Shining's Rise To Power - The Fall Of The Empire

"Yes, dad. I'm sure. I want to know."

"I just don't want to upset you, my little princess."

"Dad! Just tell me already!"

"Alright."

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So after Chrysalis had finished explaining our 'BIG' mistake, of going to her cave and not attacking. She strolled over to me and placed a spell on my horn to stop me using any magic. After she walked over to where your mother was and mocked.

"You know for the Princess of love and an alicorn, she didn't put up much of a fight. Instead, she cried like a little baby, most of the time about never seeing her children again. Oh and praying that her 'Knight' in Shining Armour would come and save her. But did you?" She questioned with a raised eyebrow.

I didn't answer. Instead I closed my eyes. Hoping and praying that this was all just a crazy nightmare I was having and I would wake up with your mother laying gracefully asleep by my side. However when I opened my eyes, what I saw was rather different and startling. Staring right at me, millimetres away from my face, was Chrysalis. I swear I would have jumped 10 foot up in the air, If I hadn't been secured to the floor by Sombra's crystals. sh-....

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"Heh heh."

"Are you finding this funny? Skyla."

"Oh...er. What? NO dad!"

"Hmm, really?"

"Yes... er. I mean NO!"

"Ha heh, oh Skyla."

"What!"

"Nothing, shall I continue?"

"Yes... Please dad."

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Well Chrysalis... actually, she reacted how you did, she laughed for quite a while, come to think about it. While she was laughing and after I had recovered from the initial shock.

I looked over to your mother as I felt the tears flow down my face. My love, My beautiful Cady, laying dead on our castle floor, like she meant nothing to the world, she wasn't at peace. She was placed there to crush my heart. As I took in more and more of the damage this monster, had done to your mother in. I felt my hate and anger rise. Your mother was in a state, her hair and tail had been cut in various ways and both was matted and soaked with her blood, taking away any dignity she had left. However they was the minor things, the worst thing about your mother... *sniff* My Cady was that she was missing all of her feathers and most of her wing bones themselves. Not to mention your mum's horn, was half gone and was shaped in a haphazard way. I couldn't even begin to imagine, how somepony could do this to another pony let alone a part of the royal family. An alicorn.

I looked at the floor, where a puddle of my tears was and then to Chrysalis with anger and sorrow filled eyes as she caught her breath from laughing and I screamed.

"How could you, do something like this!" Thinking back I really shouldn't have said that.

"How? You wish to know, HOW? I killed your precious princess?"

"NO! I wanted to know, how you could have so much hate in your heart to do that to any pony. Its not natural"

She smiled and said "Well I'm happy to tell you my prince and do you really think changelings have the same mind span as you ponies do??"

She then went on to tell me how she killed your mother...

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"Are you sure you want to know."

"YES! dad I do, get on with it please."

"Okay."

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"So lets start, at the beginning shall we?" she said smirking, fully aware, I didn't want to know.

Again I didn't answer. I just wanted to block her out but whenever I tried to close my eyes or shut her off. She would blast my horn with an electrical shock, forcing me to look at her and listen. I put my ears down to show my disapproval but she smiled and giggled at me making me shiver.

"I took a knife from your castle's kitchen." She waved the knife at me as she continued. "Some rope from the guard barracks." again she waved it at me. "Then I teleported your wife from your bedroom to the Crystal caverns, north of the Empire." As she said this.

A loud bang was heard from out side and I heard screams of my crystal ponies, my subjects where in danger and I was stuck in a room, in my castle with a maniac. Who was reporting to me how she killed my wife. She walked over to the window checked outside, smiled and continued.

"I then woke her up and tied the rope to her hooves and stopped her using her magic with the same spell, You have on your horn now. Along with that I put a blood loss spell on her, so she wouldn't die unless I took the spell off. She screamed as I took my magic and slowly pulled off each and every feather. She cried out. Why are you doing this to me? in between sobs. After she was feather less. I took the knife and slowly cut out most of the membrane and the few supporting bones out of her wings. She cried out for you. SHINING HELP ME!!"

