Assassinverse: The Blackest Night

Underneath her younger sister’s moonlight, Princess Celestia made her way through the Canterlot Castle Gardens, wearing an expression that suggested that she was doing her best not to break down. Approaching a solid hedge, Celestia’s horn lit up with a soft golden glow, causing an entrance to appear in the hedge.

However, Celestia was not prepared for what was on the other side of the hedge.

Flash Sentry, a pegasus stallion with orange fur and a navy blue mane and tail wearing the dress uniform of the Equestrian military, Twilight Velvet, a unicorn mare with a lavender-and-white striped mane and tail wearing a black dress with matching heels and gold earrings, and Night Light, a blue unicorn stallion with a dark blue mane and tail wearing a black suit and tie, were all standing together, apparently having a heated discussion about something.

Flash was the first to spot the puzzled Celestia. He motioned Twilight’s mother and father to follow him, and the three ponies walked up to the Solar Princess. “Where is she?” demanded Twilight Velvet, a look of the utmost fury on her face.

Celestia blinked. “She?” she repeated in a tone of confusion.

“My daughter’s body! The one who died on your watch!” shouted Velvet as tears began to run down her face.

“Honey, that’s not really fair-” Night Light started to say, before a glare from his wife forced him into silence.

“I don’t understand… Twilight’s body should be…” said Celestia, pointing in the direction of Twilight’s glass casket, only to withdraw the same hand in shock at what she saw.

The glass lid of Twilight’s casket had been shattered. Lavender feathers littered both the empty bed and the ground beside it. Shreds of Twilight’s coronation gown mingled with the feathers, shards of broken glass, and the stems of the enchanted flowers. Twilight’s body was nowhere to be seen.

Celestia looked at Flash, who answered her unspoken question at once.

“It was like that when I got here, Your Highness.”

“I… I don’t understand this. Who would want to steal Twilight’s body?” asked Celestia.

“That’s what we’d like to know,” said Night Light, holding his wife close to him.

…

Twilight Sparkle was moving across the rooftops of Canterlot, trying to put as much distance between her and the castle as possible, but with little success owing to her own inexperience of having wings. Twilight’s lavender fur was now corpse-gray, her navy blue mane and tail were now jet black with the magenta stripe now a dull gray. Her wings were now nothing more than exposed bone, and her eyes were now jet-black and an unholy shade of purple. She wore a black tanktop with a strange symbol on the front, black pants with a black leather belt with the same symbol as her tanktop, and black heeled boots.

What’s happening to me? thought Twilight as she cleared the gap between two more rooftops. I was… dead, wasn’t I? I could’ve sworn I was in Elysium, having drinks with Star Swirl the Bearded and all my other idols. Then, someone told me to rise, and next thing I know, I’m here. But, I feel so strange… so… empty. Almost like I can’t feel at all… my body’s changed, too, and where did I get these clothes? And this black ring?

Twilight couldn’t come up with an answer to any of her questions. Suddenly, the rooftop vanished, revealing two violet pony-esque shapes that looked like they were lumped together and floating a foot off the ground. The shock of the abrupt change in perspective caused Twilight to trip and fall into an alleyway between two buildings. Twilight slammed her head against the metal corner of a dumpster as she fell, leaving a wound.

What the buck?! thought Twilight. Her vision kept switching between her normal vision and the strange vision with the pony-shaped colors. On top of that, she heard a squishing sound near her ear, and realized that the injury she sustained from smashing against the dumpster was healing at an accelerated rate.

Okay, so accelerated healing and some kind of crazy alternate vision is part of my new… thing, thought Twilight, finally mastering the focus to keep her vision like it normally was. Once she had, however, she noticed that there were a couple of stallions making their way to the building on her immediate left who seemed to be making an awful lot of effort to keep their faces hidden.

”Whew, just made it,” one of the stallions said.

Twilight gasped in shock. She recognized that voice… it belonged to one of her… killers, she supposed.

”Killing that 'Princess’ was easier than I thought it would be. Guess it goes to show you that she should have never tried to change anything.”

As the stallion spoke, Twilight began to feel some of her unexplained emptiness become hunger. Like she wanted nothing more than to pounce upon the two stallions and feast upon their hearts.

Assuming they HAVE hearts, anyway, thought Twilight.

”Sure hope it was worth it to Blueblood. He’d do anything to get his father’s love, and this proves it,” the second stallion said.

Twilight let out a second gasp of recognition. That was Gallant Stride! One of her personal bodyguards.

So, Blueblood wanted me dead… congratulations, Prick Blueblood, you’ve graduated from ‘Prince Charmless’ to ‘Evil Prince,’” thought Twilight.The hunger inside her seemingly increased as she made her way closer to the stallions.

The two stallions entered the building, shutting Twilight out of the rest of their conversation. Twilight cast a forlorn glance at her bone wings, and wished she could still fly.

No sooner had the wish formed in her mind than Twilight shot up into the air like a rocket.

Woah! Twilight almost yelled as she continued her ascent. StopstopstopstopSTOP! she commanded and just like when she wished to fly, she stopped in midair, just hovering like a kite on a summer breeze.

Twilight, very, very carefully, flew back down to the building and landed on the rooftop. She walked over to the skylight and crouched down, and used a Eavesdropping Spell. Only this time, instead of her usual lavender glow, her horn produced a black glow.

”WERE YOU SEEN?” asked a voice that Twilight immediately recognized as Prince Blueblood’s, except he sounded like he was yelling into her ear.

Twilight quickly moved her hands over her ears to try and lower the volume of the voice, but failed as it kept going in the same volume.

