The Sulreif Demigod

Luna and Celestia looked back at Rainbow Dash, who just stated something unbelievable.

“What?” Celestia was quick to ask.

“In her closet” Rainbow Dash was trying to catch her breath while sweat was dripping from her body.
“We found Twilights dead body!” Rainbow Dash was talking fast.

Celestia remembered sending Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy to investigate Twilights library to find something of use, but she never expected something like this. Luna and Celestia quickly looked back at Twilight.

“The Sulreif… it’s gone!” Luna spoke out, seeing that the ball of mist was gone.

“Where did it go?!” Celestia asked nervously.

“Too late Rainbow Dash” Twilight said calmly, facing away from the others, standing still.

“The power is MINE now!” Twilight turned around, with her eyes filled with a dark purple glow and with an evil grin.

“But… how? Why?” Celestia said shocked.
“W- Who are you?” she asked.

“Who am I?” Twilight smiled, just before sending a shockwave through the room, with no effort, sending Celestia and Luna flying through the air. Luckily they were just able to fold out their wings and land on their hooves again, a few meters away.

“Don’t you know your own student?” Twilight kept smiling, with the devilish eyes.
“Rainbow Dash is both right and wrong” Twilight took a glance at Rainbow Dash, who was still trying to breathe properly.
“Future Twilight is dead. I, present Twilight, am still very much alive” Twilight declared.

Luna took a step forward “Future Twilight? I don’t understand” It was clear to see Luna was weak as she had a hard time standing up.

Twilight looked down and began to chuckle, just before lifting up her head, laughing loudly.
“It’s unbelievable you couldn’t figure it out!” Twilight continued.

“No. She’s lying” Rainbow Dash whispered.

“What’s that?” Twilight looked at Rainbow Dash with a smirk.

Rainbow Dash was finally breathing properly and stood up confident. “I saw the dead body of Twilight. You’re just a fake!” She yelled as she dashed towards Twilight, with attend to attack her.

“I am just as real as you are, Dash” Twilight said calmly as she sent some of the purple mist behind Rainbow Dash, grapping her hind hooves in the air. In a swift move, the mist hurled her through the air, sending her flying into the wall at tremendous speed. She just made a small sound before failing from the wall to the ground, unconscious. The mist had returned, but only in a small amount as most of it was still inside Twilight.

“Now that she’s taken care of, I’ll continue” Twilight looked back at Celestia and Luna who was standing beside each other.

“You see, in a way, this all happened before” Twilight smiled.
“Allow me to start at the beginning. The early beginning, which you don’t even remember” Celestia and Luna both stood still anxious to find out what was going on.

“A little over a month ago, in another time dimension, I was just beginning to do my duties as a princess. It was a pretty tough task, even after all the studying. Intelligence wasn’t enough to make me feel secure. The amount of pressure and expectations from the all the ponies was killing me. I felt like I wasn’t… powerful enough”
She stopped for a second, standing before Pinkie who was lying on the ground, unconscious. She could see on Celestia that she was trying to figure it out.

“It’s funny” Twilight continued.
“I clearly remember when you were teaching me about this curse. About the Sulreif. I studied the curse even after the lesson. I was a master on the subject. Well… almost, but we’ll get back to that. I was buried in work and pressure from being a princess. I needed something to help me. Not even the fancy friendship was enough. Actually, friendship just made it harder. The thought of how disappointed my friends would be if I stepped down as a princess. Even though you all tried to reassure me that I was doing fine, you had no idea what it was like to suddenly become a princess, as young as I was. I knew I had to do something drastic, and I had just the thing in mind. I was aware that Zecora was the one securing the curse. You, Celestia, also told me that. So I went for a little visit in the Everfree forest. As the princess I am, it was hard for Zecora to say no when I asked to see the Sulreif. From there it all went pretty smoothly. Keep in mind, this all still happened in another dimension, which is why I am the only one that knows about all of this. I got the power and Zecora was too loyal to say anything” While Twilight explained; the purple mist kept surrounding her in bigger amounts.

“But as you probably know by now, the Sulreif gives a never ending hunger for power. A power I couldn’t share with anyone. Not even with you and Luna. I wanted to rule Equestria alone. Against my confident, yet nervous mind, I was not able to better the Sulreif. My plan was to take over the Sulreif, not it taking over me, but I was far from strong enough, so I became the holder and servant of the Sulreif. Since I doubted you would just accept to give all the power to me, I needed to do what Pinkie tried to do… I had to kill you both”
A horrible chill went through the room as Twilight spoke out the words.

“So why did you go to the past!? Why didn’t you just kill us and retrieve your power?!” Luna yelled out.

“That was the plan, yes” Twilight continued. “But as I wasn’t able to control the Sulreif to perfection and with you two being so damn powerful… I failed. You had me pinned down, just like Pinkie. Sucking the spirit out of me. Seeing as there was no other way, I escaped by using a time travel spell”

“But” Luna again interrupted.
“The time travel spell only works for about 10 seconds! There is no way you can still be here!”

“Yes she can… if she died” Celestia said calmly.

Twilight looked at Celestia with a smile. “Catching on I see. Yes, the spell only last for about 10 seconds, but I managed to travel to my own library after I failed to beat you. To the past Twilight… which is the Twilight you are looking at now. To make it a little easier, let’s say that I am present Twilight, and the Twilight that traveled back in time was FT, for Future Twilight. Just so you don’t get confused” Twilight smiled.

