Chaotic Wind

Twilight Sparkle nervously walked back and forth muttering to herself, she wore a formal violet shirt that almost matched her coat with some dark lavender pants. Her assistant, Spike, sat on a nearby sofa thinking carefully on what to say to calm her down, with his growth spurt that has hit him years ago he was almost as tall as an average mare, not to mention his wings had grown too.

They recently got an urgent letter from Princess Celestia and as usual of Twilight she got overly histeric over it like with all the other letters, but given that with the news of the Crystal Empire blown up and that their rulers had disappeared it was justified.

“Calm down Twilight,” Spike finally spoke up “Cadence and Shining are just fine, all we can do now is wait for Discord to come back with news.” Truth to be told, a part of him doesn’t think they could have made it, but he brushed those thoughts aside.

“Oh yeah sure, why not?!” Twilight stopped and glared at him. She hadn’t had much time to rest and it shows just by looking at her “I mean it’s not like my big brother and sister in law are possibly in some kind of danger and could be seriously hurt or worse!”

Spike stared back without saying a word and let her calm down crossing his arms. She was breathing in and out before her expression saddened. Spike got up and gave her a hug while patting her back.

Neither of them said anything for the next minutes, the only sound that was heard was Twilight’s weeping. She cried on her assistant’s shoulder until she pulled away, wiped her own tears and sat down on the sofa with him.

“Thank you Spike.” Her voice wavered as she sniffed.

“It’s no problem, you did the same for me years ago.” Spike winced and growled slightly at the memory of that day.

“You mean when Rarity-”

“Yep,” He cut her off and glared somewhere else “Well, you and Sweetie Belle to be exact.”

“Yeah, but that was so low of her. Lying just so she could have a stand with another rich stallion, I still remember how exactly the scolding I gave her went.”

Spike visibly grinned, from what Twilight had told him she went as harsh as she could possibly be on that day. She had crushed his heart so hard that he was left depressed and Twilight took the initiative to talk to her immediately.

Of course her sister wasn’t left out, she was also angry at her and dedicated herself to make time for Spike, since then the two had become great friends. Rarity tried to redeem herself by acting more romantic towards him, but the damage was made and he ignored her advances.

At times he would hang out with the other crusaders as well and spend time with Spike more than anyone else did, eventually getting him out of his depression.

The sound of the door slamming open had startled the both of them, making them realise that they were spacing out remembering the past. Rainbow Dash flew in with her cyan jacket and jeans with dark blue undershirt.

“Twilight, we got trouble.” She flew up to Twilight with a distressed face.

The three hurried up towards the town square as fast as they could, there they found a mare covered in a black cloak sitting in a magically conjured seat, her foot tapping on the ground impatiently.

Looking closely they saw other ponies hiding in either their home or in a safe spot that could be found, hiding in fear of from this newcomer.

“What’s happening here?” Twilight asked while Rainbow and Spike glared at the cloaked pony.

“It’s been a long time,” The hooded pony responded as she stood up and lowered down her hood. Everyone gasped to see Trixie grinning at them with her horn shining bright “Twilight Sporkle.”

“Sparkle.” Twilight corrected her.

“Sporkle.” Trixie repeated with venom emphasised on that sentence.

Taking her eyes off Twilight for a moment, Trixie found the other things that she had come back here for, the two stupid colts that attracted the Ursa to the town. Her grin turned into a scowl and teleported in front of them to give them a deadly glare.

“You…” Before any of them could say anything, Trixie grabbed them by their throats with her magic. The other three stood frozen at Trixie’s sudden cruelty as she kept choking the life out of them.

“Trixie, stop!” Twilight rushed towards her, but before she could do anything she was blasted by a magic blast at short range, tumbling towards the ground as both Spike and Rainbow went to her help.

‘She has gotten better and meaner, that’s for sure.’ She thought as her friends helped her get up. Snips and Snails were kept on Trixie’s grip and she isn’t showing any signs on stopping.

“Stop picking up on my friends Trixie, leave them out of this!” Twilight tried to reason one more time.

