in red runes and symbols made from blood. She nearly gagged as the smell hit her nose.

One of her guards came up from the basement and gave her his report of what had been found in the house. “We found no bodies so the source of blood is unknown but whatever it or who it came from they are most probably dead. We also found magic residue that resembles the forbidden soul transfer spell. From how much residue is left I would have to say the spell was performed earlier this morning. There is a sound proof barrier around the library which shows how she was able to stay like this for so long.”

The guard was about to continue with his report to the princess but he had turned away and walked back to her carriage. She told the two stallions that pulled it to go where they were holding Twilight. They arrived at the clinic twenty minutes later and the princess burst into the main lobby demanding that she go to the cell Twilight was being held in.

A nurse pony guided her up a flight of stairs to the second floor of the building and down a white hall way. They stopped in front of the room marked with the number 216. The nurse fumbled with her keys for a few seconds before pulling out the right one and unlocked the door.

”Three and a half weeks ago.”

Yes. Yes! That's right Twilight there is no stopping me.

“No you’re not real. You can’t be! All you are is a figment of my imagination.”

”If that is so then why do you still speak to me…hahaha I’m stuck in you whether you like it or not.”

“No just go away.”She said with tears running down her face.

”Now shall we start again. Let’s go through all these pent up emotions and memories in here.”

“Go away. Go away. Just please go away.”

“Oh why would I do that when I’m having so much fun! Now where was I…ah here we are lets open this up and here we go.”

Twilight tried to scream as a wave of memories that she kept pent up in the back of her head rushed through her mind. She bucked as they ripped through her mind filling her with a burning sensation. Twilight started to cry soaking her pillow.

“Why? Why are you doing this to me?” She yelled into her pillow.

For the past few days ever since Zicora had come over Twilight has been hearing a voice in her head…well it only started off as a voice, but it grew into something that could grab hold of her memories and emotions and release them. The more it did this the more powerful its grasp on Twilight became. Twilight had stopped eating and she couldn’t sleep because this thing inside of her completely controlled her.

”Why wouldn’t I do this to you? Your reaction brings me so much pleaser that I cannot resist!” crackled the voice in her head.”Are you ready for another round my dear?”

Twilight was about to respond when another wave of pain filled memories rushed through her brain. She grinded her teeth together in defiance, not wanting the demon inside her to have his way. But then something new started to spring up from her gut. A feeling that Twilight truly feared.

”Oh what’s this I’m feeling from you?” The voice questioned. ”Twilight are you starting to enjoy this? Why you little masochist.”

“No your wrong…your wrong. I hate this.”

”Oh really now?” Another wave of pain filled memories hit her and it gave her more of the sensation that she feared.”You cannot lie to me Twilight, I’m in your head. I know everything you know and more. In the back your head you just love it when I do this!”Twilight let out a whimper as another wave hit her. ”Stop being in denial and just accept it. Give into the pain and insanity.”

“No I won’t.”

The Present

It was dark out and the commotion of everything had finally calmed down after what had happened earlier that day. All throughout Ponyville rumors had spread of how Celestias prized pupil had gone insane. The streets were all empty and every pony had gone to bed. But there was still one small figure lurking its way through the streets. It silently moved on two scaly feet that made little to no sound as they made contact with the cobble stone road.

This strange creature shifted its way in between houses and alleyways to pear into the windows. It caught glimpses of ponies but none of them were the one it was looking for. That didn’t frustrate it but instead made it happy. It wanted to hunt down the pray it was searching for because it knew when it would finally find its prey it would make the moment all the more sweet to experience.

A large toothy grin was on its face as it passed from house to house searching for this one pony that it would use to satisfy its hunger. Its eyes had the gleam of insanity in them which grew ever more evident after each house she wasn’t in.

Suddenly something caught his eye as something swooped down on the porch of the nearest house. It had two yellow round eyes which it glared at him with. “WHO?” said Owlowiscious as the twisted creature approached him. The owl turned his head at a one hundred degree angle to look at the approaching creature.

Suddenly two claws flew towards Owlowiscious grabbing the bird sending it into a panic. CRACK came the sound of the owls neck being broken followed by the soft thud of the bird falling to ground.

“Stupid animal.” Whispered the creature as it walked away from the twitching figure on the porch.

It continued down the street before stopping in front of a certain store filled with mannequins that were wearing the most extravagant dresses. Inside the window was the mare it was looking for, that one mare that it was craving the most.

The grin it was wearing grew to an enormous size as it looked upon the beautiful purple mane and tail protruding from the white coat of the mare.

Its eyes grew ever more wide as the studied every aspect of the mare. The excitement boiled up inside of it and it could resist no longer. The dragon known as Spike stepped out of the darkness and into the light of the lantern that was hung outside the front door. He raised his scaly claw up to the door and knocked.

Three weeks ago.

“Oh Spiiiiiiiiiiike can u you please come down here? I need you to do something for me.” Came Twilights voice from down the stairs.

Spike was hesitant in his response. For the past week Twilight had been acting very differently. At first it started off with her talking to herself but that happened often but as the week went on Spike could hear screams come from her room. Whenever he would check on her she would act as if nothing had gone wrong. In the past day the screams had turned into moans and grunts. The light had completely left her eyes and Spike feared every moment that he would be around her.

