Hope awoke to find herself in a small dark chamber filled with darkness. She sighed as she felt the darkness around her close in. She didn’t need to be told where she was, she just knew. She concentrated on her horn’s magic and was grateful to find she still had her horn and her powers. A small light shone from her horn, pushing away the darkness. “I suppose you’ve found out what I’ve done?” She asked calmly into the darkness.

“Yes… I have… I must say… I am impressed. Not only have you saved your sister and brought her home, young filly, but you managed to stay alive long enough to do it. Two curses have been placed upon you and you still managed to do all this. You are a powerful young filly…” A dark female voice whispered, seemingly in her ear, not that it fooled Hope. She just kept looking forward. “I do believe it is time for you to fail again though, my dear…”

“You touch my sisters and I will not hesitate this time. I will keep my sisters safe from you.” Hope kept a calm voice and a neutral face as she stared forward in the darkness. She had already nearly lost her sisters before, she would not make the same mistake twice.

“I think I’ll take a different approach actually. Your sister’s apprentice is quite skilled, and so is her assistant… you keep forgetting that the more you love and care for, the easier it is to break you.” Hope glanced towards her back as she felt something seem to burst from her back. “Ah, you do have an ally that you seemed to have either forgotten, or simply not recognized. I do believe that he shall be the first to go, after all… I was going to save him for last as a gift for you doing such a good job at surviving both curses…”

“What are you talking about?” Hope felt something startling that was impossible, she looked back and noticed bright golden wings with a light pink in its center. “What in Equestria?”

“Yes, your ally shall be gone by the time I allow you to wake up, dragons are such pests anyway…” As the voice turned into silence, Hope’s eyes flared open.

“You keep your hooves off of my son, you witch!” She spread her wings out fully reaching a startling ten feet and blasting a golden light throughout the room.

When she awoke she found herself on the ground by a tree, beaten, bruised, and with the wings from her vision and her bandages removed. She slowly got herself up and looked around. There was damage to the city but it seemed that the ones who had caused it were long gone. She ran around as fast as she could, searching for her son and her sisters. Spike would never stray far from her if he was helping with her bandages, unless he was with the princess Twilight Sparkle. She hoped desperately with all her heart and soul that that was indeed the case.

Author's Note

Yeah, wait till ya meet the rest of my little cast and figure out who that voice is hehe