The Witch King Rises Again

Angmar watched as his tower took shape. He recognized the design of the tower he was creating. It was similar to Isengard, but only the tower. Instead of bothering with a wall (he was on a mountain side so it didn't seem necessary) he decided to extend the caverns within the mountain with some of the iron. Then added more structures on the side of the mountain and attached them to the main tower with bridges. It was a fortress that he knew none who valued their lives would dare approach. At least without an army behind them, and that's why he made sure to leave enough excess metal to have golems at the ready in hollowed out inlets in the walls that were in every hallway. This was a place he could live in. Without Sauron he could do whatever he wanted, he didn't have to listen to anyone. He is the witch king. He had been able to create an army and a fortress within his first week of being in a new world, or his creation of a world due to his possible insanity. At least those irritating ponies wouldn't try finding him if they saw this new abode. He hoped anyway. He had made sure to make the top of the tower an easily accessed place that Alduin could reside. Using his staff he set up wards to warn him of any who came near or in his castle.

He was admiring his work while sitting in the throne he had made in one of the main halls of the tower when his wards were triggered. He delve deeper and found that it was only one being. 'WHAT?? What idiotic whelp would dare enter alone?!?' He stood up and began to search for the disturbance with his magic. He searched and searched where the ward had been triggered and down the hallways. Nothing, he went over his wards and found nothing wrong with the wards. 'Something's off.' As he was walking away from his throne to go and find this disturbance himself, black smoke began to swirl  between him and the door to the room. After a second the smoke dispersed to reveal a grey unicorn with a black mane and a crystal on his flank. Angmar could only sigh of irritation. 'Why is nothing interesting able to muster the courage to face me?'

"Greetings creature." The unicorn said with a smug smile. Angmar simply stood there silently watching the unicorn with a slight feeling of confusion. "I see you aren't one for introductions. So I will make this easy for your simple structure. I want you to be in my army of darkness. With your magic I could rule this feeble and pitiful land and turn it into the empire it could be!"

'Oh great another dark lord who wants minions to take over the world. Well this time He at least doesn't have anything to offer me, or else he wouldn't be asking for my help. Maybe I can teach this worthless whelp some manners then maybe present his corpse as a message for those intolerable ponies to stay away.' With that in mind, Angmar began to laugh, it started as a sinister chuckle, and grew into a full on cackle, sounding terrifying with his distorted voice from the constant exposure to dark magic.

The unicorn was slightly confused at this new turnout, but he eventually matched his laughter. Angmar only laughed more from this. He figured that this unicorn probably thought that he was agreeing with him. Angmar regained his composure and simply clicked his fingers. The unicorn immediately stopped laughing as he heard the click, and turned to the walls to see five golems on each side that he thought were statues walk out of their indents and bring their swords into a ready position. The unicorn turned back to Angmar.

"What is the meaning of this!" Angmar watched the horn of the unicorn turn into a curved red crystal.

"Voglogat glob." (Reducing the filth) Angmar raised his hand grasping the unicorn in his magic, lifted him over a circular pattern on the floor and sending him through the foot thick metal enjoying the pained yells of the unicorn breaking all of his legs, the metal screeching due to the sudden pressure and it's new hole that Angmar would repair later. The last thing he heard before he descended through the hole was the sound of six different voices screaming.

Twilight had gone to follow the ghastly figure when the morning came around and Luna had left to inform her sister of what had conspired that night.They had searched for the better part of the day when they got to the mountain that was across the Everfree from Ponyville. They were about to turn around when the saw a shine coming from somewhere near the top of the mountain. Twilight called her friends over and they all gasped at what they were seeing. A castle was flowing into existence. They quickened their pace and went up the mountain path. It had taken them a while before the reached a large, black, iron door, The door itself was menacing. She looked at her friends and they all looked unnerved about the door also.

"We need to find him, who knows what he could do." Twilight said still surprised about the sudden castle.

"Well, we know it can use magic without a horn." Rainbow said, getting her ass handed to her still wasn't sinking in totally with her.

"And it grow fortress's." Applejack added.

"And stand it being so barbaric." Rarity joined in.

"A-a-a-a-and has a DRAGON!" Fluttershy screamed while pointing to the top of the tower. Sure enough there was a dragon flying around the tower.

Their jaws dropped again. They rushed inside as fast as they could when it reared its' head to them. Surprisingly it had been unlocked. 'Is he expecting us?' Twilight thought, and quickly dismissed it. It couldn't know we were coming. So why are the doors unlocked?' Twilight went through some scenarios and could only think of one. That somepony else was already there. She shook her head to get rid of that idea, and continued through the halls with her friends. They had been searching for a little while when the came into a large room and heard voices and laughter above. It was the laughter that made blood freeze in her veins. She recognized both of the voices. The fear in all of them spiked when the heard a voice that they all knew.

"What is the meaning of this!" That had to be Sombra, and he was yelling with all his strength. More laughter and the heard ten clunks of metal hitting metal. And a moment later Sombra burst through the floor, legs broken and heavily bruised and battered. They screamed. Then Angmar followed the beaten unicorn, intending to end it. Twilight used her magic to move Sombra out of the wraith's way before his body became mush.