“As there was not much time, and FT was close to dying, she forced the Sulreif into present Twilight, which is me, just before taking her last breath. FT died on the spot, just after transferring the Sulreif to my former self. Present Twilight. As the Sulreif is a mind spirit, all of FT's memories were transferred to me as well. I had done it; I gave myself a second chance, as the present Twilight. Only thing is as Celestia was so kind to point out, when you die during the time spell, your dead body doesn’t get forced back into the original time. So of course I had to hide the dead body of FT. After that was done, instead of just doing the same mistake again, and fail against you two, I came up with a plan” Twilight laughed slightly.

“Here comes the funny part. I had to trick somepony into accepting the spirit into them as well. Seeing as it was in the past, the Sulreif was still secure in Zecora's house. So at that time there was two Sulreif powers. The one within me and the one being held secure by Zecora”

“I don’t get it! Why didn’t you just take the power yourself? What does all this have to do with Pinkie Pie?!” Luna yelled in frustration.

“So impatience you are. Alright, I’ll get right to it. Instead of just taking you two head-on once again, and probably end up failing, I got an idea. Getting another pony, in this case Pinkie Pie, to accept the spirit into her body, so she would eventually get so much hunger for power that, just as me, wanted to control Equestria”

Again, Luna took a step forward. “But how did you know Pinkie would be willing to accept the spirit?!”

Twilight sighed. “You see, in order for Pinkie to want the power, I had to do something drastic, so she NEEDED the power. So I went and placed a spell on Pinkie’s father. A spell I knew couldn’t be healed and would eventually kill him if she didn’t take action. I knew Pinkie loved her father so much; she would do anything to help him. So when I “accidentally” made her read the only book, speaking of the Sulreif curse, I knew she was pressured enough to go through with it”

Luna looked down for a second. “You MONSTER!!” She yelled as she began flying towards Twilight.

“I am not done with the story yet Luna. Sit. Down.” Twilight said, just before forcing her to the ground, with her mind, barely using any effort.

Twilight continued. “Allow me to finish, please. After Pinkie got the Sulreif from Zecora-“

“And what if Zecora wouldn’t accept for Pinkie to borrow the power?” Luna interrupted, despite that she was just thrown to the ground.

“Luna! Shut up!” Celestia suddenly commanded.

“Sister…” Luna whispered back at her, seeing that Celestia had an angry look on her face.

Twilight smiled and nodded at Celestia. “Thank you Celestia. Ehem. If Zecora would deny Pinkie to borrow the power, I would just have had to kill her, and force the power into Pinkie. Luckily, I didn’t need to. Actually, it all went pretty smoothly. I just had to wait until the Sulreif got out of control for Pinkie, and she would do something extreme. Like, killing a pony. At that moment, we were all 3 in the castle as the guard gave us word about the murder. It was hard to keep down the excitement, and pretend to be shocked. Even then, I still had some work before me, before the plan was complete. I was pretty concerned that my friends were able to talk sense into Pinkie, or even killing her if it came to that, which would shatter the plan. So I started off by collecting all my friends - or former friends, into the castle. Pretending I was nervous about them getting killed and they had to stay here. I got to admit, I got a little nervous when Rainbow Dash escaped from the castle to get Pinkie”

Twilight stopped to chuckle again. “But when she came back, all bruised up, I knew I didn’t have to worry. Still, Pinkie still had an army of guards to go through, before she was able to arrive at the castle. So once again, I put up an act. Saying I didn’t want to hurt my beloved Pinkie, so you wouldn’t demand the guards to attack her right away, so the Sulreif had enough time to take complete control over her, which is when the spirit is at its most powerful state. My plan was going perfectly until you, Celestia, suggested that we should use the Crystal Heart to defeat her as we did to King Sombra” Twilight looked down into the ground, still with a smile and the mist going around her.

“When I tried to kill you both in the past, I just attacked without further ado… but Pinkie exposed herself, before attacking. So once again, I had to convince you to not use the crystal heart against her, but to go another way. A way that would make sure my plan would work. After our talk, you finally gave in and accepted to use the spell instead. Of course, you had to go ahead and send your whole army after her, but I think she managed to get rid of them quite well. It was a joy to finally see her stepping into the very room we’re in right now. As I knew all about the Sulreif, it’s was an easy feat to protect myself from any harm. Unlike you two. Just as I planned, you both got damaged badly. Actually a little too badly. So with my knowledge of how to defeat Pinkie, I had to step in and do the work for you. Which was no problem really. When I went to heal Celestia, I made sure to only heal you as little as possible, but still enough so you could perform the spell. As you remember, I insisted on healing Luna as well, so I could do the same to her, and then it all came together. I knew that after you performed the spell to force out the spirit from Pinkie, you would both have zero magic left. So just as Rainbow Dash came in and the spirit was out in the open; I sucked the power into me, restoring everything that was pulled out of me the last time”

Twilight took a step forward and smiled.
“And here we are. You are both unable to fight, and I’m more powerful than ever” She said confident, with the mist rushing around her.

Luna was standing, wounded, not able to comprehend what she just heard. “So all this time…” she whispered. “I should have seen it coming” Celestia suddenly said. “You were acting so strange. Giving weird commands and locking up your friends. I thought it was just because you recently had become a princess, and you were confused about what to do, but to hear this. My… favorite student, betraying Ponyvillie, her friends and even the land of Equestria. I don’t know if it’s still you, Twilight, or the spirit talking, but I know one thing… I have to kill you”