“Spike what’s taking so long. I need you to do something very important that I know you will just love.” Came her voice again something was very off about it and Spike’s instincts were yelling at him not to respond.

“Uhh…ok Twilight I’ll be down in just a second.”Spike responded. He slowly crept down the stairs being very observant. He flinched as the second to last stair let out a loud eerie creak signaling that he had finally descended into the basement.

Twilight jumped out of nowhere and gave him a big hug. Her pupils were small and she wore a maniacal grin on her face. She released him from her hold and looked him over.

“So…what is it you needed me for.” Spike said paralyzed with fear wishing she would take those dead eyes off him.

“Why my faithful assistant I need help preparing for the arrival of somepony that will change everything. All I need now is one crucial thing that I am missing.” She said giggling right after.

“W-what is that?” Spike said with a shaky voice.

“Why I needed you of course…well more importantly what’s inside of you.” She enveloped him in a purple aura and threw him across the room while giggling to herself.

Spike hit a wall with a small thud. “Ow! Why are you doing this Twilight I though you loved me!” he said starting to tear up as he made his way back on his feet. He heard a creaking sound followed by a crash as a barred door slammed close in his face. He then realized that he had been thrown into a cell.

“Why I do love you Spiky that is why I have chosen you for this task.” She said walking up the bars and looking down on her assistant with malice in her eyes. “You see I need a source of blood so I will be able to summon up my master.”

“Why would you need blood can’t you just send Celestia a message?”

“No you silly green cutie you. I wasn’t talking about Celestia no I wasn’t was I….No you most certainly were not. Oh there I go again.” A shiver ran through Twilights body and she let out a load moan of pleasure. “Oh thank you master.”

“You’re insane! What happened to you Twilight.”

“What happened to me? I was forced into a lovely world that I cannot resist and now I am just a puppet that needs only to turn the key on her master's lock.” Twilight through back her head and let out a disturbing laugh that filled Spike with despair. “Now you stay here my plump purple pumpkin. I need to sort a few things out before we are allowed to continue.”

Twilight then left the frightened little dragon in the basement and trotted up the stairs and into the main area of the library. She levitated her coat and snow boots over to herself and put them on. She then opened the door and walked out into the heat caused by the summer sun high in the sky.

“Burr it is so cold out here I had better go get those boards so I can make sure nopony will interrupt my important work to call forth my master.” Twilight said as she walked down the road to the hardware store.

The Present

Celestia peered into the dark room containing her student. Twilight was in the corner of the padded room talking to herself and rapidly moved from one emotion to the next. She didn’t notice as the white alicorn approached her.

Twilight started crying. “Why? Why did master leave us? Did I not do everything he asked for?”She said before plunging her face into her hooves.

“Twilight?”

“There is no more feeling anymore. He has left me and there is no pony left to reward me with pains sweet nectar.”

“Twilight look at me please.”

“Oh master why did you abandon me? I know maybe if I sing the song he will return.”

“Twilight Sparkle you look at me RIGHT NOW!” Celestia said raising her voice.

The lavender mare turned her head to look at the sun goddess. A large grin was on her face and she started to laugh hard.”My what do we have here…a little filly to far from home. Let me ask you are you lost in this dark cave?”

Celestia was taken aback by the words Twilight had just spoken to her. No pony in nearly three thousand years had ever call her a little filly. But she put that aside and when along with Twilights crazed ranting.

“Yes I am lost. Can you tell me Twilight who was it that you were speaking of.”

Twilight looked shocked. “You mean you do not know of the master?”

“No I do not know of this master that you speak of, can you tell me about him?” I thought I was your master.

“Why master is the master. He is the one that brings on the beautiful pain. At first I didn’t like it but he said it was very good and I gave into it. Now my eyes are open and he introduced me to insanity. He showed me things nopony else would…But master has left me and I’m so lost.”

“What do you mean he has left you?”

“He told me that he wouldn’t leave me when I let him out of my head. So I agreed and he showed me a spell that required a few simple items. He told me he would need a body and blood to write in…Hehehe the body, the blood! Oh joyous color!”

“Twilight…I want you to tell me who this body belonged to.” Celestia asked hoping it wasn’t who she thought it would be.

“Why it was my plump purple pumpkin of course.” With that Twilight started switching between laughing and crying.

Celestia left the room and her student behind and headed back to Ponyville She needed to find whatever it was that Twilight had released and stop it from harming anypony.

Last Night

“Come on Spike waky waky. It’s time to get up.” Twilight said banging a wooden ladle against a bucket.

“Not again Twilight please no. I don’t have any more to give to you.” Spike said with fear as he stirred from his sleep.

Spike last track of the time after the first few days but he knew he had been in the basement for nearly a month now. Every other day Twilight would come down with few buckets to get what the voice was demanding of her. She would levitate Spike out of his cage and strap him upside down with his arms above his head.

Afterwards she would slit his throat and wrists and drain him of his blood. She had been collecting his blood for purposes that Spike knew nothing about. Every time he was close to dying she would heal his cuts so he wouldn’t die. Thanks to Twilights magic Spike had been able to recover faster than he should have. All he was to her now was a blood producing factory.

