Chapters My Friends Will be With me.
Another day and another set of royal duties done with.
She walked over to a large old looking wooden bookshelf hidden behind a couple of never crystal bookshelfs she had gotten from the Crystal Empire. It wasn’t visible when you first entered the room. Using her magic she moved the bookshelf to the side, revealing a narrow hidden path that lead downstairs. Walking slowly down the steps Twilight moved the bookshelf back over the passage, sealing it so nopony could see what was behind it.
Twilight´s horn began to glow sparking a light so she could see where she put her hoofs preventing her from falling.
“Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy. I´m coming to see you, I still hope you are down here”
“I know you are probably all mad at me, but you could at least answer when I’m calling. You know I had to do what I did”
Twilight got to the end of the steps, entering a big dark room. Using her magic she ignited a couple of torches on the walls. The room lit up, revealing what was in there.
Twilight walked over to the cylinder that had a number one on it, she opened it and out fell the lifeless body of Applejack. The body didn’t have any eyes only two black empty sockets. They had been removed together with the other organs, so the body wouldn’t rot and begin to smell.
“There you were AJ. I thought you left me and the others. Oh well you know what time it is right?”
“Come on now Applejack, we have to make apple cider for the party. We don’t want to disappoint our friends now do we?”
“Good job AJ even if you made quite a mess.”
“See AJ that´s what happens when you work too hard, now I have to fix you again, just like last week. But that will have to wait, you done your part so you can just sit at the table and wait for the others to arrive.”
Applejack´s head naught, her body walked over to the chair in front of the plate with her cutiemark. Sitting down the head fell backwards, revealing some strings that went all around the neck and all the way down the body stopping at the back hooves.
"So what have gotten you so exited sugar cube?”
“Oh I found a secret room behind a bookshelf in the library, and I wanted to show it to you Applejack”
“What about the others Twi, Are they coming too?”
“I’m going to show them another time, I thought it would be great to do this together”
She snapped back, seeing Applejack sitting on the chair she shook her head.
My Friends Will be With me.
Twilight opened the cylinder with a number 2 on it, this time the limb body of Rarity fell out, this time however she were ready and cached the body, it looked like Rarity had fainted into her hooves.
Rarity´s body wasn’t damaged as much as Applejacks were, really there were only a few scratches on her. However her head were another case. On her forehead there was a clear cut that had been badly sown together, it looked like it could spring open at any second, and Rarity´s horn had taken some damage too, it had been broken off and Twilight had tied it together with some string. Rarity´s mane and tail was in nearly perfect condition, still had the same twirl with her tail and the little part of her mane in the front rolled up as when she was alive. Her eyes just like Applejacks were removed, but instead of leaving empty holes, Twilight had replaced them with small beautiful round blue sapphires matching her original eyes.
A nervous giggle was heard from Twilight as she lifted rarity to a standing position, Twilight had filled Rarity´s body with wool so she could stand herself, but to move Rarity, Twilight still had to use her magic. The sapphires shone in the otherwise empty eye sockets, giving the feeling that Rarity was still alive.
Twilight´s mind trailed of for a second with that last statement. Shaking her head and the thoughts away she looked at Rarity, grabbing the body with her magic and leading it over to the wardrobe.
A glow of magical energy grabbed a turquoise dress that shined like a diamond. From the neck all the way down there was a line on each side, made of dust from red crushed crystals, and on the middle of the dress a grain yellow heart was visible.
Placing Rarity in front of the mirror Twilight´s eyes began to blur, her thoughts taking her back again, this time to when Rarity and the dragon Spike were down in the room with her. It had been a few days after she had shown Applejack the room. She told Rarity and Spike that there was a clue to where Applejack was, they had trusted Twilight and followed her. Twilight had walked behind the others, ready to strike when the time came.
“I must say darling I’m worried for Applejacks wellbeing. I really hope whatever it is you found down here will help us in the search”
“Don´t you worry Rarity if Twilights is saying she found something, I’m sure it´s true. She would never lie.”
“I’m just hoping we can get out of here in a hurry. This place creeps me out, and who knows what kind of icky things that’s down here”
Twilight remembered how they had entered the room. She had lit the torches and the first thing Rarity’s eyes saw had made her scream, the corpse of Applejack was in the first container, looking at Rarity with its empty eyes. Spike had turned his head towards Twilight, looking at her with a scared look. Trying to say something, but he had been too shocked by the discovery to get the words out. This had been the time for Twilight to strike. She had used her magic to hit Spike and Rarity on the head with a metal rod, breaking Rarity’s horn in half. They had both fallen to the ground unconscious.
