Celestia's Justice

Ch3

Crimson red blood dropped onto hard cobble. The large white alicorn was stained with blood, a look of pure anger and hatred on her face. She stared at the lifeless body of a colt with a knife it its throat. 'Stupid, useless colt. He doesn't know what he is talking about. I'm saving my good subjects from those who wish to hurt them.'

Celestia came down from her anger and her eyes softened. She sighed and hung her head. 'Well i have done just that. Equestria is saved from one criminal.' She thought for a second. 'And i can help rid the world of more....' she cracked a smile as she thought about it, about doing this to other ponies who were set on ruining her perfect kingdom. The idea filled her with hope.

Celestia left the body, washed up in some water leaking from the wall, grabbed with colts saddlebags full of syringes, and walked back up the dungeon stairs. 'No ones been down here in centuries, no one will find him.' She peaked her head through the cellar doors and looked around, no guards. She crawled out and closed the creaky doors.

The white alicorn turned the saddlebags invisible once more and walked down the hallways away from the doors that held a secret only she knew. Her mind raced with the events that had unfolded just moments ago, but instead of guilt or sadness, she felt pride. Pride that she had saved that little filly, and probably more ponies, from that dangerous colt. Celestia held her head high and smiled brightly as she walked to the throne room. The sun outside was up in the middle of the sky, it had only taken her a few hours to get rid of that pony.

She reached her room and tossed the invisible saddlebags under her bed, then left to the throne room. Her princess duties awaited.

***

The white alicorn's mane was still dull, but her eyes had somewhat brightened. Her duties done, she walked sleepily to her room and plopped onto her bed. 'This is it.' She thought. 'I hope i can sleep tonight. Luna, please bring sweet dreams and blissful sleep.' She silently prayed to her sister. She pulled her covers over her tired body and closed her eyes.

***

Pink eyes fluttered open just as the moon was starting to set, making room in the sky for the sun. The day princess smiled bigger than she had in years. 'Yes! It worked!' She jumped out of bed and skipped to the window. The white alicorn's horn shone a vibrant yellow as the sun took the moons place in the sky. She hummed happily to herself as she watched her work. Celestia walked back over to the mirror, her mane had gotten its color back and was now flowing like a river. She sighed in relief, back to normal.

Thr white alicorn stepped out of her room beaming with happiness. Her guards saluted her and she nodded back. As she walked down the hallway she thought of what to do next, who her next victim would be.. what she would do to him... her mind fell into fantasies about all she could do. She remembered the bag of syringes under her bed, wondering what they did. A sly smile formed on her white face. She could find out using her next victim.

Luna was in the kitchen making herself some blueberry pie when Celestia walked in. Luna smiled and looked at Celestia. "Sleep well i take it?" Her younger sister asked. Celestia nodded happily.

"Oh its a miracle, I feel so refreshed Luna." She chatted to Luna. Luna placed the pie on the counter with her magic, cut two slices, and trotted over to Celestia.

"Im so glad to hear it sister!" Luna hugged her older sister and Celestia hugged back. Luna picked up one of the slices of pie. "Well im going to bed, gotta have my strength to raise the moon tonight."

"Good... erm... morning sis! Sleep well!" Celestia chuckled as she watched her sister take a slice of pie to her room. 'Oh Luna, still eating in your room' she chuckled to herself as she picked up the other peice and took a bite. Delicious!

***

Celestia exited the castle and took flight. She wondered how she would capture somepony in the day. No one was going to comit a crime during the day... she flew over the city, staring down at her subjects below. Her smile grew as she thought of how she saved them from that horrible colt.

She flapped her giant feathery wings in the breeze and hovered low to the ground. Her subjects looked up in awe and bowed in respect. Celestia landed and chuckled. "There is no need for that, my little ponies." She said in a soothing voice. The ponies smiled and sat back up, going about their days once more. They stopped every once in a while and gave her a friendly nod, which she returned kindly.

She walked around the town, her body high above the other ponies. She felt powerful as she towered over them and they nodded to her. She was their ruler, their lives in her hooves. Celestia wandered around casually looking for any ponies causing disturbances.

It was nice to see all the little ponies going about their days. Mothers walked with their fillies and ponies exchanged brief conversation. Everyone was cheerfully enjoying this nice day.

"Hey! Get that unicorn!" Celestia wipped her head around as a yell of distress rang out. A yellow unicorn stallion with a short orange mane was racing quickly away, a coin bag was gripped in his magic aura. Celstias eyes narrowed in anger as she took off after him. He was very quick, but Celestia had better things than speed. She lit up her horn as she raced after him and he raised into the sky, his legs flailing beneath him. He let out angry grunts and struggled to free himself.

Ponies cheered as Celestia calmly walked over to the floating unicorn, a stoic look had been plastered on her face. She looked him straight in the eyes and he returned it with a glare, unflinching from the day princess. 'Oh this one will be fun' she thought. Celestia removed the coin bag from his grasp and handed it to the pony it had been taken from, who had ran up to thank her. Celestia smiled warmly at her subject's happiness. It felt good to help. Ponies ran up to thank and congratulate her, fillies and colts jumped around excitedly.

