A slave to her Urges

(part 3)

Sweetie Belle's hooves dragged along the ground as she left the school building and towards her inevitable destination. She would have rathered be heading anywhere else right now but she knew if she wanted her secret kept safe, she had no choice in the matter.

"This bucking sucks." The unicorn remarked aloud depressingly as she walked along the sidewalk, unaware of two certain fillies who had caught up with her.

"Sweetie Belle! Wait up!" Applebloom's voice called out much to the unicorn's nervousness.

"Hey, fillies." She said in the most casual manner possible as Scootaloo and AppleBloom caught up with her and began to walk alongside her.

"So, you gonna tell us what Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon have you or not?" Applebloom asked in a slightly annoyed tone.

Once again, the unicorn bit her lower lip and attempted to remain calm. "I already told you-"

"Cut the horseapples, Belle!" Applebloom snapped angrily cutting the unicorn off, stepping in front of her, and blocking her way. "Why the buck else would you suddenly avoid your two closest and best friends?!"

"Its either that or you think that you're too good for us anymore." Scootaloo chimed in with an equally annoyed stare at the unicorn.

Sweetie Belle looked to Applebloom, then to Scootaloo, and then back to Applebloom. They weren't going to let her get out of this. She had no way out. Unless…

Sweetie Belle lowered her head down, sighed, steeled herself, put on the most egotistic expression she could think of, and spoke. "Took you long enough to figure it out." Sweetie Belle said as she feigned a sneer.

"Say what?" Scootaloo said flatly with a stonewalled expression as the unicorn used her magic to shove Applebloom out of the way.

Applebloom could not believe what she was seeing as she stared with an outraged yet disbelieving expression. "Sweetie Belle!" She shouted suddenly which caused the unicorn to halt in her hoofsteps but not turn around to face them. "Ya don't have to shut us out! We can help you!"
Unknown to the two, Sweetie Belle's face was on the verge of tears as she sucked back the silent sobs and reasserted the snobbish attitude.

"I shut you two out the day you both ruined my life five years ago!" She exclaimed with much more venom than she had meant to put into her voice.

Applebloom's expression shattered from its outraged yet disbelieving expression to one of guilt and sadness while Scootaloo's jaw dropped. "We were just tryin' to help…" was all the farm pony could utter out though her voice sounded as if she was on the verge of tears.

"Trying to help?" Sweetie Belle asked aloud as she felt her anger rise from hearing these words yet she didn't know why but it didn't stop her temper from flaring as she whirled around, trotted up to Applebloom, and tapped her hard on the chest. "Trying to help?!" She nearly shrieked this time in fury. "Grand Job you did of that five years ago!"

"Back off Belle…" Applebloom warned, her expression quickly changing from guilty and sad to angered once more.

"Or you'll do what?! Ruin my life?! You both already did that once! Would be a little hard to do again, don't you think?!" Sweetie Belle shouted angrily as she tapped her hard in the chest again which caused the farm pony to stumble off-balance.

"Ah'm warnin' ya Belle! Touch me again and you'll regret it!" Applebloom shouted after she regained her balance and flashed the unicorn a threatening glare to accompany her words.

"H-Hey! We're all friends here, right? Let's not fight!" Scootaloo attempted to interject with a worried expression once she realized this was getting out of control fast.

"Stay out of this, you flightless wonder!" Sweetie Belle snapped at the Pegasus before she returned her glare to the farm pony.

"That was way out of line, Sweetie Belle!" Applebloom shouted as she abruptly and without warning slammed her hoof across Sweetie Belle's face, knocking her to the ground.

"What the buck, A-B?! You just sucker-punched your best friend!" Scootaloo exclaimed in shock and horror.

"So you like bein' called a flightless wonder?!" Applebloom snapped at the Pegasus who was taken back by this.

"N-No but violence is never the answer!" Scootaloo stammered.

"Says the Pegasus who slugged Diamond Tiara in the snout for calling her one less than two months ago." Sweetie Belle remarked aloud as she stood to her hooves, horn glowing, as she glared at the two and fired a beam of magic at the ground in front of the two which startled the two fillies.

Scootaloo and Applebloom each exchanged an apprehensive look before looking back at the pissed off unicorn. "Okay, maybe the punch to the face was a little overboard." Applebloom remarked uneasily.

"Oh sure! Start apologizing and groveling when the unicorn starts using magic! Is that all you are?! Afraid to take on a unicorn when their ready to actually fight you on equal hoofing!" Sweetie Belle exclaimed as she shot another beam at Applebloom's hooves which caused the filly let out a scared squeak as she hopped back to avoid it.

"Knock it off, Sweetie Belle! This isn't funny!" Scootaloo exclaimed in a fierce yet scared tone as she looked at her friend.

"Who said I was joking?! You two ruined my life! I had a bright future ahead of me and because of your sick and perverted curiosity, it was gone in the blink of an eye!" Sweetie Belle roared as she shot another beam of magic at Applebloom, just barely missing the farm filly.

"I could have been a student at Celestia's school of gifted unicorns! Do you realize what kind of future I could have had?!" Sweetie Belle roared at the top of her lungs, seeing red, as she channeled magic into her horn. "And you took it away from me!" she shrieked at the top of her lungs and fired it directly at the farm pony.

Scootaloo gasped in horror while the only thing Applebloom could do was flinch in fear of the impending pain that was about to be inflicted upon her.

ENOUGH!!!

A familiar voice exclaimed in what could be none-other than the royal canterlot voice.

