The Rise of Lord Naturus, aka the Tree of Harmony

Flurry Heart was now seven years old, an a feisty child, but she still loved her parents near and dear. She walked out of her room and to her surprise, the whole castle was transforming.

The crystalline structure was replaced with white marble bricks and wooden ceilings and floors. Red rugs unrolled until they went across the hallway. Banners of a matching color unrolled from the ceiling, depicting black markings that resembled a catlike eye. Gold, silver and, an unknown material (platinum) were arranged into beautiful patterns across the walls, sure to put Canterlot to shame.

"Woah, what happened?" she said. She didn't have time to admire what happened when a screech came from behind. She looked around to see a giant blue spider scuttling towards her, but something was off, its head was missing, it had six legs instead of eight, and it didn't appear to be able to spin webs. Flurry heard several other screeches and saw a whole hoard of them coming towards her. "Gotta' go." she said.

Flurry galloped across the halls, being chased by a horde of spiders. She knew next to nothing about the transformed castle, so she decided to go to a door on the left. "Woah," she said as she ran through what appeared to be a museum. The spiders kept on coming so she didn't have time to admire the scenery.

She ran to the right and ran up a spiral staircase. "Oh no, they can climb!" Flurry Heart said as she looked down, the spiders were walking up the walls and the staircase. She decided that in order to get away from them, she had to fly upwards. She unfolded her wings and flew off the stairs, higher and higher up the staircase, she felt something warm on her right hind leg and saw acid on it. "Gah, those things spit acid!"

She shook the acid off of her leg, sending it back downwards.

"No time to go to a door, I've got to go to the top before they do, or else I'll get captured." she said as she increased her speed, the spiders were still advancing and even spitting acid at her. When she landed at the top of the staircase, she went through the door, only to find an army of spiders at the top as well. She had no other options but to-

"GET AWAY FROM HER!" a guard said as he tackled a spider. "Go, Flurry Heart, I'm not sure if he killed you're parents, but go!" The poor guard was tackled by the spiders, who proceeded to eat him. Flurry Heart jumped on a chariot drawn by pegasi, her mother's chariot.

"Get on, we can't do this for much longer." a guard said as he pointed downwards with his hoof, an army of spiders was climbing up the exterior of the transformed castle. Flurry Heart jumped on the chariot, and the guards flew away from the transformed Empire, a pool of acid was replacing the houses and streets. "Oh no," she said, a tear coming down from her face.

"GAH! Why you little!" a voice said as a beam of blue light came from a window, aiming for the chariot she was on. Thinking quickly, Flurry Heart shot a laser from her horn. The two beams met, creating an explosion. Flurry Heart was now safe on her mother's chariot, but she was sad about her mother. Sobbing, she looked forward as the chariot flew to Canterlot. She hoped that her parents were safe and alive.