Princess Amity

Early in the morning, Remedy awakes and finds herself being hugged by a sleeping Amity with her back against the princess abdomen. She carefully slides out of Amitys arms, exists the room, and heads downstairs. Remedy goes to her bookshelf and lofts several books with her magic and reads through them quickly and frantically.

"Come on, there's got to be something in," Remedy whispers to herself. "I donlt remember studying like that happening." She continues to read and look through books for hours then sits in a recliner and rubs her temples. "Think. Okay. Ponies usually embrace their dark magic through temptation. How can temptation be in a dream? Having nightmares isn't unusual. Unless...something provoked her in it? But how?" Remedy stands and reads through more until she falls back asleep on the recliner.

        "Mom?" Amber asks her mother the next morning.

        The filly spooks Remedy making her jump a bit. "Oh, Amber. It's just you."

        "I thought you were in bed, Mommy," Amber says to Remedy.

        "I was, but I woke up early," Remedy says. "I thought to read some to pass the time. Let me get you some breakfast."

        After some time passes, Remedy is drinking some coffee, and Amber is preparing to leave. The filly then asks, "Is the princess still asleep?"

        Remedy answers, "I think so. She had a rough day yesterday. Give me a hug and go to school, dear."

        The filly hugs her mother and exists the house. She walks down a trail heading towards the town listening to the morning birds chirp. She sees a squirrel scamper across the trail and then runs off. Amber tries to look for the animal but then accidentally hits a heavy object in front of her and falls to the ground.

        She rubs her head and looks up to see a gargantuan dark blue unicorn standing before her. He looks down at her offers his hoof to her, and she places her hoof on it. The filly is then lifted up on her hooves. "Are you okay, my little pony?" the stallion asks.

        "Yes, sir," Amber apologizes. "I'm so sorry."

"Oh my dear," the alicorn replies. "Don't be."

She then sees that the unicorn has wings and asks, "Are you an alicorn?"

        "Yes I am," the alicorn confirms and spreads his massive wings before Amber.

        "Cool, I get to meet another alicorn!" Amber excitedly says.

        The stallion then asks,"'Another'? You wouldn't happen to be talking about Princess Amity would you?"

        In the guest bedroom, Amity wakes up slowly, yawns, and sits up. Her eyes are bloodshot, mane is mangled, and mouth is dry. She struggles to get out of bed, and when she does, she has difficulty standing up. She eventually finds her balance and looks at herself in the mirror. She gets spooked for a second by her bloodshot eyes but calms down quickly. "Oh," Amity says, "they're just bloodshot." She continues to stare at herself in the mirror while the redness in her eyes fades away slowly. "You will not control me. I will not embrace you." She continues to stare at herself.

"But he will kill Mom," a voice says. Amity turns turn around quickly to see nothing. "If you don't let me free, Mom will die. Let me free. Embrace me. It's the only way." Amity shakes her violently.

        In the kitchen, Remedy is drinking coffee from a mug and thinks, "Didn't she say she heard a voice in her dream the other night? Maybe it was Nightmare Moon? Wait, that can't be right. She would know if it was Nightmare Moon and not Luna." She then hears three knocks on her door, sets the coffee on the table, approaches the door, and opens it to see a massive, muscular, dark blue, male alicorn standing before her. "Yes?" Remedy questions the stallion. The alicorn smiles sadistically. "Oh my Celestia," Remedy says in shock.

        "That's no way to speak to your future king," the alicorn replies. "But yes. It is I, Triton. May I come in?"

        Intensely, Remedy asks, "What do you want?"

        "To see my cousin's daughter," Triton answers followed by a chuckle.

        Remedy swiftly uses her magic to put an aurora around the door and slams it shut. The sound of the door slamming spooks Amity, and she walks out of the bedroom, heads for the stairs, and even before she starts walking down, Amity sees Remedy walking away from the door.

        "What's going on?" Amity asks.

        Remedy turns and says, "Hide!"

        Suddenly, the front door flies off its hinges and hits Remedy from behind knocking her out. Amity rushes down to her mentor and screams, "Remedy!"

        "Now, that was just rude," Triton stepping inside the house says. He sees Amity and continues, "Ah, Princess Amity. We finally meet in person. Did you sleep well?"

        Amity directs her attention to the blue alicorn but does not respond. She stands and breathes in and out heavily. Without saying a word, she slips her right hoof under the door which is on her teacher and with great ease and speed throws the door at Triton. However before the door hits him, Triton uses his magic to turn the door into dust instatntly. Amity then walks up to him with an intense expression, and she presses her chest against the clearly larger alicorn's chest and stares directly into his eyes.

        Calmly Amity says, "I am going to ask you once, surrender yourself and leave me, Mother, my friend, and Equestria alone."

        Triton giggles while staring back at her and replies, "You stubborn brat. Do you have any idea who I am?"

        Remedy turns on her back and sees Amity confronting Triton then says, "Amity, get away from him! Let your mother handle this!"

        "You better listen to that unicorn," Triton says to Amity. Remedy tries to stand but screams in pain. "Donlt move there little mare. You may have a broken lower back. I'm just that strong that I can make a door break bones."

