A True Empire

        Once I finally calmed down from my laughing fit, I turned the chains of the two pegasi, a cyan stallion and a yellow mare, to liquid. They soon grouped together and started whispering to one another. As I was about to question what they were talking, they broke out of their group, formed a line in front of me and began to bow.

"My lord," said the purple pony with a declarative tone, "we live to serve you." This caused a great deal of confusion on my part and it must have showed upon my face as the pony soon explained. "According to the Law of Succession, due to the fact that you killed the king," she paused (probably for dramatic effect) after saying the word 'king' with a tone of disgust, "and due to the fact that he had no heirs, you and your bloodline now claim the throne."

"Wait, what?" I questioned with a dumb tone of voice and with a probably similar expression upon my face.

"You are now the leader of the Crystal Empire sire," the pony reiterated.

The enormity of the situation finally dawned on me. I was now the leader of a city made of crystal, that was sitting atop a leyline convergence, in a world that already had a ridiculous amount of magic. A grin slowly spread across my face and would've turned into a full blown smile if the heating spell in the room hadn't broken down at that moment and sent in the cold air once again. Crap, I was controlling a city in the arctic that had only three subjects, or did it?

"Excuse me," I questioned, getting the pony mare to look at me attentively, "is there anybody else here?"

"Oh, of course, they are all probably down in the mines under the palace," responded the cyan pegasus this time.

Well that is certainly a relief, having a city with only three subjects wasn't very impressive but if there was enough to fill every house outside then there might be a chance for this little city. I gestured for them to lead the way and they complied, going through many hallways and down oh so many stairs, seriously, the person who made this place must have had a stair fetish, that was the only possible explanation.

Along the way I decided to ask them a few questions to get some information about the place I was in, starting with their names.

"I never did quite catch your names," I said to the ponies.

"I'm Amethyst Shine sir," said the earth pony mare.

"I'm Sapphire Star," answered the cyan pegasus.

"And I'm Topaz Thrill," finished the yellow stallion, "how about you sire?"

"I am Corvyre Fenrin," I answered, wondering at their names.

As we made our way downwards into the earth they continued to answer my questions about this place, filling in quite a bit in my mind. Finally, we stopped outside a large set of black doors. Trying to appear as royal as possible, I order the two pegasi to go in first and prepare the other ponies. After a few minutes of waiting, a knocking sound could be heard coming from the other side of the door, this was Amethyst's cue.

From the other side of the door I could hear Amethyst declaring my arrival, "Announcing the arrival of His Imperial Highness, Emperor Corvyre Fenrin." This was it, I pushed open the doors, one with each hand, and entered the unbelievably silent room. Stood in front of me in the large rock-hewn chamber were thousands upon thousands of ponies, my new subjects. Sadly, I could feel an aura of fear emanating from the population, something that wasn't all that unsurprising.

Deciding to get off to a good start I gave them the news. "It is true," I said as regally as possible, my voice amplified by a spell  had placed upon myself, "Sombra is dead, slain by my hand." I was about to continue when I felt the fear fade away from the area to be replaced by pure joy as the ponies cheered at the news I was giving them. I continued, "Due to this, I have taken over as Emperor of the Crystal Empire in order to restore this great city to its former glory and in order to undo the mess that the tyrant Sombra has made of this place.  In approximately 4 hours there shall be a feast for the entirety of the city. You are all free to go back to your homes, although I would request that any of the royal guard would stay behind. Oh, and one last thing, this is no longer the Crystal Empire," I paused for effect, "this city shall be forevermore known as the crystal city."

With my short little speech now finished the majority of the ponies began to leave, leaving me with around 150 ponies that I assumed were the royal guard.

"Would the commanding officer please step forward now," I asked. Soon after a large unicorn with a silver coat and a white mane made his way to the front of the group. "The rest of you go back to your barracks and get some rest. Those of you that are on duty at this time, get suited up and secure the city." The guards obeyed, I assume, and began to leave the chamber.

"Follow me," I said to the guard captain, "we have a lot to talk about."