The Equestria Healing Process

Chapter 10

     “Tirek’s Judgment Day”

All the princesses and Twilight's friends could do was watch as the royal guards magically carried Tirek’s cage into the throne room.  It was the first time since his defeated that he had been inside the throne room and the royal guards were determined to make him see that any trace of his rampage was gone.  However, Discord could see that he was the one who changed the stained glass windows, so he was partially to blame for the damages that were done to Canterlot Castle.  Shining Armor then used his magic to force Tirek to turn his head towards the stained glass depiction of Twilight’s coronation, which he melted before heading out to hunt her down.

“You see that?” said the guard to the heavily imprisoned centaur.  “You thought that you could destroy the depiction of a princess coronation, the coronation of my little sister?  Well, you didn’t succeed, it’s back and it is going to stay there!”

Tirek didn’t respond as the prince of the Crystal Empire forced him to look dead ahead at the princesses and Twilight's friends, who all scowled at the sight of the monster who had imprisoned three of them in Tartarus and terrorized the fourth and her friends.  Setting him down before the princesses, Shining Armor and the guards bowed and left Tirek alone with only the princesses, Discord, his brother and Twilight's friends for company.  Celestia was the first to stand from the throne and walked down the steps towards Tirek’s cage with a look of hatred deep in her eyes.

“Lord Tirek,” she said with authority in her voice.  “You are hereby charged with capital crimes against Equestria and its citizens.  In doing so, you have ruined the lives of unicorns,Pegasus and Earth Ponies alike.  How can you justify yourself for all you have done?”

But, Tirek didn’t respond and the princess of the sun raised her horn and activated her magic, causing the chains holding Tirek’s arms to twist and cause the centaur to scream in pain.  This caused Twilight and Fluttershy to wince in pain, although Twilight felt that what her mentor was doing was branding her own brand of justice on Tirek.

“Answer me and we won’t do methods like this to you,” snarled Celestia and at that moment, Tirek finally gave in to Celestia’s demands and released her grip on him.  The centaur growled as Celestia continued to circle around him like a vulture to a dead carcass.

“I don’t have to explain myself to the likes of any of you,” retorted Tirek, trying to stay defiant.  “It is my destiny to plunge Equestria into darkness and become its ruler and no princess or any other creature will have the power to stop me.”

But, Celestia was unmoved by this and much like she was when he was mocking her and the other princesses, she remained defiant.  Celestia then used one of her hooves to kick the cage and cause Tirek to shake inside.

“I told you that you will not prevail, Tirek,” continued Celestia as Discord produced a judge’s gavel and bench with his magic.  “And when we say things like that to you, then we mean it.  You tried to banish us to Tartarus because you wanted us to fear what you experienced and here we are, back where we belong and you are going to suffer the consequences of your actions.”

Celestia then walked back up the steps towards her throne and sat back down in it.  Next, Luna came down and being a former villain herself, she realized that Tirek was someone who could not be like her.  The Princess of the Night growled as Tirek struggled to activate his magic.  He wanted to drain the alicorn princesses of their magic again, but he couldn’t.

“Trying to activate your magic draining powers?” said Luna sarcastically.  “You won’t be doing that anymore, vile villain.  Prior to being brought here, Discord cast a spell that would keep you from doing such a thing.  In other words, we have magic and you have nothing.”

Tirek then looked up to the magically created judge's bench as Discord blew a raspberry at him in a mocking manner.  This caused Tirek to snarl and glare at the master of chaos who was once his partner in crime

“You are not going to get away with this!” roared Tirek, trying to make a statement.  “When I get out of here, you will all be the first to feel my wrath before I take your powers and use them to drain the magic from all the other inhabitants of Equestria once again.”

But, the princesses were not going to let that happen and Celestia once again used her magic to twist Tirek’s arms again.  The centaur snarled at the elder princess as Cadence looked away in fear.  Tirek then saw this as an opportunity to mock her, being that she was once a captive of Queen Chrysalis herself.

