Chapters Cadence tumbled into her room, exhausted. She had used a lot of energy to manage that shield spell that banished Chrysalis and her Changelings. The princess of Love collapsed onto her bed, tired. Once her head hit the pillow, she was fast asleep.
Nightmare
On the moon, I watched the princess of Love from my crystal ball, which doubled as a teleporter. I said, "'Transport me to the princess of love's bedroom chambers." The crystal ball glowed neon blue, and sucked me into it. On my way, armor covered me from head to toe. When it finished, I was in Cadence's chambers, inside her mind. I hacked into her emotions, twisting them for my use. Cadence shifted in her bed uncomfortably. Next I changed her appearance for my needs, and finally, changed her thoughts. I said to her, "You feel the need to eliminate all of Celestia's objects, and subjects." Cadence shifted uncomfortably again, occasionally muttering, "No!" or "I can't do this, " or "Who are you?" I growled. The princess of Love's mental defenses were strong, but no match for a true alicorn. She might have been born with wings and a horn, but she wasn't a true alicorn. I kept fighting off her defenses only to be met by another wall. She obviously had a lot of mind strength and love.
Cadence
I was having the most adorable dream of Shining when an unknown intruder broke into my mind. She changed everything about me except for my heart. My heart was surrounded by layers and layers and layers of defenses, all coated with love and strong positive feelings. I counted down the layers till my heart. 5...4...3...2...1... I reinforced the last wall, making it tougher to break through than all of my other defenses. The intruder could see that. I shifted uncomfortably and kept muttering things. She finally broke through my to my heart, but unknown to her, my heart was surrounded by a force field of love, much like the one used to defeat Chrysalis. The enemy saw this and rearing back, she let out a huge blast of energy that shattered the force field. Right before she went into my heart, I muttered angrily, "Nightmare Moon..."
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Cadence......
Nightmare Moon, you won't get away with this...
Celestia, I have felt a disturbance in Cadence's dreams.
The deeper she worms, the more we are all in danger...
An alicorn is laying waste to the Crystal Empire!
Me of course.
Twilight
I stared at the corrupted figure in front of me, now just a remote figure of what had been my sister-in-law. She sneered, "A little too late aren't you Princess Twilight Sparkle."
"Cadence, what happened to you?"
"You pathetic alicorn sisters happened to me!" "Didn't you think, with all of Equestria looking up to you three that the fourth would feel envious?" Cadence asked, a little too loudly. Shining Armor appeared from his chamber and asked woozily, "Honey, what's going on?" Cadence took no notice of him and simply put my BBBFF under a sleep spell. "Now, back to business." She said,looking at me. "Cadence-" "I am not Cadence anymore, I am... BLEEDING HEART!" "I can't have you this way Cadence." I said, looking her full in the eye. If I need to cast a star spell, then so be it." I noticed that Cadence, sorry Bleeding Heart backed up. I guess she'd heard of my famous star spells, which would do anything the user desired. So far, only Celestia, Luna, and I knew how to access these spells, but it was I that had most control over them. I raised my eyes to my stars and my eyes started to glow whitish-silver. I was then surrounded by all the other stars not in the pattern I had created. My horn sparked and a huge ball of magic began to fly towards Cadence. She formed a shield around her but then it broke. My star spell was too strong. It hit her and she fell over. I then commanded the spell to search her and find Nightmare, then cast her out. It found a speck of Nightmare Moon and cast it out. Then, it returned to my horn, and the stars to their rightful places. Bleeding heart became Cadence once again, but then, my star spell backfired and Cadence stood up again, once more Bleeding Heart. All I could think was, 'How did my star spell go wrong?' Bleeding Heart answered, "You sent the stars back up too quickly," she said, growing taller, and now, I have absorbed the power from your star spell. All I could say was, "Oh no..."
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"Cadence?"
Didn't you notice the fourth alicorn getting more and more jealous as the zealous Equestria looked up to the alicorn sisters?"
" I am not Cadence, I am... BLEEDING HEART!"
I absorbed the power of your star spell.
"Cadence, don't do this, this isn't the real you!"
"Uh oh..."
Cadence
I teleported Twilight back to her castle, and because she was now out of the way, I continued wreaking havoc on the Crystal Empire. First, I stormed into the castle. I changed everything to represent me. The crystals, dark purple-pink, the lights, neon blue, and the floor tiles, silver. I then used my corruptive influence to change the thoughts of the crystal ponies, changing them from crystal to blood ponies, a fearsome warrior race with blood red irises with vertical pupils, blood red coats, and no cutie marks. They were separated into half Pegasus, half unicorn, and one alicorn, which was me. They all wore silver armor like mine, of the best qualitly, and had equally fast strength, spell-casting, and flying speeds. I then changed the library's griffons into blood pony designs, and all the furniture was more delicate, in a word, my style.
