Adventure? How About a Flash Back

Chapter 4

Faded Voices

Twilight’s body moved in it’s own free will, as this mysterious pony controlled her, from who knows how far away. He obviously had some connection to her castle. He seemed really upset about her taking over this land for herself, but what could she do? She was ordered by Princess Celestia herself, the most powerful Princess she had met, to take the kingdom. The master of the Day Night cycle, with magic powerful enough to banish you to the moon. The only thing she had found herself to think was more powerful than Celestia, was the Elements of Harmony. She tried to open her eyes, but this monster wouldn’t let her even twitch and eyelid. She watched through the filtered vision of her new enemy, he showed her only as he pleased. He moved about the castle covering it with chaos everywhere he went, he destroyed everything she had liked about the place to gain more and more power over her. She struggled at the sight of everything she had accomplished being destroyed right before her eyes, he moved her up the tower as if she was heading to sleep, but it was unlike for a creature such as this one to give pleasure to its host. When she reached the top of the stairs, he opened the doors to the balcony, and called upon the citizens of Greenwood.

“Of course this is what you’re doing, you simply can’t just do this to an innocent pony.” Twilight said to the voice in her head.

“Well what do you think I’m doing, I’m destroying an guilty pony. One that has treated her kingdom like a pack of slave for the past month. Why would I let a monster like you continue on?”

He did make a good point, but it wasn’t valid enough for Twilight, she took a moment to think before he gave off his big speech. All she needed to do was let go, she really believed that this would work, so she took a deep breath in her own mind, and thought about her friends. That’s all she cared about, and he could never take them away from her, the pain slowly faded as her mouth opened to speak.

“You will not rule over my body anymore, YOU ARE BANISHED!” The voice faded slowly away, she looked down at the city who awaited a speech from their princess.

“Everypony, citizens of my empire. There was an intruder to our kingdom, and caused some terrible things, but he is gone now. A parasite was he, destroyed my reputation. Forced all of the ponies in this city to work for nothing, put me into unbelievable pain beyond that I’ve felt before. This pony was after what he claim was his, but is ours. He planned on terrible things that will never happen, and infiltrated only by magic, no real form showed itself from the shadows in which it came. This pony will try to reach me more, but I will not let such a thing happen again. I’m sorry for all the hard days everypony had worked to try and make the beast feel better, but no more shall you ponies do work for me. You shall only do work for your own selves. Work hard everyday to buy yourself new, and work hard for those you love. I’m now officially pulling all of taxes out of the picture, I will make my own money to put this kingdom together. Throw fundraisers for things we will need, but no longer will you have to server me like you have before, no go take a day off for now. You’ve all done your best, and have a good night.”

She looked around the castle only to find that the beast did minimal damage to the things she really loved, she met up with her friends as they all gave her a group hug before she could go into detail. The potion she had taken from Zecora had being switched with one that gave another pony control over you as long as they took things you loved away from you. This was known as a want parasite, for warlords to tear their enemies apart using their emotions. The voice slowly faded back in as Twilight starred into the sky, she was unsure if it was coming from inside or outside her head. When she saw a small white dot expand in the sky she knew that she wasn’t the only pony hearing the voice slowly fade in, the dot expanded itself more and more until it covered the whole sky. A pony blacker than night, fangs instead of teeth and shattered eyes appeared. Twilight had seem him before, this wasn’t pleasant for anypony to see, he was a terrifying pony. Not only was he scary in his physical form, but he wore massive sets of armor that supported his deep voice that shot into everypony’s ears as they tried to cover them, he spoke very loudly and very clearly.

“This kingdom is mine, your land is mine. Your lives are worthless.”

“Why don’t you pull yourself from your own shadows to fight like a real mare.” Shouted Wolf Tongue

The massive magical hologram turned toward the voice, and spoke “You really think I’m so stupid to pull myself from the shadows against your monstrous army, you will be seeing me very soon.”

The image dissipated, and formed a black eye in the sky watching over the kingdom. Twilight glanced to her friends who's mouths gaped at the site of the shattered eye in the sky. The terrifying red shattered eye blinked every five minutes, and never moved from the spot it looked at. The red moved like fire, the black darker than a black hole, and the cracks like a shattered mirror. The ponies looked deep into the eye only to find the most terrifying thing to them, this eye was cursed with an evil magic. Twilight would need some help from other ponies to block the sight of it from the sky, and decided to take a small trip to the crystal empire leaving her friends to manage the ponies again.