“Are you afraid of me, Princess Cadence?” he asked mockingly.  “Are you afraid that I am going to take you away from your husband again.  You know, the pony whose magic I ate like a fireball?"

This made Cadence cross and the normally calm princess of love leapt into the air and raised her horn, firing a blast of her magic at his arm, causing him to groan and snarl in pain.   Her sudden outburst struck fear into Celestia and Luna, causing them to worry for Cadence’s well-being.  In fact, this made Twilight's friends feel shocked at Cadence's sudden anger.

"That's going too far," thought Applejack, who covered her face with her hat.  "You know better than to say something like that, Tirek!"

But, Tirek didn't listen as he glared at the angry Princess of Love, who had a look of rage deep in her face.

“Don’t you dare talk about me and Shining Armor like that!” snapped Cadence, her horn glowing in rage, ready to take another shot.  “Say something like that again and I will defeat you the same way I defeated King Sombra when he tried to retake the Crystal Empire!”

“Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, stand down,” said Celestia firmly, trying to maintain order in the throne room.  “You need to conserve your magic.”

Cadence lowered her magic and scowled at the imprisoned Tirek as she walked back up to Celestia's side.  After all, Cadence carried deeply about all those that were closest to her and to hear Tirek mock her and Shining Armor like that was crossing the line.

“Why would you need to conserve your magic, Celestia?” asked Tirek, still talking in a mocking voice.  “Are you trying to fully charge it so that I could take it from you?”

To prove he wasn’t kidding, Tirek attempted to activate his magic draining powers again.  But, as he tried, he could see that it wasn’t working and Luna and Celestia both smiled slyly at him.  Tirek roared in frustration as the two elder princesses stood before him.

“It’s like I said, Lord Tirek, your magic draining spell has been permanently disabled,” chuckled Luna, whacking her hoof on the left side of the cage.  “Nopony will ever fear you again when we are done with you.”

At that moment, Twilight saw this as an opportunity to step down and confront the monster who had made her his primary target and was the one who had destroyed her home.  Twilight walked down and like her fellow princesses, scowled at Tirek with a look of hatred in her eyes.  While Celestia, Luna and Cadence were imprisoned in Tartarus, Twilight and her friends had suffered the worst of Tirek’s wrath, since he had used Twilight’s friends to gain the alicorn magic that she was keeping inside her.

“Everything that the princesses are saying to you is true, Tirek,” said Twilight as she stood in front of her worst enemy.  “When you broke free of your prison in Tartarus, you were thinking that by draining everypony’s magic, you will make yourself the one true being in Equestria.  Instead, with each pony you and Discord attacked, you only made yourself weaker instead of stronger!”

Tirek was not going to have any more of this demoralization that he was experiencing and he wanted to silence her, but the other princesses would have none of it.  Hearing his name made Discord wince a little bit while Scorpan looked over and placed a paw on him to calm him down.

“How dare you talk back to me like that, Princess Twilight?!” roared Tirek, trying to clutch one of his fists in fury.  “I took your alicorn magic and imprisoned your fellow princesses, so you should fear me!”

“We don’t fear you, Tirek,” said Celestia, staring at Tirek from her throne.  “We never did fear you.  Even when you were mocking us before you sent us to Tartarus, we still didn’t fear you.”

Then, Twilight spoke next with a few more choice words for Tirek concerning their alicorn magic.

“And there is something else that you should know,” continued Twilight, her horn glowing with her own alicorn magic.  “I recently learned from Princess Celestia, that the plan to transfer the alicorn magic into me was really a trap that we set for you, so that my friends and I could open the chest that came from the tree of harmony.  I have a castle of my very own now because of it and if you think that my home at the Golden Oak Library is gone for good because of you destroying it, then you are wrong. It will one day return and it will be stronger than ever! You destroy my books, I will replace them; you destroy my dresses, my friends Rarity and Fluttershy will recreate them; you destroy my pictures, I will receive new ones from those who shared those moments with me. In other words, I will one day regain everything that I lost and we will become stronger than ever.  Only this time, you won’t be here to see us become stronger than ever because you do not something that we have and that is the magic of friendship!"

