Colette's Confession

"How are we going to save her? He's stronger than any of us even with magic." Olga said in a nervous voice and she looked from side to side with her eyes very fast.

"We don't know any of his weaknesses so that's a problem." Elena said in a sad voice and Duncan came to give her a hug.

"I also wonder why he has no cutie mark, it's pretty odd." Annabel said in a confused voice then she looked at Jordan with worry with her light blue eyes then she pushed her rounded blue glasses back in position.

"First we need to make a distraction to the guards and I think I know who can do that." Magnus said and he turned to Elizabeth who gave him a confused look.

"Why me?" Elizabeth asked with widened eyes.

"Because you have eyes that anypony would die for and would find you adorable then you just say that you just want food and they should go get some for you and we just sneak in." Sven replied and he scruffed her light yellow mane.

The filly thought for a moment before she took a deep breath.

"Alright, I'll try my best!" Elizabeth squealed with confidence.

"That's my little filly, with my confident personality." Sven said with pride in his voice and he hugged his daughter tightly and she giggled a little.

"Alright, let's get planning now!" Duncan ordered and everypony gathered around one of the tables and took out a huge sheet of paper.

The queen was sitting on her throne, thinking of something she could do. Her daughter was on a trip to Lyngway (a spoof of Norway with the Norwegian horse breed Lyngshest and also where Annamarie is from) with a few of her friends. Ever since that stranger came by, she had been afraid for her position, daughter and her country. There was no way she was going to surrender to that monster. He had already ponynapped one of her loyal subjects and she would have to do something about it but not on her own. What could she do? Her husband couldn't help because he had died a few months before their daughter was born. The queen was saddened by this and she felt alone. The guards weren't even strong enough against that monster and could easily get killed or badly injured.

"Your Majesty!" a filly's voice squealed and the queen looked up to see a filly with a blue body and an orange mane with a yellow stripe gallop in and she sounded like she was tired out.

"What is your name, young one and what are you doing here?" the queen asked, flying off her throne and landing in front of the filly.

"Name's Autumn, I'm Jocelyn's niece and I was told to tell you that we need you to help us destroy this monster. We're planning on going to him to save Colette." the filly said in panic and she sounded out of breath.

"No problem, I'll help you, let me just get prepared." the queen smiled and Autumn then nodded at her and galloped away.

Colette was still tied to the chair and she looked at her surroundings. It was still the same dark room and she trembled in fear. She felt the pain in her throat and the pain in her right eye. That jet black pony had choked her until she fell unconscious and then she woke up with a black eye. She had to get herself free somehow and escape then go back to everypony and be safe. She looked around and saw a small knife on a table. She used her magic to levitate the knife to the rope and carefully started cutting the bounds, almost cutting herself in the process and she finally got them off. Colette stretched her legs and shook herself, it had been so good to get out of those bounds. She opened the door and looked around before trotting quietly out of the room, down the stairs and she was about to galloping out of the door until when she opened it that it was slammed.

"Where do you think you are going, little filly?" a sinister voice said and she turned around in fear and bravery.

"I'm getting out of here and you can't stop me!" Colette yelled and she quickly opened the door and galloped out, she had to get out of here for her life!

The herd of friends galloped to the dark castle with Duncan and Elena beside them and Olga was behind them for some reason and she looked scared and worried. Autumn, Dahlia and Elizabeth were galloping between Sven and Magnus. Colleen wasn't with them because she was there to protect her grapevine. They heard somepony calling for help and they instantly recognised the accent in the voice and were relieved and happy. It was Colette! Sven instantly galloped faster than all of them and as soon as he got to her, he gave her a tight hug.

"Are you alright?" Sven asked in a worried voice but before Colette could give an answer, he gave a gasp of horror and touched her black eye.

"Did he do that to you?" Magnus said when he trotted up to her and hugged her.

Colette nodded slowly then touched her throat and when Magnus gave her a worried look, she again nodded slowly. When the herd of friends were about to turn around to go home, Elizabeth squealed and pointed in the opposite direction. They all turned around and saw the jet black pony galloping towards them alongside three sirens flying in the sky and going after them. They all galloped while Sven and Colette were shooting their magic at them but they missed so many times.

"You guys go on, Svetlana and I will try and beat those sirens with our voices!" Valentina yelled and she and Svetlana stopped and faced the sirens as soon as the jet black pony ran past them. The two mares took deep breaths and started to sing.

"You'll never bring us down!"

They sang and used a lot of power in their voices and it seemed to do a little damage to them. They then shot their magic at them and it hit two of them. The rest of the herd galloped towards their hometown with the jet black pony catching up to them! Elizabeth tried to get her wings to flap but she tripped as soon as she got to the air a little. The jet black pony then used his magic to toss her out of the way and Sven got so much anger that he shot powerful magic at the jet black pony and it hit him on the side. He seemed to have given a little pain but he still kept chasing them.

"Elena and I will hold him off, the rest of you go ahead and get yourselves to a safe place!" Olga yelled and everypony looked at her in confusion.

She was really going to use her magic? Elena nodded and turned to the jet black pony alongside Olga and they gave their brave faces.

"If you're going to fight him then I will too!" Colette yelled in bravery.

Sven tried to stop her but she convinced him that she would be fine. Everypony else ran back to the town. Olga then used her magic to take off her cloak and under that cloak was a pair of wings. She was an alicorn?! She then flew into the air and used very powerful magic on the jet black pony but he used some magic to knock into hers and it then hit her and she fell to the ground.

Colette then screamed in frustration and with all her anger, she shot some magic at the jet black pony and it sent him flying a little but he landed on his hooves and looked at her with angry bright green eyes.

Elena then flew into the air and she used her magic to get stars to go into her horn and she shot some sparkling magic that shone like the stars, the jet black pony then hit the magic back at her, Colette then jumped high into the air and the magic hit her instead and Olga lifted her head and opened her eyes to see her adoptive niece falling to the ground. She then flew and caught her but she didn't wake up.

That magic had just knocked her unconscious! Olga set Colette down gently beside Elena who had just landed back gently to the ground.

"Take care of her, I'll go handle him right now." Olga said with sadness in her voice and Elena nodded at her sadly.

Olga then galloped to the jet black pony who had a evil smile on his face.The rest of the herd of friends turned around and decided to gallop back to where Olga and Elena were fighting the jet black pony. They had to help them out but what could they do? They got to where they were and Sven gave a gasp of horror and shock. He galloped up to where Colette was laid down beside Elena.

"What had happened to her?" Sven asked as he lifted her head and he laid his head against hers and gave a small tear of sadness that landed on her cheek.

It was the first time he had ever cried and he had never cried over Selina's death. Colette suddenly moved her head a little and he heard her give a small groan of pain and she looked around. Sven gave a sigh of relief and happiness and hugged her close.

"Where's Olga?" Colette asked weakly.

"She's off to fight that monster who almost killed you." Elena said stroking the younger mare's mane.

"I should be fighting him, it's my fault that he's here."

Colette stood up unsteadily but she then fell to her side and felt a pain in her side.

"You're too weak now to do this, Olga will be just fine on her own." Elena reassured her.

"Why are you saying it's your fault that he is here right now?" Magnus asked as he trotted over to her.

Colette took a deep breath and gave a sigh of fear and relief as if she was happy that she was going to talk about it and get it out of the way.

"That jet black pony was a stallion that I was forced to marry some time ago but when I refused, he declared that he would find me again and take revenge on me and that is what he is doing." Colette replied in a sad voice and she then covered her face with her hooves and sobbed her eyes out.

Author's Note

A nice reference to Tangled in the middle of this chapter.