When The World Is Gone

-- Flashback: Twilight Sparkle --

I remember looking at my parents. This memory felt like it was a long time ago. It almost felt like years ago when I was a little filly.

It feels like this is a memory I should remember more than others. This was the start of the End of my World.

I was at a concert waiting for a band called the Eternal Starlight's to appear onstage. They were composed of three ponies who looked beautiful and had fluorescent, almost see-through-like wings and wore choker necklaces that had a red jewel.

I will always remember them as the destroyers of my family in this memory.

Adagio Dazzle is the leader of the group. Always standing in the middle of the two ponies. She rubs her hooves together with excitement, her smile as wicked as a witch. Her orange hair bouncing all over the place. Its so poofy with her orange and yellow highlights, that you can't help but notice how weird she was acting at the last concert.

She had a sly grin on her face, and kept rubbing her hooves together like she was planning something.

Their necklaces with a blood red jewel glowed unnaturally.

Aria Blaze usually keeps quiet, but will take any chance she can get to put an insult in or two. She was a backup singer doing the harmonizing while Adagio sang.

Sonata Dusk, to put it lightly, was an adorable idiot. She always seemed happy or blurted out random things that didn't seem relevant until the night of their last concert. Sonata didn't seem like a threat at all. I thought she was actually dumb and she pulled it off well until after the concert.

Her dumbness was just a facade to make them seem nice and peaceful. In reality Sonata is very smart.

Now if I can remember this clearly the concert was outside Ponyville City Hall. I still remember the building looked smaller on the outside, but bigger on the inside.

Behind the stage you could barely hear the conversation behind the curtains. Their conversation was distorted and I could only hear bits and pieces: " Sonata... its going to happen tonight!  We must get ready... Aria... prepare... We can do this.." was all I heard.

Ponies were having their own little conversations all around the room, so it was hard to hear the entire conversation.

I could feel the excitement in the air. We were all getting pumped up for the concert. My Mom, Dad, and Brother were there. We came down to Ponyville to celebrate an amazing achievement I accomplished a few days earlier.

My brother congratulated me with a hug, " I'm so proud of you Twilight!  My special little sister, you get to live inside Princess Celestia's  castle as on of her special prodigies!"

" I'm amazed that it happened!" I said in my small voice.

"Since you have been asked personally to stay at the castle with Princess Celestia, I'm not going to get to see you that much. So promise me you'll see me this weekend?" he asked kindly.

"Of course! Your my Big Brother Best Friend Forever!" I hugged him for a long while.

He rubbed my head softly and I laughed. He seemed so loving and caring towards me.

It feels like we talked about something before this, I can't clearly remember what it is, but what I do remember are bits and pieces to a puzzle that can't be completed. At least not yet.

I could hear everyone's excitement. Millions of ponies were sitting everywhere around us. There were small seats sitting in rows of rows that were already completely filled, with thousands of more ponies to come. There was shouts of happiness and shouts for the "Eternal Starlight's to get their flanks on stage and sing already!" was exactly what they said. A lot of them were very impatient.

Some of them probably were waiting months and months to be able to get a concert in the small town of Ponyville

That's was the last time the Eternal Starling's had one of their concerts.

They hit big spots like Las Pegusus, Fillydelphia, Appleoosa, Canterlot, almost every big city you could think of and now they came to Ponyville: their last stop on the big benefit tour.

The concert stage was huge for Ponyville standards. It was as long as two small houses put together, but for Canterlot standards it was pretty small.

The stage was the color of darkness,  with small speakers hanging from the edges of the stage, and bigger speakers sitting at the edge of the left and right side.

Suddenly the concert lights dimmed, then started following The Three Ponies on stage. They walked slowly up to the front of the stage. They had no microphones seen anywhere on the stage.

Music started playing from the speakers. A few seconds later they started harmonizing. And then Adagio started singing,

"Welcome to the show."

Were here to let you know,

Our time is now,

Your time is running out."

The music seemed dark, I was scared, but no one looked at me to see if I was alright. They paid more attention to a band than to me. Something didn't seem right.

" Feel the wave of sound," Their hooves lifted into the air and red sound waves came from their necklaces. They directed the sound waves towards the crowd. " As it crashes down." The sound waves went through my body, but I didn't feel any different.

My family, however, didn't turn out the same. They became mesmerized by the music and didn't turn their head at me.

" You can't turn away, we'll make you want to stay!" I waved my hoof in front of them and they stood still, paying attention to the Eternal Starlight's.

" We will be adored, tell us that you want us!" " We want you Eternal Starlight's!" The crowd droned like minions.

"Tell us that you want us!

We won't be ignored!

Its time for our reward!

Now you need us, come and heed us!

Nothing can stop us now!"

They loved the Eternal Starlight's. They couldn't live without them. They would fight to get them. They were all running up to the front of the stage to worship them and love them.

"What we have in store,"

I ran.

"All we need and more,"

I ran as fast as could away from the concert. I ran for my life away from the ponies who decided to takeover Equestria.

The music started to fade into the background. "We will break on through."

I could hear my heartbeat beating as fast as it could and the sound of my feet clopping away out of the streets of Ponyville.

"Now its time to finish you!"

I don't remember stopping, until I hear an explosion. And what I saw I couldn't believe would ever happen.

My heart sunk into darkness and depression. I. Lost. All. Hope.

And I knew my world could never be changed back again.

That's the last time I ever saw my parents and my brother looking normal. When they had their own sense of thought and had emotion.

They didn't run after me, they wanted to worship the ponies that took their own free will away from them. I was all alone.

-- Flashback: Twilight Sparkle --