Discord was moved by this speech of Twilight's, since the night before, Twilight was upset over the loss of her former home.  A small tear came down his face upon hearing those words.  Of course, like all the others before him, Tirek viewed this as nothing more than mindless babbling.

“Consider this a warning to whoever you meet in your new prison,” said Twilight, her wings spreading out, as she fired a blast at Tirek's chest.  “The power and magic of friendship will always prevail and it is a power that is greater than all the magic you stole, Tirek!”

“ENOUGH!” roared Tirek, his roar causing one of the windows to crack slightly.  “No matter what you say, I will one day return to finish what I had started and every Earth, Unicorn, Pegasus and Alicorn pony will bow to my will and there will be nothing you can do to stop me!”

“SILENCE!” roared Luna and the interior of the throne room rumbled upon hearing her scream.  “You have said enough, Lord Tirek!”

At that moment, Celestia once again stepped forward and was soon joined by Cadence, still looking to blast some of her magic at Tirek for mocking her and Shining Armor.  At that moment, all four princesses surrounded the cage with their magic auras glowing much more brighter than normal, because of the anger that was inside of them.

“Lord Tirek, we have brought you here to pass judgment for your crimes and we pass it now,” thundered Celestia as the four princesses raised their magic powered horns right at Tirek.

“You are hereby sentenced to eternal torture in Tartarus at the hands of Cerberus," said Celestia and at that moment the four princesses passed their judgment as Discord banged the judge's gavel.

Tirek knew at that moment that he had been truly defeated.  He was being sent back to Tartarus, but not just as a prisoner, but as a war criminal against Equestria and he knew that eternal torture by Cerberus was only reserved for the worst offenders of Equestria.

At that moment, Celestia, Luna, Cadence and Twilight surrounded Tirek's cage and with their eyes glowing white, they fired their magic blasts at Tirek, striking him in whatever part of his body was being targeted.  At that moment, the once mighty centaur began to feel fear for the first time in his life and attempted to call on his brother to help him out of the situation that he now found himself.

“Scorpan!” he called out to his brother who just stood there along with Twilight's friends, satisfied by what he was seeing in front of him.  “Brother, help me!”

But, neither Scorpan, nor Discord didn’t respond to his cries as the force of magic from the four princesses grew stronger and stronger with each amount of anger that was being put in their magic beams.

“Long live the king,” he said satisfyingly as the magic beams consumed Tirek’s body and the centaur was sent screaming out of his cage, body and soul, into the sky above as the magic consumed the throne room.  The beam of magic carrying Tirek flew out of the throne room through the roof and into the sky before turning back down towards the caves of Tartarus where Tirek's sentence would be carried.

After a moment, the bright white light disappeared and the four princesses ceased their magic.  However, as their magic ceased, both Discord and Scorpan along with Twilight's friends were horrified to see them collapse and fall to their sides.  However, Twilight was able to rebound quickly while her fellow princesses were not so lucky.  Unfortunately, as quickly as she was to attempt to rally, Twilight fell over in exhaustion from overusing her magic, more so than when she had all of the alicorn magic.

“Princesses!” they all gasped as they all ran over to their side.  The two former partners of Tirek looked over to see the four princesses lying unconscious and looking down, they saw Celestia and Luna’s manes once again no longer flowing and all four of their cutie marks were once again gone.  Twilight's friends were also horrified by what they saw and ran over to their fallen friend as Shining Armor dashed into the throne room as well, running towards his unconscious wife.

Tirek was once again gone for good and his reign of terror was over, but the damage of sending him to eternal torture in Tartarus was already done…