”NO, PRINCE BLUEBLOOD. WE WERE NOT FOLLOWED.” Gallant Stride replied to Blueblood.

”GOOD. THANKS TO YOU FIVE, THAT INSUFFERABLE KNOW-IT-ALL IS ROTTING IN TARTARUS. SHE THINKS SHE CAN JUST COME ALONG, PLAY UP MY AUNTY, AND BECOME A GODDESS? AND ON TOP OF THAT, SHE HAS THE GALL TO CHANGE EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN PART OF EQUESTRIA EVER SINCE ITS INCEPTION? OVER MY FATHER’S DEAD BODY!” said Blueblood.

As Blueblood continued his rant at full blast, the hunger inside Twilight began to reach fever peak. Until, finally, she couldn’t stave it off any longer, and lunged through the skylight.

“What the buck?!” yelled Blueblood as he and the soldiers moved back against the wall to avoid getting squished. All six of the men were frozen in shock at the sight of the bizarre creature before them. If they didn’t know there were no such thing as zombies, then that would be an accurate summary of what they saw before them.

“What is that thing?” Blueblood screeched in fright.

“What's the matter Blueblood? Did you forget about me? The mare you had killed! I'm hurt, truly I am,” said Twilight, her voice going deeper than a well and blacker than obsidian.

“Sparkle…?” said Blueblood.

”Bingo.”

“You look… great! Especially for a dead mare,” said Blueblood as a strong smell began to emanate from him and a wet patch appeared on the front of his pants.

”Flattery won’t save you now. Not even Faust herself can save you from my revenge,” said Twilight before she lunged at Blueblood, only to be knocked back by a horrified Gallant Stride. The other four guards also took up fighting stances.

Twilight let out an animalistic snarl. ”I will eat your hearts!” she snarled as jet-black knife appeared in her hand.

“Kill that thing! And this time, make sure she stays dead!” yelled Blueblood.

Gallant Stride and the other four charged towards the living corpse standing before them, with their weapons drawn. Twilight leaped into the air, higher than she knew she could leap under normal circumstances and threw herself at one of her killers, her knife piercing him in the throat. Twilight didn’t have time to claim his heart, however, as another guard swung a chair at her. Ducking under it with a snarl, Twilight fired a beam of jet-black magic at the soldier, blasting not only a hole in his chest, but a large hole in the wall.

The third and fourth guard went down with very little effort. Finally only Gallant was left. A wicked smile forming on Twilight’s face, Gallant felt all the fight and bravery leave him as he sank to Twilight’s knees.

“Twilight, I’m sorry! You-you don’t understand! They were gonna kill my little brother if I didn’t go through with the hit. I was trying to save you! You don’t have to do this,” begged Gallant.

”You’re right. I don’t have to kill you,” said Twilight, just before she slit Gallant’s throat. ”I just want to.”

Blueblood, who now smelled very strongly of urine, backed as far away as he could from Twilight, but quickly found there was nowhere to run as the undead Alicorn Princess knocked him to the ground.

”I heard every word you said about me, and you know Blueblood, there are a few things you never knew about me.” Twilight said as she approached the one who ordered her death. ”First, I've been your Aunt’s personal student since I was old enough to enter kindergarten. Second, I earned the right to become an Alicorn by finishing Starswirl’s last spell. Finally, I was trying to make Equestria better, by showing a new way of thinking that would be beneficial to everyone.” Twilight said as she grabbed Blueblood by his neck and lifted him into the air, ”And just to spite you, I never went to Tartarus. Before I was revived I was having the time of my afterlife in Elysium talking to Starswirl and every other Equestrian I idolized. But I'm afraid I can't say the same for you.”

The last thing in this world that Prince Blueblood came to know was what true terror felt like. He let out an ear-piercing scream as Twilight’s knife plunged into his chest and began to carve out his heart. Once the vital organ was free from Blueblood’s corpse, Twilight began to eat it like a wild animal feeding on an animal carcass. Normally, a pony wouldn’t even dream of eating part of another pony, but to Twilight, Blueblood’s heart was about the best thing she ever tasted.

No sooner had Twilight finished her meal and satisfied her hunger than the door leading into the room crashed open, and a swarm of Royal Guard entered the room,among them was none other than Shining Armor, who stopped dead when he saw the devastation that lay before him.

“T-Twily…?” Shining Armor said in shock and horror.

Twilight smiled, which was not entirely a pleasant sight with the blood dripping from her mouth. “Hey, BBBFF,” she said.

“What- how- what- how-” Shining babbled like an idiot before Twilight spoke for him.

“I’m not entirely sure myself, Shiny. But, one thing’s for sure. I don’t think I’m a pony anymore… I’ve evolved into something else entirely,” said Twilight, a sinister smile forming on her face. ”Funny thing, evolution, isn’t it? No matter how many obstacles get in its way, the strongest always survives. And you know what they say about evolution? Even amoebas can do it. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got work to do. Good-bye, Shiny.” Twilight said as she shot up through the building and out the hole in the roof, leaving Shining Armor, feeling utterly confused and devastated in her dust.

“Twilight… what have you become?” Shining Armor whispered to himself as he began to feel tears forming once more.

…

Twilight finally came to rest somewhere in Manehattan. Slowly, very slowly, her rationality was returning to her… along with the realization that she’d just taken six lives, and even went as far as to eat somepony’s heart.

And she didn’t feel even a little bad about it. In fact, she didn’t feel anything at all.

“What am I becoming…?” Twilight whispered to herself as she examined her body.