“Humph,” Trixie looked back and forth between the groups, finally deciding to drop the foals and turn towards Twilight as the colts run away “Very well, you’re one of the unfinished business I have to resolve anyway Twilight.” She started to approach Twilight slowly with a hateful glare on her face “You and me. A magi duel. Winner stays, loser is banished from Ponyville.”

“Forget it!” Twilight responded quickly “I’ll never agree to that. Besides, I have more important things to do.”

“Like worrying about them?” Trixie grinned maliciously as her eyes flashed red for a moment and her horn shone again. A flash of light appeared behind her before it quickly disappeared. They froze in shock a second time when they say that Trixie had conjured a cage big enough to fit in multiple ponies, said ponies who were inside was what had shocked them.

Inside were the missing Princess Cadence and Prince Shining Armor, both injured and with an empty expression.

Twilight only stared while the tears flowed free, they were injured and captive, but they were alive. A part of her is happy to know that, but another part of her is freaking out at what Trixie might have done to them. Wait, she couldn’t have…

“Trixie,” Twilight tried to fight the tears “You didn’t…”

“I had to test my rightly earned magic somehow Twilight.” Trixie chuckled as a shadow was cast on her face “So what do you say Sporkle? If you want them to be freed, you have to beat me in a duel, there is no other way.”

Both Spike and Rainbow were about to charge at Trixie before they were stopped by Twilight’s arms. She silently nodded to them and turned back to Trixie, eyes gazing at Cadence and Shining both sitting on the cage unmoving as they stared into space.

“Alright Trixie,” Twilight glared at Trixie trying to control herself “Let’s duel!”

Rainbow and Spike both stepped away to give room for these two to duel. Trixie positions herself as Twilight does so too, the deafening silence taking over. Both mares stared each other down without moving a muscle, Twilight had been visibly sweating. It was hard to believe that Trixie had gained such massive power, but there was little room for doubt when the rulers for the former empire were caged in a zombie like state.

After moments of silently waiting, the duel between the showmare and the element of magic starts with the breaking of silence.

“Draw!”

Okay, so this city looks like it’s about midnight even though it is foggy as fuck in here though. The next target I’m looking for should be around this motherfucking cobblestone street that with it’s barely lit lights, one can barely see shit.

I jump down to the street and immediately I hear something making a metallic sound somewhere near me, it’s getting motherfucking close. I innocently start walking at the opposite side of the source of the sound, whistling happily until I bump into a dark cloaked figure that is half as tall as me, perfect.

“Watch where you’re going, will you?” I started.

“Well well, aren’t you unique?” Old and quivery masculine voice, he hasn’t gotten far enough yet, not that it fucking matters if he does mind you “I am Lord Tirek, and I will take what is rightfully mine.”

“Yeah, no.” I said before punching him in the jaw as he fully opened his mouth, he reeled back and groaned as he gripped his jaw “Pleasure to motherfucking meet you,” I crack my knuckles as I grinned at his weak form “I am Lord Vaati, official ultimate ass raper of existence, both figuratively and literally.”

I crossed my arm as Tirek recovered from the blow and wobbled towards me “You remind me of Discord a little, but you seem more-”

“Serious? Stronger?”

“You could say those. You are certainly more strong minded than both my brother and Discord,” Oh fuck, here we go. This motherfucker thinks I’ll let him off and let him live, I know his type “You are far more capable than both of them were, I see great potential in you Vaati. Help me grow strong, and be rewarded with riches and as many mares as you like. Once I’ve stolen all their magic, they will be helpless against you.”

“Are you done yet?” I yawned as he took a step back and tilted his head “If I wanted all that shit, I wouldn’t be here wasting my motherfucking time with you, now begone.” I grabbed him by one of his frail bones, throwing him into the night sky and pointing at him with the middle finger to make him explode in a gory fashion.

With his blood and guts raining over the city now, I figured it was time to take flight yet again. One of my minions, or puppets better said, should be on Ponyville causing a shitstorm right now, so that leaves me with enough time for one last stop.

The badlands.