"SOMBRA, what are you doing here! You were destroyed back in the Crystal Empire!" Twilight shrieked as the unicorn was nearing unconsciousness.

"Stay back, weakling!" Sombra tried to keep his powerful voice but it was more of a wheeze than anything.

Twilight turned to Angmar and felt the familiar sense of fear she had when it had first arrived. "W-What do you want with him?" Twilight asked Angmar. "Umm- and can you please speak like us?" Twilight wondered if now was the time for demands, it wasn't.

Angmar was impressed by Twilight, well, to an extent. She had asked him to do something without to much fear in her voice, bravo. Angmar decided it would help them all, so he searched his mind, searched for a way he could learn how to speak their language and not just understand it. His ring gave him his answer, if he raked one of their minds then he could absorb their ability to speak as well. He looked over the ponies and decided that the one that originally intruded should be the one to go through the torture, it was probably going to burn this 'Sombra's' mind. Angmar didn't care though, Sombra had tried to put himself above the witch king! This should be fun.

He pointed his hand to Sombra who visibly shrunk his broken body. Chains erupted around the unicorn and bound him to the floor. Angmar swiftly walked to the unicorn and knelt by him and put his right hand on the bound unicorn's head. None of them dared stop him, and the one that tried couldn't due to broken bones and chains. Angmar searched through Sombra's memories listening to the screams of the unicorn, he found the memory he was looking for and took all that he could from it. Angmar wasn't done yet, he was going to teach this pony a lesson he will never forget. He pricked every memory the Sombra had, creating screams of pain from the unicorn, he found some information in magic and the way that the royalty system worked and how he had come to power and lost said power and tried to retake it, and fail. It was entertaining to see this 'all powerful' unicorn fail and be denied the power he tried to obtain. For good measure, Angmar went through the memories again to look for anything that he missed (and torture the broken unicorn further). After about an hour of scouring Sombra's mind he released the pained mind. He heard a gasp for air come from Sombra as he released the chains. Angmar stood and faced the rest of the ponies.

"You will hold your tongue in my presence whelp." Angmar pointed to Twilight. Angmar liked the way he spoke their language as he would his own, with the voice of a thousand souls.

They all recoiled when he spoke. "Y-You can speak Equestrian!?" Twilight said even more fear in her voice from the scene of torture and the newly gained ability that Angmar had.

"Of course I can, coward! Why else would I bother to learn you language, if not to speak it?" When Twilight didn't answer he continued. Tell me then 'Princess' Twilight, why would you protect this worthless infidel? Angmar had learned that if they had both wings and a horn they were counted as royalty, so he added venom to the word.

"I-uh-I--" Twilight didn't know, she didn't like Sombra and Angmar knew that. "He doesn't deserve to die. He had been destroyed as a result of uncontrollable magic. He deserves to face trial." Twilight began to levitate what was left of the unicorn over to her and the other five. "He will come with us."

"Pray tell, how will you do that? As long as he is in my castle, he is under MY jurisdiction. I will make you a deal, leave him and I will let you leave, try and take him and you will be stuck here until you give him up or you die. Angmar finished just as he made his ten sentinels jump from the hole in the ceiling and landed one at a time and created a barrier between him and the seven ponies. Angmar levitated himself so that he hovered above and behind his guards. "Now, choose."

Twilight looked at her friends for advice, they had none to give but the looks on their faces told her that they all were afraid of what could happen. Twilight bowed in defeat. Looking back a Angmar, head still down, she said. "Alright. You win." Twilight began to float Sombra towards Angmar.

"NO!!" A silent Sombra finally spoke up, his now normal horn glowed red and in a flash he teleported away.

'Oh, they can teleport, I hadn't put up any wards against that kind of magic.' He thought to himself. He growled at Twilight. "It seems our deal might need to be altered, due to recent events." As he spoke he wove transportation spell-inhibiting wards around his castle.

Twilight tried to teleport away with her friends but the wards Angmar had just put down prevented her. She once again lowered her head. "What do you want?"

"I want that sack of scum here in my deepest and darkest dungeon room slowly dieing by my hand! But I feel I cannot get that from you, no iron in your veins. I want you to tell me when you find him and where he is. I will be sending scouts throughout your land to track him and if any so much as touch them they will be killed on the spot! DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR!"

Twilight could tell that it was very, no insanely angry with this turn of events. This was going to be the only way she would likely get her friends home safely. "I will send guards to search for Sombra, but I must ask you to not simply kill him. This has to be handled in a more civilized manor, we can compensate for whatever this loss may cause you."

Angmar paused. "If you speak the truth, then fine! But I promise you I will one day find him in my dungeons, and he will beg for his life! Angmar swung his hand at the doors to the room. "Now get out of my sight before I change my mind."

The six of them scurried away, Twilight tried to hide the fear in the speed she was walking from him, but was in an all-out run by the time Angmar shut the doors behind her.

Angmar then proceeded to fix the hole he had made, and get the golems to clean the blood.