The Void: Alone in The Dark

Celestiass break has been a relief that she desired for years. Finally, she calmed down enough from her prior encounter with discord, she wanted to spend some time with her subjects, and she had a filly-like curiosity for the display that the ponies from the now forgotten village promised her to see. She had two guards leading the way, and when she arrived, all the residents bowed down when they saw her majesty. The town major, among the bowing ponies, was the first to rise and meet with the princess. He was a pony that became the mayor from the popularity that he obtained from being the hero of the village. He protected the ponies from beast that dwelled in the forest which compensated the scar on his right eye, a sign of his battle experience.

"Your highness let me introduce myself. I am the mayor of the town." The mayor said.

"Charmed," responded Celestia. She thought of the mayor of being somewhat too robust to be a political pony, but she could see that the village was deep inside a dangerous forest. It was barbaric at first, but the village had many buildings with good maintenance, and the residences were behaving normally around her. At least, they are civilized... hmmm, I can’t help but feel discords presence nearby, but something is different about it, she thought about it. Maybe it has to do with the display they wanted to show me... Hold it, I am actuality paranoid.'.

"Ahem, Excuse me for being too straightforward, but I heard there was an interesting display that your village hold for viewers," She stated.

"Why of course your majesty, but we wanted you to join us on our feast first. Royalty does not visit this hidden village in the woods much, and we wanted to prepare you to see such a peculiar sight," he nervously responded. This was a surprise to Celestia considering that by the appearance the mayor seems so tough, a pony who survived the biggest feats. Now, this made Celestia more curious about the display. She then invented an excuse to skip the feast and investigate what was going on.

"You see, I already consumed a meal before my short trip here, and I am satisfied so I don’t need more, but thank you for the offer. Now, Can you show me it?" She asked.

"Your majesty... please, at least join us for some time, we need to explain some things first..." he said, sweating heavily while his strong heart pumped hard to prepare him to run. Celestia did not have any trouble finding his discomfort.

"What is all the commotion about? Surely there is nothing to be..." she stopped and felt a strong presence of discord nearby, or so she thought. "Where is he?! Show me to him, did he threaten you?!" she demanded.

"Who... him? No, we have him in an enchanted cage. He cannot do anything inside," he said with a confident posture that soon turned into an intimidation due to Celestias power aura.

"You underestimate his power, and you might as well be discorded and live under his rule... This has got to stop! Show me to him now!" She ordered with her eyes glowing. She was later escorted to the cage, where she prepared a spell of harmony to weaken discord.

The villagers were growing nervous as they soon realized that their actions were wrong. Most ponies were very worried of Celestias might; especially since they imprisoned Drazard and gave him the worst of treatments.

“That’s an interesting cage you have their, Discord could easily break through that… How did you do it?” Celestia asked very excited with some doubt in her voice tone. She then became disgusted by the smell of the cage, “What is that horrible smell?” She then said, “Are you sure that this is discord that is in this cage?”

“No…*gulp*… it’s not Discord,” nervously said the Mayor. “Although princes!” his voice spike with confidence as he tried to soften the blow of Celestia disappointment. “My ponies and I have captured another Draconiquus and placed it in this cage to prevent it from causing chaos in our land!” boasted the Mayor with pride. ‘I hope she falls for this’ thought the Mayor.

“Oh really? Why didn’t you say so?” Celestia said exited to meet the new draconiquus, “I must have a closer look, but why does the cage have a putrid order? Why is it in the cage? Why didn’t you tell me before?” Celestia bombarded the nervous Mayor with questions.

“But Celestia,” the Mayor said quick when he got in Celestia’s way, “Why don’t you join us for dinner first?”

Celestia gave the Major an incomprehensive expression, “Major I just said a few moments ago I had a meal before my arrival. What is your problem? Why do you refuse me the right to see this creature?”

The Major grew more and more nervous, because he knew that Celestia’s patience was running out. Then he said to distract Celestia, as a leap of faith, from wanting to see the creature, “I will tell you why, it’s very strange for royalty like yourself to arrive like now. We would really appreciate for you sit down with the town and give us some of your time. Please Celestia I’m begging you! In behalf of my village.”

Celestia was touched by this comment, “ I promise my royal subjects,” she paused for everyone’s attention, “ I promise that I will spend some time with you.” The ponies then started to cheer Celestia.

“Oh my! What a relief,” said the Major as if he had deflected a cannon ball from killing him.

“Although,” said the Princes, “I will see the creature first.”

The Major’s heart then plummeted to the ground, because he knew it was game over. “Oh no! Princess….. um …ah…..why don’t you… oh my.. no no no… don’t got their…. Noooo,” then the Major closed his eyes waiting for Celestia’s shout.

She trotted toward the center of the town where the center of attraction was, which was on a platform to elevate the so-called attraction'. She trots her way through the center, and reaches the cage. She notices the platform and starts flying towards the stairs the allows access to the cage. Celestia takes the stairs one by one, and takes a closer look towards the cage. It was smaller than what she expected it to be, but she would find out soon that there will be any no space left from it. “Well hello there,” Celestia said as she approached the cage, but she stopped shortly to admire the level of brutality the creature inside had embraced. Drazard was sitting on a layer of excrement inside while hugging his knees to his body and his face hidden inside his knees. Celestia was heartbroken by the first glimpse of the draconiquus, but more was yet to come. Celestia started to walk around the tiny cage that was big enough for a philly. She began to observe the scars on his back and arms were he was tortured brutally. Tears sprouted on Celestia’s eyes, because she couldn’t believe how un-pony like treatment the creature had received.