The library's book now all had blood red covers, and the castle flag was a blood-stained sword through Celestia on a blood red background. I stepped back to admire my work. It was finished
Twilight
I had no idea what Cadence had done to me, but when I came to, I was back in my castle in Baltimore. A grown and concerned Spike stared down at me, one wings wrapped around me protectively. His emerald green eyes stared at me, piercing right through my spirit. He said, "Twily, are you okay?" I replied softly, "I'm fine Spike." "Is there anything I can get for you?" Spike asked. I thought, 'Still the same baby dragon who used to work in Golden Oaks, but now grown and dwarfs me.' Spike said, "I don't know how you came here, but one minute I'm lying down, reading, and suddenly, I'm in this position, my wing wrapped around me." He then said, "I'll go get you some water." He dumped me on the ground softly and walked to the pantry. He gave me the cup of warm water and walked away.
I sat on the table in the room and began my letter.
"Dear Princess' Celestia and Luna,
I have recently made a terrible discovery.
Our friend, the alicorn Cadence, has turned evil for no abrupt reason.
I wish to see you so we can talk about this. As for Cadence, She is Equestria knows where. She could still be in the Crystal Empire, but I doubt that and I think she is on her way to pony ville. Please send some of your guards to cut her off immediately.
Your sister,
Princess Twilight Sparkle
I ignited my horn after finishing the message. Using a safe-spell, I teleported the letter to Canterlot. It would take time, but would be successful . I slumped on my bed, wings drooping. The dream was terrible, (by my standards of course.) Cadence standing above me, laughing, laughing, as I feebly tried to cast spells that she simply absorbed like Tirek and grew larger, larger, soon, even larger than Celestia knows who! She was soon the size of Celestia times 4, still standing on top of me and growing larger by the second. She ignited her horn, which glowed like blood, and said, "you are finished." She cast a spell, and everything went black.
Celestia
I was sitting on my bed, going through items of interest when suddenly, a flash of neon blue magic and a letter containing the crest of Princess Twilight Sparkle, in other words, my sister appeared on front of me. I levitated it to me, broke the seal and read the note. A gasped as I neared the end of the note. I called to some of my finest guards and said, "Go to Princess Twilight Sparkle in Baltimare and aid her in the task of casting Cadence out of Ponyville. Saluting, the nodded and galloped towards the door, slamming it shut behind them.
Cadence
The wind through my mane was cool and clean, reminding me that me destination was near. As I landed, unicorns, pegasi, Earth Ponies and of course the stupid princess Twilight Sparkle and a bunch of Celestia's guards closed in on me. I flung the first into the second and they ran away screaming. The third was smart enough to let me change her. She got behind me, and using her magic, began shooting the others. Twilight approached me, her eyes showing no mercy, or betraying any emotion whatsoever. She closed in, called the stars down and said, "You're finished Cadence." She ignited her horn, the stars swirling around it, and shot it towards me.
Rainbow Dash
The explosion was enormous. Twilight walked to her side, her eyes still glowing and searched for Nightmare Moon in Cadence. She found a lake sized puddle and shot it out, back to the moon. The rest was still inside, but the star spell was complete. She sent the stars up and Cadence stood up. But something was wrong. She turned back into Bleeding Heart and said something I couldn't comprehend. Then I blacked out as something hit my head
Blood Pony
My mistress, Bleeding Heart was comatose for a moment and then stood up again, strong once more. I crept up behind Twilight's friend, Rainbow Dash, and with a smack of my hoof, she was gone. Bleeding Heart approched me and cast her spell. Rainbow stood up, her blood red coat gleaming in the night and said,"So where are we going next?" Bleeding Heart said,
"To eliminate all of Ponykind in Ponyville." She grinned and started flying away.
Luna
I woke up in my bed with a start. I rushed into Celestia's room and shook her awake. "I have felt a disturbance in Cadence's dream. Celestia stood up immediately. "Then we must waste no time. The deeper she worms, the more we are all in danger..."
Nightmare
I had successfully taken Cadence. I told her, "Call yourself something, you are no longer Cadence." Yes..." She replied. "I am Bleeding Heart." Cadence's new self was purple pink with silver armor and neon blue eyes. Her cutie mark was now that of a red crystal heart with thorns under it, not gold streaks . Her mane was now longer and more flowing, streaked with thin lines of yellow. Her horn ignited with fury. The color was the color of a broken heart. Her teeth had also sharpened into fangs. She let out an evil laugh. "Time to wreak some havoc. She said. The change in her voice was amazing. It was still Cadence's but had now a harsh tone to it..
Twilight
My stars glowed nicely. Tonight I had done them in a pattern that ponies appreciated. Oops, I forgot to tell you. I am the alicorn of stars. My purple lavender coat had changed into a light indigo. my eyes were neon blue, and so was my magic. I wore silver everything from my crown to my hoofshoes. My mane flowed like a river and was violet in color. So was my tail. A poof of green magic, Spike's, I suppose, appeared in front of me, and a scroll of papyrus appeared before my hooves. I unrolled it with my magic and gasped. An alicorn was laying waste to the Crystal empire! I spread my wings and flew there in a matter of minutes. Upon landing I saw that everything was exactly as Spike's letter had said. "" Everything scorched." I thought ' Who could have done this...?" "Me, of course." That was the first time I heard the corrupted voice. I gasped as I saw the figure in front of me.
