Break your Fate

Chapter 6

The darkness around was calming, the soft whispering of the souls around Wra'kyr was mesmerising, soothing.

Sitting on a part of the machine, looking down on the paths Wra'kyr feels something odd coming from the machine, a soft vibration rushs through it, the paths of the souls wavering.

Something was wrong.

This reaction, it only happens when something stops going according to plan.

Teleporting down, Wra'kyr looks at the machine, seeing the soft red light on the front of the machine.

Wra'kyr's eyes widen.

Turning around she opens a veil through the ether, looking at the most important part of her plan.

Crescent was still alive, as well as his sister Meteor.

Changing the vision she searches for Shining Armor, seeing him back home, looking sad at a doll of his daughter.

Another change.

Wra'kyr's eyes widen again.

Siren was gone.

"No." Wra'kyr whispers, looking at the dark creature before her, trying to jump through the veil to help her.

A crack of black lightning sends her flying.

Catching herself midair, Wra'kyr lands softly on the path of light, careful not to disturb the way of the souls.

"What happened Siren? Everything went according to plan. You should be happy, you should smile and laugh." She walks back to the veil, looking through the rift once again.

Another vibration, this time stronger, echoes through the machine and the darkness around it.

"No. No. No-no-no. No!" Wra'kyr turns around, rushing to the machine. "It can't be. Celestia died but she shouldn't be able to-" Another tremor, interrupts her. A blue light appears next to the red. "No!" Wra'kyr opens another veil, another path to find a way and help Siren. She tries to jump through but yet again, the black lightning sends her flying again, this time unable to catch herself midair she hits the machine.

A groan escapes Wra'kry's throat as she looks through the two rifts. One showing her the darkness that holds Siren, the other showing her the darkness that holds the whole palace.

"This is not according to plan." She murmurs.

Another heavy tremor rushes through the machine.

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I still sit in the hallway, searching through the darkness, looking for the owner of this very familiar voice.

"Mom?" My voice echoes through the darkness.

"Crescent?" I turn around and see Vivid sitting next my sister, holding her in a tight embrace. "What is it?"

I look back into the room, seeing the fear filled eyes of my sister.

"It's dark." I simply answer with a soft voice. "I think we should go now and search for help." I look down at the guard, looking at the clawmarks. "It's not safe her with the broken door."

"But isn't it even more dangerous outside?" Meteor's eyes widen. "We can hide. Somepony will find and safe us. Mommy and daddy will come to safe us." Her voice was shrill, fear reflecting in her big eyes.

I walk back in and pull both mares in a soft embrace.

"It's okay." I whisper. "I will protect you. Mom and dad are probably with Auntie Luna right now. So if we go and find Luna, we find mom and dad." I keep my voice as soft as possible, no use to scare her more. "Everything is going to be fine. I promise." I look in Meteor's eyes.

She nods.

I smile and pull my little sister up on my back.

"Meteor." I turn to look at her. "Promise me one thing." She looks at me with her big eyes, her ears erect and turn towards me. "Whatever happens, don't let go."

"Why a-"

"Promise me!" I look at her with a stern expression.

She flattens her ears and flinches, looking at me with fear and sadness. "I promise." She whispers. Her grab around my neck tightens.

I nuzzle her.

'Good girl.' I think.

I turn back around and see that Vivid is already at the guard, looking at his wounds.

"Meteor. Close your eyes please. I'll tell you when you can open them again." I feel her soft nod as she buries her face in my coat.

Walking closer to the guard I look at Vivid, looking at the wounds with a trained eye.

She looks up, but not at me, at Meteor.

"Most of them are not that deep." She states softly. "The two around his neck are what..." I nod at her. "Looking at them, they remind me of Timberwolf marks."

"Timberwolves in Canterlot Castle?" I raise a brow. She nods.

"At least it looks li-"

A bright light cuts her off midsentence.

I jump back, ready to defend my sister.

The light disappears.

Princess Luna was standing before us, a deep wound on her shoulder, blood was drenching her coat. Her breathing was heavy, her eyes widend. She looks at us, her expression filled with fear. She looked like she saw a ghost.

She turns around to look at the door, the dead guard, the darkness in the hallway.

She doesn't even flinch at the look of the dead guard.

"We have to go." She states coldly. "We are not safe here."

