Fear Her

"Now I have enough power to avenge my mother!" Blue laughed, her eyes turning to slits.

"Blue! Come back to reality! This isn’t the way!" Spirit yelled, tears stinging her eyes.

"Chrysalis will pay for murdering my mother!"

"Revenge isn’t the way! Princess Luna is gone, and you can’t bring her back!"

"Oh but it is! And I will fully DESTROY HER!"

Blue Moon slammed her hooves down, shattering the edge of the balcony she stood on. A dark aura surrounded her, fully changing the mare. She let out a spine-shivering laugh.

"Blue, this isn’t you!"

"Oh but it is me! Now, to finish off that pest!"

Blue laughed yet again, flying out. Spirit was left hopeless, with nothing but one wing and pain

Spirit just ran after her.

"CHRYSALIS!" The insect turned around, to see the strange mare behind her.

Spirit panted, "Blue! Stop!"

"You’re too late!"

The blue mare charged at the bug queen, suddenly being stopped by an extended wing. The wing pushed her back, Spirit stepping in between the two.

"You’ve gone too far, Blue! I have but no choice!"

Blue let out a shocked gasp, as Spirit pulled an amulet out of her messed up bun. She threw it down, being lifted into the air.

"No! I will destroy anyone in my path! Including you!"

Both mares charged, their collision sending out a massive shockwave, rattling the trees.

***

Spirit burst up. "BLUE!"

Cookie slammed open the door, "Spirit, you alright!?"

She was breathing heavily as sweat dripped down her forehead.

"Another nightmare?"  Neko dragged herself in, barely able to open her eyes from exhaustion.

Spirit nodded.

"Hmph. Time to take you to Zecora." Cookie said. "Come on."

***

"Call off the troops, Thundra!" Cookie yelled out.  Thundra nodded, giving the command to her army.  A large crater sat in the middle of the field, still smoking.

Thundra, Cookie, Neko, Cotton, Spirit, and Blue trotted up to the crater.  The elements still were around their foreheads, just above their eyes as small gems.  They held their heads high, staring down at the mare in the center.

"What is your name?" Thundra glared at her, keeping her voice steady.

The mare looked up, sitting up slowly.  She had on a cracked crown and a silky mane.  Her wings were similar to a butterfly's.

"My name is Princess Papillon."

***

"My friends, what do you seek?  Another dragons tail, or an eagle's beak?" Zecora glanced to each of them.

"Actually Zecora, Spirit's been having these nightmares about Night Shade every night.  We don't know how to help her." Cookie said.

"I see I see, perhaps I have the solution you seek.  Come with me, Spirit Berry." Zecora led her to a table, sitting her down. "Your problem is not but a physical feature, but what's in here." She pointed to her head.

"What do you mean?" Spirit asked.

"You have been dreaming about your sister, have you not?" Zecora asked, raising her eyebrows.

Spirit nodded.

"Well, perhaps if you talked to your sister again, maybe then will you get rid of the nightmares in your head."

"Zecora, I can't talk to her again.  I don't even know where she is."

"Leave that to me." She led them to the cauldron.

"I'll bring you to your sister, but that is as far as I can go.  For a zebra's face cannot be shown."

"Okay."

They closed their eyes, feeling a tingle.  They then opened them, and gasped.

***

Spirit was looking at the ground, hiding the redness in her cheeks.  She felt the faint brush of Liz's fur as he attached her mechanical wing to the tiny stub of what once was her real wing.

Neko whispered to Cookie. "They totally like each other." Cookie nodded in agreement.

"All done." Liz said, wiping off his hooves.

"For a royal engineer, you're pretty good at your job." Spirit chuckled.

"Pfft.  Anyways, go ahead and give it a flap."

She nodded, flapping the wing.  She could hear the tiny gears inside of it work.

"Alrighty.  Start off with baby steps when you start flying, alright?"

"Of course." She said as they walked out, closing the door.

"Dreamy?" Cookie mocked Spirit.

"Oh please!" Spirit replied, hiding her blush.