The Light That Doesn't Shine
Celestia woke to up with mascara running down her face and her hair frazzled. She had slept for a while but felt groggy as if she'd been drugged. She didn't even remember anything an hour before she went to sleep except Luna leaving for a special royal meeting. Celestia was supposed to be invited, but her sister got invited instead. The thing that really nagged at her was the fact that she was alone again. Although she had been alone for a thousand years, it was to much to bear to be left alone. She always felt needy when she was alone, especially during the Luna's banishment because Celestia didn't know when she was coming back. This was the same situation.
"Why am I this lonely?" Celestia said this with a pang of guiltiness build up inside her. She knew it was her fault that Luna had turned into Nightmare Moon. She knew it was her fault that she felt this lonely.
I don't have to be this lonely, she thought. Why don't I invite over Twilight and her friends, maybe we can have some fun.
Celestia grabbed some parchment off the shelf and proceeded to write her letter.
She started to set up for the party. She picked a room where no voice could be heard so it wouldn't annoy the guards. She grabbed a bunch of tables, pastries, and a couple garbage bags. After she finished, she stood back to admire her magnificent work.
Twilight heard a burp from Spike.
"A letter!" exclaimed Twilight.
She opened the letter and read it silently. Then she showed it to Spike.
"I'll go get Rarity and Pinkie Pie, you can go get the rest." Spike said with satisfaction.
"Alright."
While she was waiting, Celestia decided to explore the rooms next to the one she was in. She went into the room to her left. It was the same room. No light, no furniture, just darkness. The thirteenth room she explored was a little...different. When she opened the door she couldn't see anything. She could only see the floor two feet in front of her. They're not going to be here any time soon, maybe I should explore this room. Celestia created a glow from her horn which cast an eerie, yellow glow everywhere. She saw a dark tunnel and walked into it. As she walked, the tunnel became smaller and narrower. She finally came to a flight of stairs. She climbed the flight of stairs. At the end was a small stone pillar. Celestia saw a thick layer of dust covering the top. She blew it off revealing an encryption. Celestia read the encryption. She felt a sharp pain on her hind legs. She looked behind her and saw a thick, slimy, plant wrapping around her body. She tried screaming for help but the vine was covering her mouth. She blacked out.
When she woke up, she was in the party room without any scratch. She felt a hunger, a hunger for something she couldn't exactly figure out. When she was on her feet Twilight and her friends burst through the door.
"Hey!"
"Hello."
"Howdy!"
"Ummm..Hi."
"Hi!"
"Hello Princess."
When they all entered Celestia closed the door. They all sat down and drank their tea and ate pastries.
"This is very nice darling, but I think we should have windows, it gives the room more lighting." said Rarity observing the room.
"Oh Rarity. Ya know the princess worked hard to make this." Applejack said in a defensive tone.
"It's quite alright, I should've picked a better room." Celestia said.
They talked and laughed drinking tea and playing games. It was turning dark outside and they all had to leave. They can't leave, thought Celestia,I don't know why but they just can't. A fire raged through her saying they couldn't leave. Then there was a pain loading through her entire body. A great evil rushed through her veins. She was on the verge of crying until it was over. Celestia blinked and all she saw was everything in red. She was crying. Twilight noticed Celestia crying. They were almost to the door.
"We can't leave her, she's too lonely."said Twilight.
"But we have no place to stay the night!" said Rainbow.
"You can stay in the west wing, we have a bunch of guest bedrooms there." Celestia said.
"Let's stay then. I've always wanted to sleep in a castle." Rarity said with her eyes sparkling.
"I'll prepare more tea. Be right back." Celestia said.
She entered the kitchen and fell to the floor moaning. She then blacked out. When she awoke she was not the Celestia she knew. She laughed manically and started preparing the tea. She put them in tea cups and put a sleeping pill in each one except for hers of course. When the sleeping pills were dissolved she set them on a tray and entered the room. She closed the door behind her and locked it. She gave each pony their tea and watched as they drank down every last drop. The six ponies yawned.
"Are you guys feeling kinda sleepy?" asked Applejack yawning.
"Mhmm." said the rest.
Celestia watched with satisfaction as they all fell asleep. She got out a few more tables and laid a mare on each one. She strapped them down and cut a large slit from their throats to their stomachs. She look at the the blood oozing out of the cuts.
Twilight awoke feeling light headed. She felt a hard and sharp pain along her body. She saw her teacher and mentor staring at her with a demonic smile that spread from ear to ear and here eyes were large and happy. Her fur was covered in blood. Some fresh, some dried. She saw all of her friends lifeless in the background. Their eyes were not there but there were buttons in their place ever joint was stitched. She screamed as loud as she could and heard Celestia laughing.
"You little fool!" she cackled,"you should've known to leave me! And screaming won't help you. I chose these rooms because no one can here you scream!"
Twilight held back the tears. Not only had her teacher and mentor betrayed her, but she was murdering her! She had also murdered her precious friends. She felt pain in her heart. She realized never told Spike the truth. And where would he go now? She couldn't hold it in and she just poured it out.
"Don't worry," said Celestia,"it will all be over soon."
Twilight felt her light headed-ness come back stronger. She looked down and saw almost all of her blood spilled out all over the table and on the floor.She heard Celestia say,
"Wanna play?"
Then everything went black.
Luna arrived a few days later. She couldn't wait to see her sister. She looked all around the castle calling her name and found her in a room with a bunch of tea party stuff.
"You're back!" cried Celestia as she hugged Luna.
"I missed you so much!" said Luna.
"I'll go make us some tea, I'll be right back." said Celestia walking out of the room.
"Ok." shouted Luna as she sat down.
Luna sniffed the air. It smelled of pastries, tea, and something else but she couldn't tell what it was. Celestia arrived a few minutes later. Luna drank her tea as she noticed her sister watching her. Luna yawned and sleep overcame her. She lay down on the ground as Celestia stood before her. Luna looked up and saw a demonic smile spread from ear to ear on Celestia's face.
"Tia? What's going on?" said Luna trembling.
"Wanna play?" Celestia said still having that terrifying expression.
Before Luna could reply, her vision blurred and everything went black.
