Love Turns Evil

Cadence was happy and feeling relief. Shining had found the start of her daughter’s path. Hopefully he would call back with the news of finding something else…

Shining and the guards searched the whole area finding Flurry’s necklace and her bracelet. Shining knew what his daughter was doing. She was following what he had told her to do. She always wore a lot of jewellery and it all had a number on it.

It was the royal family code. All the Jewels and gold the Princesses wore and the Princes all had a 6 digit number on them so if anyone ever tried to sell it jewellers would know it was stolen. The guards all knew the number as well. The border patrol checkpoints also had the number, they were require to look at each piece of highly priced jewellery if some of the royal Jewels was uncounted for. So Shining had told Flurry if something ever happened to drop a piece to show people you was there and it was working. The guy probably hadn’t realised that she was missing some of her Jewels because they had found a lot. A man then came into view and shining tackled him to the ground. He fit the man they were looking for… A normal Anthro. Searching his pockets Shining found the matching earring to Flurry’s dropped one he must have been searching for it, hoping to find it before the guards did. Realising this he cuffed the man and ordered.
“Follow his direction and see if Flurry is there!!” The man underneath Shining laughed. This angered Shining. “Why are you laughing and WHERE IS MY DAUGHTER!”

“Oh your Majesty, did I take your precious little princess?” He said in mocking tone as he smiled up at Shining.

“Where is she??” Shining threatened with his fists balled ready to knock the smile off of this fuckers face.

“She is happy, now she is free away from you.” He mocked as the guards came back holding what was left of Flurry’s winter school dress. He got up giving the man to a guard as he looked over his daughter’s clothes.

“She’s unclothed! What have you done to my daughter?!” Shining shouted, shaking the man to his core as he clearly looked away to avoid Shining’s gaze.

“There was nothing else a part from this your Majesty.” The guard pulled out a knife covered in blood from behind his back. The dress was cut and ripped. Implying there was a struggle; Shining turned the dress inside out and saw a blood stain on a petty coat inside the dress. 4 guards had to actively grab Shining Armor as he dropped the dress and lunged for the man cuffed in front of him. 2 guards escorted the man back to the palace while the captain and good friend of Shining’s calmed him down.

“Shining, she could still be around here but now we need to hurry as she could be badly injured…” Shining started to break down, tears welling in his eyes as he spoke.

“That man just said that ‘Flurry is happy, now she’s away from you’ What if she’s dead!”

“Don’t give up hope… We will find her! Come on!” With that Shining wiped his eyes with new hope and support from his friend, they continued searching.

After searching and searching all buildings and warehouses. Shining feeling deflated walked out, off the empires crystal path and on to the snow. Taking a second to breath and focus his friend came up and gave him some reassuring words.

“We are close I can feel it. We will find her…”

Shining just nodded in agreement as the two hugged… as Shining went to pull away he looked up and froze… His friend let go of Shining as he looked at Shining he realised something was wrong turning around he saw her…

Princess Flurry Heart was naked and laying in the snow. After the shock had worn off Shining screamed Flurry’s name as he rushed over to her body. Frozen from the Icey snow, her body on full display for the entire world to see. All the dignity of a princess gone, all the dignity of an Athro was gone. She was represented as nothing just a corpse dumbed to freeze in the snow. Shining removed the rope from her mouth and around her neck and wrists that was tied to the back of the warehouse. No way of untying herself. No way to call for help. Naked in the frozen icy snow with a very bad knife wound to her stomach. She would have died in pain. If it had been summer she would have survived another 30 minutes to an hour. The cold had killed her quicker than the knife wound. It would have meant more pain but they could have saved her.

Shining didn’t move the guards came rushing in when they heard the scream of the King and was hit with the image of his dead daughter. Some guards tried to get Shining to move away from Flurry but he wouldn’t. He just said. “Go and get Queen Cadence.”

Cadence had arrived to see shining over a body. No guard had told her why Shining wanted her because they didn’t want to tell her and face her anger and crying in front of the empire. The guards stayed far enough away to allow the couple there space. Most had seen how they acted when the Prince was born dead. They knew to keep there distance. It was understandable that they would be upset for a lot longer than a year. It was a year and a few months when the couple had noticeably not talked about it much. But now they all knew it was going to be hard for the King and Queen.

Now they had lost their 7th conceived child and she was only 10 years of age. They had only brought 1 child successfully into the world. All the others had died in some way but the couple loved them all. That was something most didn’t know, in the private gardens of the King and queen on a wall was 5 plaques and in front of the wall was 1 grave.
Each plaque read the same… the only difference was the names

‘name of child
Loved dearly and never forgotten
love
Mommy Queen Cadence
Daddy King Shining Armor’

The plaques names were as followed…
Prince Triumph (3 ½ months unborn)
Princess Peaceful (6 ¾ months unborn)
Princess Hopeful (7 months unborn)
Prince Snow (5 ½ months unborn)
Prince Moon light (7 ½ months unborn)
The grave was similar to the plagues but a bit different it read-
‘Prince Brave
Loved and never forgotten
Cared for but never met
Love
Mommy Queen Cadence
Daddy King Shining Armor’

And now they would have to burry another child.
Cadence couldn’t hold it in so she cried the whole way back to the palace the couple so upset went straight to their bed chambers and didn’t come out until morning… Their captain carefully entered their bed chambers asking if he could lift the order. The couple nodded and the captain left.
The couple didn’t even go for dinner. A maid had cautiously knocked and asked if the couple was hungry. Shining had answered and had told them there orders and she knocked again to give them their small meals. The couple shared 2 daisy and daffodil sandwiches each and a whole chocolate cake with ice cream. The couple didn’t come out for breakfast and the maid gave Shining the normal breakfasts to them. A bowl of cereal for the Queen and 8 slices of brown bread toasted with butter and jam for the King.
The couple gave a note to the captain telling him to notify the empire that they would be closing off the palace from visitors for the next 5 days due to the death of their daughter. They didn’t write death they just wrote due to daughter. The captain understood.

Shining was able to come out the night after but Cadence only left the royal bedchambers to go and walk in her and Shining’s private garden. 4 days after Flurry’s death the couple went to sit on the grass besides the wall and talked about the fun times with flurry and what they wanted for her grave. The other days they had avoided the wall at all costs and the subject of Flurry at all costs.