Twilight opened her eyes again, Rarity still standing in front of the mirror that the little dragon Spike were holding. He had been nailed to the ground to make sure he didn’t fall and broke the mirror. Twilight had carved his mouth with a knife so it looked like he smiled, she had to do it due to that Spike had frowned when she had killed him because of fear and unhappiness.
My Friends Will be With me.
She slowly began to walk to the third cylinder. She had gotten a strange heavy feeling in her hooves and chest, almost like something tried to prevent her from opening it. This wouldn’t stop her though and she pushed on, the feeling wouldn’t go away however and her thoughts once again began to go wild. Her vision fainted a bit while in her head she could hear somepony beg for mercy. She heard screams and it sounded like they were close to where she stood. She heard a faint sound of a cry, but it sounded like it was further away than the screams and begging.
Twilight levitated the pink body to a sanding position.
“So Pinkie what do you think we should use, and what kind of cake would you like. What is that Pinkie? Do you want streamers and a chocolate cake? Well that sounds like a great idea, this is why you are the best party pony in the town”
“What´s wrong Pinkie, is something missing?”
Pinkie walked towards the table and the others, she sat down opposite of Rarity. Her head felt down onto the plate, causing a couple of the cups to fall over.
“What have I done to them, they were my friends, they trusted me”“We had to and you know it, or else we would be left alone” “Shut it, this will be our first party with them like this. But not the last”
She arrived at the table, looking at the mess Pinkie had caused. She shook her head and walked over to Applejack, Twilight sad down next to AJ beginning to sew her leg back on.
“Twilight, is that you” “Hi pinkie, you were out for a long time I must say. But now you are awake and we can begin” “Begin, Begin what. And why does my head hurt and was that Rarity and Applejack I saw before?” “Yes Pinkie, they are here with me, and soon you will join them too. I know it must be difficult to understand why, but I’m doing this so we can be together forever” “Twilight I’m a bit scared now, this is not really how you should prank anypony. Heh” “Oh Pinkie this is not a prank, I’m doing this for our friendship”
Twilight hung her head, taking deep breaths she raised her head again and looked at Pinkie.
My Friends Will be With me.
Twilight moved towards the fourth cylinder with Fluttershy in it, she stopped and realized she had forgotten something. She turned her head towards the shelf with the animals and party stuff on it, some of the animals began to levitate towards Twilight, a beaver, a couple of butterflies and a very recognizable white bunny. They got placed in front of the fourth cylinder, almost like they waited for Fluttershy to come out. Before opening it though she looked at the fifth cylinder which was empty
Taking a deep breath she opened up for the yellow pegasi to get out. Like with the others Twilight was met with empty eye sockets, Fluttershy could stand like Rarity without falling out or onto the ground, her wings was sewn to her sides so they would hang lifelessly from her body, a couple of feathers were missing on the wings, it had been hard for Twilight to keep them in perfect condition, her mouth had been sewn so it was slightly open, looking like Fluttershy always was about to say something and her pink mane was gently falling down her right side like she was still alive.
Twilight walked over and gave Fluttershy a hug, sheeting a small tear for her friends.
Twilight stared at the yellow pegasi in front of her, waiting for an answer she somewhere in her mind knew wouldn’t come.
Fluttershy’s head naught’d, the body walked towards the table and sat itself down in front of Applejack and next to Pinkie Pie. Twilight sad down between Fluttershy and Pinkie pie, she looked around at the others with a smile of pure insanity.
She looked around, her eyes stopped blinking for a couple of seconds while she waited for some sort of answer, she knew there wouldn’t be any answers but to protect her from reality her mind made up the answers she were waiting.
Twilight moved from her seat and the table, she walked over to the closet with the dresses and levitated something down from the top of it.
Stepping outside the castle Twilight looked up into the skies, the sun was on its way down, saying goodbye once again to all the ponies in Equestria, and by its side the moon began to rise, showing it was about time to get some rest. This was not the case for Twilight however. She had to find Rainbow and the faster the better, she ran towards the town square yelling like somepony who had just found a dead body. A couple of ponies opened their windows to see what was going on, when they saw it was Twilight they realized she maybe had found the others of her friends. It had been the big topic to talk about, how Twilight friends had disappeared seemingly out of thin air without a word to their families or anypony for that matter. Now that she looked for Rainbow they all hoped she had found some form of clue to where the others had gone.
