The Thunder Twist Chronicle

Chapter 17

I stare at her numbly for a few minutes, still flying. Tears start streaming down my face, filling my goggles. I speed even faster toward Canterlot, not wanting it to be true, hoping against hope that it’s not true.

I see Canterlot in the distance and increase my speed even more. I don’t even slow down as I enter the city. I head straight for the castle.

As I approach the giant golden doors, I scream at the guards, “OPEN THE DAMN DOORS OR I’LL BUST THEM DOWN!” The doors open just in time as I skid to a halt in the throne room as I see Princess Celestia and Princess Luna sitting there, as if awaiting a report.

“Ah, Thunder Twist,” Princess Celestia says happily. “Have you come to-.” She sees the limp form of Sil in my forelegs, both of us covered in blood. She screams.

“Princess,” I stammer, out of breath, “please, is there something you can do to help her. Please, I beg you, do something.”

Celestia looks at her sister, then back at me. “I’m sorry, Thunder Twist, but, though our powers are great, my sister and I are not capable of reviving the dead.”

I look at her in disbelief as my life comes crashing down. My grief turns to anger as I run un to the Princess of the Sun and punch her in the face. “DAMN YOU. DAMN YOU BOTH. YOU ARE FUCKING DEITIES. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE. YOU SHOULD HAVE BOTH FUCKING BEEN THERE. IF YOU WERE SO MANY DEATHS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED.” I punch her again. “IF YOU HAD BEEN THERE, SIL WOULD STILL BE ALIVE, SO WOULD GAMBIT, TWILIGHT AND PINKIE. BECAUSE OF YOU, MY BEST FRIEND AND WIFE ARE DEAD. I NEVER WANT TO SEE EITHER OF YOU AGAIN.” With another punch, I turn, pick up Sil again and fly out of the throne room.

I reach our house shortly afterward. I take Sil up to our bedroom and lay her down on the bed. I lie down next to her, looking at her painfully calm face.

“Sil, I love you, too,” I whisper to her corpse. I start crying rivers. I take off my goggles to see her better. The light hurts my eyes but I don’t care. Slowly, I take off my mask and set it to the side. I cuddle up to her cold body and give her one last kiss.

They found them like that. Luna had come to apologize, and, upon getting no answer from within, she let herself in. Thunder Twist and Shining Silver were curled together, their mouths touching in an eternal kiss.