I couldn't take it, I screamed through tears. "STOP PLEASE! Just stop, I don't want to hear anymore." I felt so guilty.

I coughed trying to gain control of myself, as she smiled and came back down to my eye level, she lifted my head and nipped my ear before replying with a very terrifying...

"no." it was a stone cold whisper that sent shivers down my spine.

At that point it made me think of you 3 children. You all was with the maid. I thought, what if Sombra got to you, or if Chrysalis got to you. What would they do?

She then winked at me and continued on with your mother's demise.

"I then tied some more of the rope, on to what was left of her wing bones. This made her scream out again for you, she begged me to stop. But I didn't stop just like you didn't come to her rescue. Did you?" she said. Lifting my head with her hoof.

I looked away in shame and she struck me, this time with her hoof, not her magic. She then gave my left ear a nip drawing blood and carried on talking.

"I pulled both of her wings with my magic, stretching them in all directions, until the bases partially snapped. Your beautiful Cady begged and tried to negotiate for me to have the empire, anything, She was willing to give up anything to live. But when I asked about giving up YOU, do you know what she said?" Chrysalis questioned.

I, again didn't answer. I just glared at her with my ears down and tears staining my cheeks. She then mocked me before continuing.

"By the way, your so cute when you try and look angry.... Oh where was I, OH yes. What did Cadence say when I said she could go free, If she allowed me to brainwash you, again to being MY husband. she said."

"I DONT WANT TO KNOW!!!" I screamed in her face. she giggled.

"She said, No never. She was willing to give up her life, if it meant you would be safe. Yet you was in bed asleep peacefully while I killed her." she smiled and kept talking as I started to cry a fresh set of tears.

"The next part is the best my prince, I took the knife again and with it held in my magic. I took one of her front legs and slowly cut a hole out of her leg. I did this one by one as she cried in general and as the blood poured out, she question why she hadn't died. I told her that she couldn't die unless I took off the spell. She begged for you as I finished the last hole on her left back leg." as she said this she walked over to the motionless body of your mother and lifted the left leg up pointing to the huge hole in the leg. "This hole here."

I felt sick and again she giggled at me before walking back over and biting my right ear. Then she finished her description of your mother's demise.

"I then took the knife and Cadences horn in my magic and cut slow and steady as your wife cried and begged to die, she didn't want to live anymore the pain was to much. I continued to slice and twist her horn until it snapped off.

She then made the horn appear in front of me. I felt every emotion- angry, sad, guilt and hatred build but I did nothing.

"I then took the knife and penetrated your wife's stomach, flanks, legs and breasts, she scream for you again. I took the spell off a watched as she died. The last thing she heard was me whispering" as she said this another bang could be heard from outside.

"What did you whisper to her?"I dared to ask.

"Oh I said... your husband will be at last mine" She laughed darkly

While she was laughing I thought to myself. If I ever got my hooves on her I would do it all to her and worse. As I thought this the crystal that held me in place vanished, I was free... and Chrysalis would pay....

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"AUNTIE TWILIGHT!"

"Hey Twilly."

"Hello Skyla, BBBFF. What you up to?"

"Just telling Skyla about the empire falling and her mother, sis."

"Yeah, dad was just free from Sombra's crystals!"

"Wait Shining, you wasn't there when we defeated Sombra. You said you was with Chrysalis."

"Dad hasn't said how Sombra was defeated, he has just finished telling me, moms death."

"Well I'm sure, Auntie Twilly. Can tell you better than me as she was there."

"Yes I can tell you now, if you want I'm not busy until later. Oh brother that diplomat needs to talk to you."

"Right so if I sort that out, then come back will you be done telling Skyla about the defeat of Sombra?"

"Yep and then I have to go to Ponyville."

"Okay Twilly, that's settled then. See you later. Be good Skyla!"

"Yes dad! bye!"

"Bye BBBFF!"