“Don’t worry silly I’m not going to drain you of your blood…no we are finished with that.” Spike was a little relieved when he heard that but an unsettling feeling grew in the pit of his stomach telling him that whatever was next he would dislike even more than the blood draining. “It is time to welcome my master and he has chosen you to be his body. Doesn’t that sound so exciting.”

Spike didn’t have the time to contemplate what she was talking about. Right after she had stopped speaking she opened the cage door and levitated him out with a sharp jerk to get him away from the cage bars he was grasping. “Wait until you see what I have done up stairs.” She said trotting up to the main level of the library.

Spike could hardly tell if he was still in the library or not. The windows and door where covered in planks of wood that didn’t allow any sun light to enter the library. The only light came from the center of the room where there was a pile of books neatly stacked to look like an altar. It was covered in half melted candles. AT first glance the rest of the library looked as if it had been painted in a dark rusty red color. But on closer inspection the red turned out to be thousands upon thousands of demonic runes covering every surface.

“Do you like it? Look around at the fruits of our labor.” Twilight said with glee and a large grin on her face. “Oh I agree master it is glorious isn’t it…uh master could you possibly give me one more before we start?” A second later Twilight quivered as pain filled her body. She let out a small moan and her legs nearly buckled underneath her. “Oh thank you master. Yes right away I will start immediately.”

Twilight paced Spike down on the altar made of books and tied his arms down with straps that were bolted to the floor. If he had enough strength left in his body he would have easily been able to release himself but after the continuous blood loss, malnourishment, and not moving much because of being trapped in a cell he didn’t have the strength to do much of anything. Twilight placed a rolled up scroll next to his head .

“Twilight please stop this. You don’t have to do this.” Spike said looking at his oldest friend hoping that his voice would get through to her.”If you let me go I promise I won’t tell any pony.”
She stared at him for a few moments. “I agree master his voice is getting a little annoying.” She said using her magic to shut his mouth. “That is much better…now it Is time to start!”

She when into the kitchen for a few minutes and came back with a large knife. “Step one make the embodiment that holds master know pain.” She said taking the knife in her magic and placing it at the base of Spikes stomach. It slid in with ease and Twilight slowly made her way up making spike give out muffled screams of pain. The knife was only a few centimeters away from spike throat when she stopped.

The blood started gushing out of his wound. Twilight soon solved that problem by levitating a metal rod and heating it up red hot with her magic. Spike looked at the instrument with fear and he shook his head trying to get Twilight to stop. The metal came into contact with his wound letting out a sizzling sound as spike flesh started to cauterize. Spike lost consciousness.

“Ah I’m so sorry master he blacked out…oh ok I guess we could move onto step two.” Twilight put one of her hooves on Spikes wound and pressed down. She kept adding more and more pressure till Spike yelled out it pain as he was pulled away from his sleep. “Good you’re awake Spike now we can start on step two.” Twilight said to the dazed dragon.

She took up the knife again and set it against his forehead. “Now Spike I need you to hold still so I can put the transfer runes on you.” She then started to carve runes into Spikes skin she put one on his forehead two on each arm and each leg and one over his heart.

Spike slipped in and out of consciousness as she worked on him. His mind was blank because of all the pain he was in and he couldn’t think straight.

“Now stay awake Spike step three requires you being here with us when we transfer.” Twilight said in Spikes ear. She then levitated a bucket filled with the blood she had extracted from him the day before up above the her head. “Step three the host must drench herself in the blood of the next.”

After that the bucket above her tipped over and Twilight was covered in the red liquid. She shuttered as if fatigued when the last few drops felon her. She pulled the bucket near her and licked up a straggler which filled her senses with an iron taste. With that she put the bucket aside and started powering up her horn for the final step.

“And…finally the soul of the current host must transfer her soul to a paper written in blood so the master may have a free path to leave her body.” With that her horn flared with purple light and shot out to the paper lying next to Spikes head. The paper glowed with purple light and Twilights body convulsed a few times before it collapsed to the floor. After the purple light left the room a new red one started to glow forth from all the runes that covered the walls and floors. To spike the world had turned red and all hope left his body.

Twilight’s body didn’t stay put as a dark red glow started to emanate from the horn making the body float upward. Spike could only watch in horror as it moved closer and closer to him. When Twilight’s body was just a few inches away a red orb shot out of the horn followed by another and another. One orb shot out for each of the places where Spike had runes in him. They hovered in place for a few moments above his body until the glow from Twilight’s horn died down. With a gush of wind that put the candles out the orbs moved downward and slipped into his skin with ease. Spike yelled out as a burning sensation filled his body and he started to convulse.

Twilight awoke an hour later to the sound of some pony pounding on her door. “Miss Twilight Sparkle In the name of Celestia open this door and stop the evil deeds you are doing!” Came the voice of a guard pony. When there wasn’t a response he started bucking at the door.

Twilight looked around in a hurry. The straps that had held down Spike were each broken and he was gone. She could no longer feel the presence of her master in her head anymore and she started to panic.