Drayzard began to grow curious of why the town grew so silent. He then grew the will to look up and see the "special pony" that can to see him. Drayzard was surprised by the look at the Ponys face. Drayzard could not believe the Unicorn-pegasus-pony was not laughing at him, but rather with a dumbfounded expression and tears on her eyes. Her expression reminded him of a mother staring at her poor tortured son. He felt like if the pony outside the cage actually felt sorry for him (which was a first for him since nobody ever showed him love).

“Oh my,” whispered Celestia with a knot in her throat, “What have they done to you?” She then sat right in front of Drayzard’s cage with her head bowed down to have a closer look and whispered some more painful words that seem to be squeezing the life out of her, “you poor draconiquus…*sniff*…what have they done to you?.... Tell me *sniff* what’s your name?”

Drayzard was very confused as he watched and heard how much pain she was going through. He felt something he always hoped for, but now he wanted to refuse since the world had forsaken him. His chest felt some kind of warmth that came from his chest and heated his freezing vines of hatred. He felt a feeling coming from his back; climbing from his lower back all the way to his neck. What is this feeling?..... why am I getting this feeling of wanting to hug her so bad? Drayzard thought as he started at the teary-eyed pony. 'Should I tell her my name? She seems different from the rest. Unicorn horn and pegasi wings.... That is not something would see very often. I should tell something! Although what if she is a trying to trick me, and she crushes my heart once and for all. But yet again, what if she just wants to get me the hell out of this shit hole?' he kept thinking as he saw the pony outside his cage stating to drop tears out of sadness. He then once more brought himself to tell her his name and with a soft voice that drained any hope from the world he said: "My name is Drayzard."

Then Celestias eyes widen as she finally felt a relief that the creature was still sane. She then she still whispered with same knot on her throat, “Drayzard a beautiful name…..*sniff* tell me more about yourself,” she then tried to form a smile on her face to try to give the poor creature some confidence.

Drayzard then thought some more while he stared at the broken down pony, ‘ She doesn’t look right, but more important, why does she want to know about me? Should I tell her about everything that is going on in my life? But why should I?’ before he could think some more he was interrupted by Celestia.

"Little Draconiquus... do not be scared of me, Im Princess Celestia........ Im the one who raises the sun and moon each day...*sniff*... now that you about me, want to know about you," whispered Celestia with teary eyes.

‘She raises the moon and the Sun every day? What kind of pony is she? She really wants to know about me... I should tell her something... Either she could get me out of hell, or make my life here worse than what it already is....... No! She must know the insolence that this village is, Drayzard thought deeply when he absorbed all the information that he had. Drazard then took a deep breath and said in a hopeless tone, "Well?.... where do I start?"

“Anywhere is fine kido…. Tell me about how everyone treats you here,” Celestia responded quickly with a soft voice.

“Well, everyone here is very mean to me. Everyone here does very bad things to me, and I just can’t deal with it anymore,” Drayzard said with teary eyes. “They hit me, cut me, punch me, kick me, slap me, spit on me, laugh at me, call me by many mean names, they curse at me, and everyone is always very angry with me,” continued Drayzard while he was looking at the ground and holding to the bars of the cage.

Celestia’s heart was shattered, disintegrated as she heard the poor little creature cry out all the horrible un-pony like things done to him. Celestia couldn’t speak anymore; the knot on her throat that prevented her from talking grew tighter. She couldn’t think or say anything. Celestia was emotionally killed by the horrific fate that the little Draconiquus was given. She did not know what to do; her mental state was in paranoia.

“Don’t believe him, he is trying to trick you,” a pony said trying to make the Princes believe it was all a lie

Celestia then tucked head in between her front hooves; then she stayed like that for a moment as more and more ponies started to shout things to justify their actions.

Drayzard started to realize that the mane of the white pony that sat right in front of his cage was changing colors. He then admired at how her mane blaze up into flames, but he did not feel any kind of heat being generated from them. He then saw the princes peak an eye for him, then she blinked as a sign that everything was going to be fine. Drayzard leaned back on his cage as he awaited something to happen.

"YOU INSOLENT PONIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Celestia shook the ground with her shout as she stood up and kept yelling at the skies. The ponies from the village became silent once more as they heard the fury of their princes. The sun grew in size and red colored light started emitting it as Celestia spoke to her subjects. "YOU HAVE DISSAPOINTED IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE!!!," the ground shook once more, "I SHOULD DESTROY YOU RIGHT NOW!! I SHOULD EXPEL YOU FROM THIS LAND! YOU DONT EVEN DESERVE BE CALLED PONIES!!" Celestias eyes were glowing brighter than any star in the galaxy. Her mane blazed up high brighter than any fire seen before in Equestrai and wild currents of flames stroked the ends of her hair. Celestia was levitating off the ground without help of her long strong wings.

Drayzard admired the rage that Celestia poured on to the villagers that had treated him worse than an animal. He really felt a sense of joy as he watched Celestia avenging him. He never felt joy before, not since he was born. He was finally giving an expression that he thought impossible since his situation; he started to smile. Why am I enjoying this? First off, what is this feeling? Is this what these ponies actually call joy? he paused a bit, ' She really is mad....hahahaha! Oh crap... this feeling is so good, it's like an adventure I never experienced or an object I never found.

Celestia brought the sun to normal, and her hair started to die out, and her original mane appeared from the smoke. Her eyes did not change though, they were still brighter than a candle in utter darkness.