“I can do this,” And with a small poof, she ended on the lower edge of the cliff. Proud of her achievement she declared, “See. Ha, perfectly controlled teleportation,” but barely did she finish her words when another surge of magic teleported her to Canterlot castle, then to Neighagra falls, then on top of a buffalo near Appaloosa, then inside a wedge of a cracked boulder near the Everfree.

“Ugh,” She huffed in frustration. Ever since Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Princess Cadence gave her their powers, Twilight’s been having immense trouble controlling either. Feels like four kids fighting over a toy inside of me, she thought, whenever I cast a single spell in either of the four powers, the other three will spill over and the spell overcharges, every single time.

However, her thoughts were interrupted when she heard someone screaming her name. “Tirek,” Twilight gasped.

“You have something that belongs to me!!” Tirek exclaimed before Twilight was able to completely free herself. She then launched herself into the air, and after a quick maneuver, she managed to crash-land right onto his hoof.

“You’re going to give me what I want,” Tirek bellowed at her before activating his siphoning powers. However before he could even tap into hers, Twilight immediately teleported to her balcony, then used her telescope to identify the enemy’s location.

But as soon as she cough sight of him, he launched a massive energy bolt toward her. Gasping, Twilight immediately teleported into the library, grabbed Owlicious then teleported outside just in time when the bolt hits the tree house.

Twilight looked in horror as her once beautiful house was turned into rubble. The place where her fondest memories laid in shatter; her books and research, destroyed. The bitterness of losing such a precious thing left a storm of emotions flood her heart that cannot be described in words.

Revenge, a voice in her head came, yes, I will take my revenge on him.

She let go of her owl, then stood with a new determination, her prey was waiting.

Twilight teleported to where Tirek was, then supercharged her horn before launching an energy beam toward her target. Immediately, something felt odd, the princesses powers have stopped spilling over. If I use my hatred, I gain complete control, She deduced.

Pleased with her discovery, Twilight decided to test her new found strength. she increased the size of her beam until it covered nearly twice Tirek’s size, launching him backward and into a huge explosion.

Tirek looked somewhat surprised, then a smile of recognition flashed on his face, “Now I see what your fellow princesses have done,” immediately he realized what happened, to think that they used the same technique from a thousand years ago. This will be a tough fight, he mused, However, she doesn’t even compare to Starswirl the bearded in terms of control.

Tirek was fazed in that last attack; he launched his strongest energy bolt and she countered with hers, but he barely matched hers in terms of density, causing him to be pushed back with debris falling over him, She is growing stronger still, this is heading the same way as last time.

Tirek thought bitterly over his thousand-year imprisonment and how he got there, as he hoisted himself from under the rubble. At least I have leveraged this time, he thought.

Twilight walked up to him, her gaze ever defying. If this keeps up I might win this she thought. Her mood may have improved due to the direction the battle was heading, however, it did little to calm the wrath she felt, I never knew hatred could be such a powerful driving force.

“It appears we are at an impasse,” Tirek declared, a smile cropping on his face again, “How about a trade, Princess?” with a snap of his fingers, all of Twilight’s friends and Discord appeared in bubbles behind him, “Their release, for all the alicorn magic in Equestria.”

Twilight gasped in disbelief, while her friends disputed to keep her powers and save herself, Tirek bawled, “What’s it going to be? Princess.”

At that moment Twilight’s mind raced into a thousand direction. But before a decision was reached, a voice came to her, calm and subtle, there is a way out, it whispered, use the nightmare. Twilight suddenly felt a small ache in her heart, an image of her friends lying dead in front of her suddenly appeared in her mind, their bodies lifeless, their void eyes staring back at her, and for that moment, she wanted to scream.

“Well?” Tirek roared, snapping Twilight out of her daze. Instead of an answer, however, Twilight delved into that ache, and she felt something that she thought was impossible, a surge of pure unrestricted magic filled her soul like wildfire, the feeling was even stronger than the time when the princesses gave her their powers.

To Tirek’s surprise, Twilight’s horn lit in a unique petroleum blue, what’s this? She’s abandoning her friends! But what is that power? Tirek’s thoughts were suddenly interrupted when Twilight fired a small blue magical bolt against him.

The bolt, however, hit Tirek with a force so great it launched him a few hundred hooves in the air as well as break one of his ribs, forcing him to release his hostages instantly.

Did I just do that? Twilight stood in shock. With just a single strike she managed to save her friends while dealing an impressive amount of damage to her enemy.

“Wow, how did you do that?” Rainbow Dash trotted toward her, clearly impressed.

“I don’t know,” Twilight lied fearing what her friends might think of her powers, however, one of the companions realized what exactly is going on.

“What do you think you are doing?” Discord yelled harshly, though Twilight could clearly see the panic in his eyes, “You know better than to use the nightmare in Luna’s power. You know how dangerous it is and how easily it can corrupt! Please, Twilight I beg of you, lets retreat for now so we can come up with…”

Discord gulped the moment he realized that Twilight’s glare was literally raising the temperature around her, “How dare you,” she growled in a low tune, “How dare you to assume that you could take lead,” her growl became a full roar, “After everything you have done,” Her horn lit up again with that ominous blue color, “I’ll show you, that I don’t need you or anyone else to protect those I love,” Then she flew off.

Tirek barely had time to register what happened, So much power, he barely retained his consciousness during that last attack, Where did she get all that power? He coughed up blood, No, that’s not the real question. Will I be able to defeat her? However his thoughts were interrupted when something struck him under the chin, breaking his jaw while sending him staggering to the ground.

“You dared to harm my friends,” Twilight hovered above him, “Harm my family,” her horn shrouded in an ever greater amount of that blue magic, “Kill my princesses,” A larger blue bolt of magic was forming above her, “You shall pay.”

“Wait, I didn’t kill any...” but before he could finish, Twilight launched the magic missile. Tirek managed to teleport just in time before the missile struck the ground, exploding with an earth-shattering force unseen during the previous skirmish.

This is bad, if I stay here, I might just die. Tirek realized in horror, I need to escape from here and fast.

However before Tirek could move, Twilight was above him, “And where do you think you’re going?”

Twilight stop, Spike thought in dismay as he watched Twilight brutally beat Tirek just an inch of his life, Twilight please stop, He never thought that his Twilight could be so cruel, Tirek’s already finished, Twilight, I’m begging, please stop.

“This is bad, we need to leave, now.” Discord voiced his concern, “If this keeps up, I don’t think we’ll be safe for long.”

“Will yah stop being so darn cryptic and tell us what you know Discord!!” Applejack exclaimed more frightened than irritated.

“Twilight’s been using her hate to combine the powers of the other princesses that was given to her,” Discord replied wearisomely out of character, “that seemed to have awoken the nightmare within Princess Luna’s powers, the more she uses it, the more deluded she’ll become, the more the nightmare becomes more powerful.”

The bearers of harmony gasped, “All is not lost, however, as long as she doesn’t raise the moon there is still a chance to save her," Discord declared, full of determination, "We need the princesses.”

“Then what are we waiting for?” Rainbow Dash jumped in anticipation, fluttering her wings uselessly, “Let’s head to Canterlot RIGHT NOW!!!”

Every pony nodded in agreement, then started trotting toward Ponyville in hopes of finding a way to Canterlot, and hopefully to the princesses, when a sudden realization hit Rarity, “Where is Spike?”

Author's Note

And so begins the most dark, horror filled story of all my stories, don't be fooled by the low key tone of this chapter, this is only the begining.

Also, I just fixed the tenses and the pov to third person for this chapter.