“HEY TWILIGHT SLOW DOWN”
“I… I just… I mean I found…”
“Lead the way if we can get our friends back soon I’ll do anything”
My Friends Will be With me.
The sound of hoofsteps echoed through the stairway leading down to the room were the other of Twilight and Rainbow´s friends were sitting, Twilight walked behind Rainbow with her horn glowing so the steps were visible to them.
“Well when I was looking for some clues to were our friends could have gone, I stumbled upon this hallway and a room at the end of it. I found a map that seems to show the location for all of us. I think it have something to do with the magic from when we had the Elements of Harmony.”
Rainbow stopped and turned her head towards Twilight, looking at her with a wondering expression.
Twilight almost bumped into Rainbow due to this sudden stop, when she heard the question her mind began to go into a panic. How should she react to this, should she attack or try to play it cool and make a quick excuse and hope it worked out? Taking a deep breath to calm her nerves, she looked at Rainbow with a calm expression.
Rainbow looked at her friend for a second. She made a small naught with her head and started to walk down the stairs again, Twilight´s mind began to relax and return to her original thought about the next step in her plan. She knew that when the lights in the room got lit she had to act quickly or else Rainbow would be able to knock Twilight to the ground and escape.
They both stepped into the dark room, now Twilight would be able to grab the metal pipe and knock Rainbow out when the time came. Her horn glowed again and in just a second the room got lit up from the torches on the walls. Rainbow got blinded for a second by the sudden light. She blinked a couple of times and what she saw made her wonder what Twilight used this place for. The first thing she saw was the five cylinders, four open and the fifth still closed. She looked to her left, seeing the apple bucket with smashed apples in it, and next to it the wooden shelf with a couple of stuffed animals, cakes, party hats and streamers. She looked to her right side, and the first thing she saw send chills down her back. Standing lifelessly next to a wardrobe was the little dragon Spike holding a big mirror. Rainbow slowly turned her head further to the right and the sight meeting her eyes made her gasp and freeze in her place. All of her friends, sitting next to a decorated table looking like they were having a party. But it was easy for the pegasus to see what Twilight had done, the stitches holding the others together were clearly visible, and the empty eye sockets starred at her. With tears coming from her eyes she turned to face the Princess behind her, however she didn’t get a word out before she was struck and knocked to the ground, the last thing she saw before her vision got black was a smiling Twilight.
Rainbow Dash awoke with a shock and was in a panic, the minds of what she had seen before getting knocked out were still in her head. She looked around, noticing she was held above the ground by chains wrapped tightly around her hooves. She tried to move wings, but she could feel something held them in place. She tried a bit harder but only the sound of chains was heard, and she didn’t move an inch. Looking forward she saw the cylinders once again, noticing that the one that was closed before now had been opened, and in front of it stood a smiling Twilight. Tears were forming in her eyes once again, both from fear and sadness.
Twilight moved closer to the pegasi, in her magic she had a bloodstained knife. She kept her smile and when she was right in front of Rainbow she looked into her eyes.
Rainbow closed her eyes waiting for what to come. The knife moved quickly into rainbows stomach, a loud scream erupted from the weather pony as she felt the knife going upwards. The screams started Twilight´s mind again, this time she was taken back to when she had Fluttershy with her, she remembered how the yellow pegasus had cried and begged, how she had asked over and over again why Twilight did this. She saw the faces of the small animals that were trapped in a cage so they wouldn’t interfere. One thing her mind blocked however, was how she had done the procedure to her friends, every time she started her mind would wander off and think about her friends and what they had done when they were about to get the procedure. And every time when her mind would return, the job was done. It was the same pattern with Rainbow, when she finally returned the cyan pegasus was sewn together. Eyes had been taken out, the mouth sewn so it looked like she were smiling and the body had been stuffed with wool so she could stand for herself, and not fall over like Applejack.
Twilight jumped around the body, releasing it from the chains and carefully putting it down onto the ground.
Like the others the body began to move with the help from Twilights magic, it walked over to the chair between Rarity and Applejack. The Princess looked at her friends, smiling as she began to walk over to the chair between Pinkie and Fluttershy.
Taking a deep breath Twilight opened her mouth to say something, but all of a sudden her mouth felt dry. She looked around at her friends, only now she realized what she had done to her friends. It was like the lifeless bodies stared at her, judging her for what she had done to them. Twilights mind began to fill with the thoughts of her friends last moments, all of the screams all the questions. All the things her mind had blocked out before started to come forward, what she had done, how she had done it. She could see how the life had left the bodies of her friends when they had given up.
“Sorry”