Applebloom opened her eyes, gasped, and stumbled backward from the green beam of magical energy being held less than an inch from her face by a lavender purple aura.

"What In Celestia's name is going on here?!" Twilight exclaimed in a demanding tone as she snapped her gaze to Sweetie Belle whose face was one of shock.

"What was I doing?" Sweetie Belle asked aloud in a horror-struck tone.

"That's what I want to know." Twilight asked in a stern tone as she looked at her student but with far more concern as she realized the filly seemed just as scared as Applebloom was at the present time.

Sweetie Belle however, turned about face and ran from the three, disappearing in a flash of magic less than three seconds later mid-sprint.

With no other choice the Alicorn turned to the other two crusaders, one of which seemed to be huddled in a quivering ball of silent sobs. "Can you two tell me what happened?" Twilight asked calmly as she used her magic to dispitate the green magic Sweetie Belle left behind.

Scootaloo looked to Applebloom who seemed to be unable to speak at the moment and then to the princess, took a dry gulp, and began to speak. "I don't know what happened exactly. We started out trying to help her by asking what Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon had on her as blackmail material but then she suddenly lashed out at us about what had happened five years ago." She began, took another dry gulp, and sighed before she explained the rest of what had happened.

"I think she blacked out. Sweetie Belle would never try and hurt us like that." Scootaloo finished as Applebloom finally was able to stand up and whipped tears from her eyes.

"I knew she was having issues dealing with her condition but I had no idea she was keeping feelings like these buried like this." Twilight remarked aloud in a concerned tone.

"It's all mah fault…" Applebloom remarked aloud which caused both the Alicorn and Pegasus to look at her. "It was mah idea to get the spellbook, it was my idea for her to cast that spell, it's all mah fault…" Applebloom remarked aloud as tears flowed from her eyes freely now.

"H-Hey! It's my fault too ya know!" Scootaloo exclaimed in hopes of making her friend feel less bad about the past event.

"None of you are to blame for what happened five years ago." Twilight said aloud in a calm yet stern tone. "You were all far too young to understand the complexity of spellcraft, much less the long term effects of casting such a spell were." Twilight said and sighed heavily. "If anypony is to blame, it's me. I should have kept such books out of your reach. It was my negligence that led to Sweetie Belle being in the state she is today."

"Is that why you became her full time teacher?" Scootaloo asked curiously.

"Partly, yes." Twilight replied and sighed once more as she looked in the direction Sweetie Belle had fled prior to her teleporting.

"Are you gonna go after her?" Applebloom managed to choke out as she did her best to dry up her tears between sniffles.

"No. Confronting her right now would only cause her to push herself away from me. She'll come to me eventually though. I know her well enough to know this." Twilight said with a half smile before she turned to look at the two.

"I needn't say that this event shouldn't be discussed outside of closed doors and with me only." Twilight said in a semi-stern tone.

"Yeah, yeah. It's not like we don't know how to keep a secret anyways." Applebloom said in a mildly annoyed tone as she wiped her snout once more and sighed. "Just do me a favor and tell Sweetie Belle I'm sorry for sucker-punchin' her when you see her, okay?" she added with a half smile.

"I'll make sure she gets the message." Twilight replied with a full smile this time around as the two trotted away.

It wasn't until the two crusaders were well on there way that a thought occurred to the Alicorn. "Wait a second… Blackmail material?" Twilight mused aloud curiously.

Sweetie Belle walked along the sidewalk now in a daze, the events of less than ten minutes ago playing in her mind like a live action movie...

"I could have been a student at Celestia's school of gifted unicorns! Do you realize what kind of future I could have had?!"

"I thought I put what had happened in the past behind me and accepted my life as it was…" Sweetie Belle said aloud softly as she made a left turn, not really paying attention to where she was going.

"And you took it away from me!"

The unicorn shuddered violently at the memory shrieking those words and visibly flinched as the memory played out in her mind. "Does some part of me really blame them for what happened to me five years ago?" She asked a little louder this time as she stopped in place, lifted her right front hoof to her face and stared at it. "Just what was I going to do to Applebloom? I don't remember what spell I had cast, only that I wanted her to suffer…" She said and clenched her eyes shut as tears suddenly leaked through her closed eyes and down her cheeks.

"I wanted her to suffer as I have!"

The unicorn's eyes snapped wide in shock at the voice again, the welled up tears flinging from her face in the mists of her shock. "No! That's not what I want at all!" Sweetie Belle exclaimed softly as if in response to the voice that had said these words.

"It's all her fault...their fault!"

Sweetie Belle sat on her rump, flung her front hooves over both her ears and clenched her eyes shut once more as she shouted "Stop talking in my voice! You're not me!" at the top of her lungs only to burst into tears afterward. "I mean...it can't be me...can it?" The filly remarked aloud in a trembling tone.

The unicorn sat silently for a time with only the sound of the nearby birds chirping in their trees to break the silence. "I couldn't possibly blame my two best friends for what happened...could I?" Sweetie Belle remarked aloud softly.

Even though she wanted to ignore the voice's words, she somehow knew there was at least some truth to them. The unicorn looked up at the sky now as she wiped tears from her eyes, taking note of the fact that the sun was a fair distance from where it had been when she had left school and in the same moment, a panicking thought occurred to her:

"See you soon!"

Both bullies voices rang out in her head which caused her to abruptly stand up and run. "Last thing I need is those two exposing my secret because i didn't show up!" Sweetie Belle thought to herself dramatically as she rounded the corner to Diamond Tiara's house.

Author's Note

Writing a teen filly with issues like these is hard!