        Amity then swiftly swings at Triton with her right hoof hitting his left cheek, but he does not flinch. Within seconds, Triton throws a right uppercut which Amity dodges then brings her hooves up and throws punches swiftly at Triton's face and legs while breathing with every punch thrown. Despite hitting his as hard she can, the hits are useless. Amity quickly shoots a magic beam from her horn and hits Triton's face, then flies up the stairs and turns to her left. The blue alicorn unaffected by the beam follows her up the stairs, and when he gets to the top, he gets hit in the throat by a kick from Amity's bottom left hoof. He stumbles back a little, coughs once, and looks at Amity who is on all fours again and walking backwards.

        "Not bad," Triton says. "Let me ask you something, why do you keep fighting?" He starts walking towards her with smile.

        Amity responds, "Because you are nothing more than a monster! I have to do something!"

        Triton then asks, "What do you think this will accomplish?"

        "Stopping you from turning Equestria into a hellhole like you did with Pandora," Amity answers.

        Triton asks, "Hm. Is fighting me going to help find your purpose?"

        Amity then smirks, "I don't care. All I know is right now I have to stop you from hurting all of the ponies I love, and I WILL die try!" Suddenly, she chrages at him but then teleports from in front of Triton to behind him. She grabs his waist, lifts, and suplxes him to the floor with Triton landing on his neck and the back of his head. Amity however is still holding on and suplexes him again. Then the sides of her flank start glowing bright and as fast the light came, it disappears just as quickly. The sides of her flanks now have a cutie mark of a silver shield with a golden heart in the middle of it.

        Triton calmly sits up and stands. "Oh how cute, you have your cutie mark. That doesn't matter though."

        Within a second, Triton fires a magical beam from his horn at Amity, hitting her chest, and the impact of the beam sends her flying backwards crashing through the wall behind her and falling into a bush between two trees near the house. Amity screams in pain and clutching my chest which now has a circular, fuming burnt mark. Triton walks to the wall, uses a magic beam to make the hole in the wall bigger, steps onto the edge, and looks down to see Amity in pain.

        "Pathetic," Triton says. A black colored magic aurora then glows around his horn then the plant life around the princess grow massive and quickly wrap around her almost like the trees are mummifying her. Her entire body is covered in tree limbs expect for her face. "Time to finish this." Triton then uses his magic to create thorns all over the limbs which thorns penetrate through Amity's skin and muscles. Amity squeals pain and blood starts flowing out of the wounds. Triton continues, "You know, I was going to have these thorns run completely through your body, but I'd figure a slow painful death is more appropriate, and not to mention..." He floats down to the ground, stands over Amity, and says directly to her face, "this should force you to embrace the dark magic within you. If this doesn't work, well...you'll die." Triton then laughs again. "Now if you excuse me, I'm going to see your mother, kill her, and become the King of...no wait! God of Equestria."

        Amity in excruciating pain screams, "Don't you dare lay your hoof on her!"

        Triton makes a devious smile, "Watch me." He then extends his wings, darts through the trees, sees Canterlot on the horizon, and flies towards the city laughing all the way.

        Remedy crawls out of the damaged house and sees Triton flying away and Amity wrapped up. She struggles to crawl towards the princess, but the overwhelming pain in her lower back is too intense for her to move but a couple of feet. "Amity," she says. "My back's broken. I can't concentrate my magic. Stay with me. Help will come." Amity does not respond and simply stares into the sky and barely breathing.

        At Canterlot, Princess Celestia stands in her daughter's room and looks over Amity's belongings. She then walks out quickly and heads to the throne room with no other pony present. She sits in her throne, removes her crown, necklace, and hoof shakers, lowers the sun a little, and waits for Triton to walk through the throne room doors.

        Triton arrives at Canterlot and quickly notices that there are no ponies in the city nor are there any guards at the castle doors. He lands in front of the doors, opens them, and shouts, "Celestia! I'm back!"

        The echoes of his shout reach to Celestia and says softly, "This ends here."

        "Amity? Say something." Remedy says, but the princess does not respond. "Amity? Amity!"

        Amity's vision is fading, eyes are closing, hearing has vanished, and heart is slowly down. She can barely hear Remedy calling for her, but it only sounds muttered. Her eyes close and hears her own heart beating slower and about to stop. Then, in the blackness from closing her eyes, the white form of herself from the nightmares charges at her with tears running down her face and screams, "We can't let Mom die!" Suddenly, Amity's eyes open.

        "Speak to me please, Amity!" Remedy begs and starts to tear up. Then, a white aurora consumes Amity's body which burns the limbs off and heals her wounds. "Oh no," Remedy says aloud.

        Triton walks up some stairs and continues to head towards the throne room. "Your time has come Celestia!"

        With the limbs burnt off, Amity sits up and stands on all fours with the white aurora still around her. The aurora then starts disappearing revealing that Amity has turned white with bat like wings and a mane and tail both blood-red. She stares at Remedy with blood-red cat like eyes with an evil expression on her face, then she turns to the forest where Canterlot is.

        "Amity?" Remedy asks.

        "You know that you can't kill me Cousin!" Triton continues to shout aloud. He then sees the throne room doors. "For I am Triton!"

        The white Amity turns back to Remedy and says, "She is dead. I am Bloodlust."

        "I am..." Triton then barges through the doors and sees Celestia sitting on her throne, and when she sees him, Celestia charges at him. Triton with a devious smile continues, "God!"

        "I am..." Bloodlust turns back to the forest and sees Canterlot through the trees in the horizon and finishes, "Death!" She then extends her bat like wings and swiftly soars through the sky and heads towards Canterlot.

        Remedy still in pain says, "Oh God."