Celestia magically formed a magic nullifier around his horn and chains around the ponies front and back hooves to keep him from moving as he was released from her magic grasp. He attempted to run as soon as he touched the ground, but fell on his face with a groan. "Move along my subjects, i will take it from here" Celestia spoke with authority. Ponies continued their day happily chatting to eachother about how Celestia had caught that criminal.

3 Police ponies arrive just after, frantically panting. "P-princess! My apologies" they bowed. "We were dealing with a missing pony file when we got contacted about-"

"Silence, I have taken care of it. Please work on getting more ponies available for out calls" Celestia ordered. The ponies nodded in understanding.

"Absolutely my princess. We will work on that right away!" They all saluted and ran back to the police station. Celestia watched the large ponies.

Celestia smiled as she lifted the stallion onto her back and took off into the sky, seemingly going to the jail house. She slipped a small sleep spell onto him as they took off.

***

Celestia's stomach churned with butterflies as she trotted to the empty part of the castle. 'Why am i so excited for this? It seems so wrong... but feels so right...' She descended down the rocky stairs into the dungeon, the pony and bag of mystery syringes draped across her back. She reached the bottom of the dark spiral staircase and stopped next to her last victim. A sense of pride arose in her from seeing his blood and his cold dead eyes.

Celestia removed the dead colt from where he was hanging on chains and gently placed it in a corner of the room avoiding his blood. She then began to string up her newest victim, he groaned in his sleep. She secured his hooves in tight metal chains.

"Ugh. Oof..." Groaning came from the yellow unicorn as he started to wake up. Celestia backed up into the dark. His eyes peeled open lazily and his mouth hung open. "Wh-wha..." he leaned his head side to side and saw nothing but stone. He tried to move his hooves but they remained in place, he winced at how tight the restraints were. "Hello? Police?" He sounded stable, and annoyed. "Is this some form of interogation? Princess Celestia caught me, there are tons of witnesses, you don't need a story from me" he spoke into the darkness waiting for a police pony to come talk to him. Celestia decided to have a bit of fun with this.

"What is your name, stallion?" Celestia asked in a stoic voice.

She heard a sigh "Lemon Grass"

"And I assume you know why you are here?"

He snorted "I stole some mare's coin bag. Why are you standing in the dark? Shouldn't i be able to see you?"

Celestia stepped forward and pulled the bag of syringes behind her. The stallions eyes grew in size.

"What the hell are those for? I've told you the truth." He started to struggle a little, uneasy. Celestia licked her lips.

"Tell me Lemon Grass. Have you any idea what these do?" She asked pointing at the open bag filled with syringes. He eyes them, confused, then looked at Celestia as if she were pulling a prank.

"Um... how the hell am i supposed to know? What does this have to do with interogation?" He ask, obviously irritated. Celestia smiled.

Celestia grabbed one with a glowing green liquid in her hoof and held it up to her face. It reflected green on her white face. She eyed the stallion as if to say 'ready?' He gave her a puzzled look. Just as he was about to ask something, she stabbed the needle into his right flank, under the cutie mark.

The stallion let out a surprised gasp and gave Celestia a glare. "What the hell was that for??" He shouted. Celestia just watched, an emotionless look on her face. Truthfully inside her, she was feeling guilty, but still excited.

The stallion kept yelling at Celestia asking her what was in the syringe for a few minutes as the juice soaked in. Suddenly the stallion screamed mid sentence. Celestia's eyes widened in curiosity. The stallion clenched his teeth together and let out a small screach. Celestia gasped as the skin around his flank appeared to bubble, it was bright red and swollen. Suddenly the skin burst and chunks of muscle and skin splattered across thr floor, blood poured from the wound. The stallion was screaming at the top of his lungs and struggling as hard as he could manage. The muscle underneath the broken skin sizzled as if being cooked. Celestia watched intensely, subconciously licking her lips. The muscle swelled up and burst as well, chunks of nerves and bone going with it.

Tears streamed down the yellow ponies face as he screamed and then vomited all over the floor, mixing with the blood and gore beneath him. Celestia winced at the vomit, but ignored it after a while.

The remains of the ponies flank sizzled for a few more minutes. Celestia listened to his screams of pain as she observed the effects of the mystery liquid. The stallion's cries grew softer as the sizzling wore off, only to be replaced with light crying.

Celestia spoke. "Interesting. I'll have to save that one for future use..." the stallion looked at her with pure hatred and malice.

"Why... did you... do that..." he gasped between breaths. Celestia smiled, glad to explain.

"Scum like you are ruining Equestria. Everypony can be happy and safe when there are none of you criminals left." She let out a slight chuckle.

The unicorn stared at her in shock and fear. "Y-you can't do this. I deserve a proper trial! You can't kill me!" Celestia's smile faded.

"Garbage like you deserve nothing but death and pain." She stated coldly. This made the unicorn flinch. He yanked at his restraints a bit, but to Celestia's surprise, gave up and stared at the ground.

"Do it then. Kill me." Celestia was caught off guard by this. He's not struggling or begging for freedom? She began to feel bored at this, 'better make it interesting again'