"Princess, what is-"

"Hush." A voice whispers.

I turn around.

The voice belongs to my sister.

"I hear the echo. The echo of an old friend." Meteor's eyes are open and completly white, her iris completly gone. "An echo... an echo." Her voice gets quieter and quieter.

"Give her back to me." Again this whisper.

"It's here." Luna whispers, backing off from the door.

"What is it?" Vivid asks quietly.

"You heard Meteor." Luna turns to the mare, a sad expression on her face. "An echo."

"You took her away from me." The voice whispers. This time though it sounds more like a ghost. Hollow, cold, lonely.

"I'll port us away." Luna looks at us, her horn already ignited. I feel the pull of her magic just as the shape of a creature enters the doorframe.

"You won't get away." The creature pounces at us.

But we're already gone.

I open my eyes to find Vivid, Meteor, Luna and myself in the throne room.

I hear Vivid gasp.

I flinch away as my eyes widen.

The whole room was filled with blood and dead bodies. I even step on a broken spear lying at my hooves.

But with all this, the grisly scene before us, the smell of blood, this nauseous smell of blood. The biggest problem was-

The creature was already here, Luna lying right before it, a new wound on her head.

"She's mine." The creature hisses as it takes a step closer to me.

I take a step back.

"You took her away. You stole her." Now that the creature get's closer I can feel the miasma that surrounds it, a dark aura of despair and loneliness.

"SHE. IS. MINE." It screeches, pouncing at us.

My sister screams in pain as the creature sends us both flying, the body of the filly hitting the marble floor, landing right next to me.

The painful yelp of my sister in my ear.

It was a sound I never wanted to hear.

It was like a dream.

A nightmare.

I promised to protect her.

I failed.

I feel something cold under my right leg.

"SHE. BELONGS. TO. ME!" The creature steps on my chest, pinning me to the floor with it's left leg. I can feel the sharp claws on my skin. Leaning closer the creature opens it's maw, revealing long black teeth dripping with the same black ooze.

Time seems to slow down.

I see the creature opening it's maw even wider, ready to sink them into my neck, I can smell the stench of blood coming from the depths of it's throat. I can hear it's heavy breathing.

I hear Vivid scream something.

I hear Meteor's soft sobs.

In the edge of my eyes I see Luna looking at me.

My hoof get's a good grip around the cold feeling under my leg.

And time moves on.

In a rush I grab the broken spear, it's tip in my hoof I ram the blade deep into the open maw of the creature, silencing it immediately. A yelp escapes my throat as I hurt myself on it's sharp teeth, cutting deep into the flesh of my leg.

Silence.

I look at the creature, standing over me, the broken spear poking out of the back of it's neck, red blood dripping down it's tip. I see more blood streaming down my own leg.

A screech escapes the creature, but not from it's throat. The scream escapes it's skin, it's eyes, it's whole body.

White cracks start to form on the skin, a blinding light escaping the cracks.

A ghostly figure appears behind it. A bipedal creature, completly white, looking down on the monster with a sorrowful expression.

And with the sound of shattering glass the dark skin of the monster bursts away.

My eyes widen.

I hear Luna, Vivid and Meteor whisper something, but I can't hear them. My eyes, my ears, my whole body is focussed on the creature before me.

It's a mare. Her faint rose coloured body stained with blood. Her light green mane had a dark green skank running through it. The wings on her back were to big for a pony that small, they looked more like the wings of a alicorn.

I know this mare.

I know her better than anypony else.

Meteor's whispers finally reach my ears again.

"Mommy?" Her voice was timid, heartbroken, weak.

"Mommy?" I can hear the tears, that stream down her face, in her voice.

"MOMMY!" She screams.

Siren's body drops to the floor as I lose my grip around the spear.

Tears start to stream down my face as Luna rushes over to pull me and meteor into a hug, turning us away from the grisly scene.

Somewhere in the back of my mind I hear the sound of shattering glass.

"Oh poor baby. What have you done?" A voice purrs.

"You killed your own mother." The voice laughs.

"Simply lovely."

A scream escapes my mouth as darkness overtakes me.

"Tell me this is a dream!" I scream into the darkness. "Tell me it's just a nightmare!"

"I wish I could, Child. I wish I could." The darkness answers.