The Everfree Chronicles: Altered Chances

Play this song for this chapter, it sorta fits well into it.

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Canterlot Archives, Black Vault, Dawn

"SPREAD OUT! We can not allow this traitor to the throne to escape with anything of value inside of this vault! Every artifact in this room is priceless beyond comprehension! If this traitor was allowed to escape with any of them Celestia knows what could possibly happen to Equestria and beyond! So if you see him, beat him within every inch of his unholy life but leave him alive so he can be properly executed! The other two that escaped our reach are the same ones that were executed a week ago but came back to life! Do not let this one escape!"

"Yes sir!" all of the 20 royal guards said at once, their voice of approval of their captain's plan was overwhelming to the weak but to a pony that defied death twice, defied two royal princesses, and also gave lord of Tartarus an invisible middle finger if he had digits.

'Oh this is going to be so much fun!'

As the guards slowly spread out into the vault's interior, the chirping of the lunar birds died down as they phased out of existence at the presence of the guards slowly moved into their home, the noise of the crickets also died down as they winked out of the universe by the invading guards physical form, only to leave behind the echos of their iron-clad hooves on the stone floor and the shuffling of their armor.

The movement of the guards has also awakened my magic strings that I left behind, and with each step closer the guards make towards me, all the artifacts in the room slowly move out of their way to move closer to the walls of the edges of the vault, making room for the end.

The utter silence in the vault was unnerving to the guards as they slowly fanned out to search for me, and as a few walked by a large statue of an Ursa Major, I made a clicking noise with my hooves on the cold stone floor to get there attention, alerting the guards to come to the 'ponyquin' wearing Nightmare Moon's Royal Armor, only for them to gaze at it in shock and awe as all of the guards have never even seen a better Nightmare Moon replica, only for them to rear back in terror as the ponyquin moved ever slightly, the trap has been set.

"Sir I think we found something! The statue that is holding Nightmare Moon's armor slightly twitched!" one of the guards, Iron Hide said while holding his shield spell up against anything that the statue might use against him, or his fellow guards.

"Alright, all guards form up on me and keep an eye on that statue! Do not let it out of your sights and for Celestia's sake do not let this thing escape!" Shining armor shouted to the rest of the 15 guards that are not near the statue, three of the guards currently placing bets that they will all be killed when they get near me, another saying that they will all be turned into zombie ponies and be under my hoof of obedience. These ponies are so foolish that I will even do such a thing, zombies last only for so long before decaying away into nothing but bones, all life is precious but it is only precious if they have something worth fighting for, as for these guards, they have something worth fighting for but they are fighting for the wrong side for the right reasons, time for me to change their minds, and their hearts.

As they slowly got closer to me, a few of them drew their spears and pointed them in my direction, others raised whatever weapons they had or whatever spells they have prepared as their horns glowed an array of lights. All of them preparing for the worst.

'Come on...just a little closer...'

Just as they come up the first set of steps to my resting place, they immediately fan out around me, thinking that if I am surrounded by spears and magic that I will give up and go peacefully with them, well they are mistaken that I will go quietly into the night. One of the guards, a unicorn with a turquoise coat, lavender/blue mane and tail, and her cutie mark was a tower shield with the medical symbol as its emblem. A combat medic perhaps or maybe just somepony that heals others when they are in battle...she may have a use...

"Should we poke it to make sure it is actually a ponyquin or just stab it to make sure that if it was alive that it is no longer breathing? Just a thought since we might be falling into a trap?" said the mare, apparently she is called Anesthesia, a name that probably means she will put me down under if she manages to land a spell on me...might be a problem, but of course a problem that can be solved.

The trap has been triggered.

The moment the guards and Shining Armor step onto the last set of steps leading up to my resting place I use what little magic I can use without alerting the guards that the ponyquin was actually me, and what small amounts of magic that I can possibly use was actually worth the risk of getting caught. As one of the guards slowly prods my flank with a spear, the shaft of the spear slowly begins to corrode and melt away as he prods my left flank, noting that it was softer than what it should be before shouting that it was me.

The trap has been sprung!

In the moment of the guard backing up and shouting to the rest my eyes open up revealing its true colors of turquoise tinted red and amber shades, my eyes looking right at Anesthesia, and looking past her, Shining Armor. What happened next was literally a battle of life and death.

"Oh holy shit! Kill it! Kill it! Kill it with fire! Just fucking kill it!" shouted the guard that prodded me as his entire spear that was in his hooves exploded everywhere sending shrapnel of wooden splinters and molten metal globs onto nearby guards, sending them in mass confusion and hysteria.

For Anesthesia it was a nightmare, her comrades were screaming in pain from the splinters lodging into their coats and the molten metal giving them third degree burns and melting part of their armor from the intense heat.

For Shining Armor it was an ambush in which he ordered the guards to back away from me as I slowly began to move from the podium, my legs cracking from being stiff for only thirty minutes, the remaining guards following his command block off the only exit I had, but not the only entrance.

As I gaze at my enemies I slowly began with a low chuckle, growing louder in sound and intensity until finally it turns into a full-blown insane cackle as the room begins to shudder in fear of my insanity and fear for its own existence. My cackle comes to an end as I began to speak with my dual voice of my own and Nightmare Moon's.

"Hello my royal subjects, it has been far to long since I had any real fun since my last little battle I had with the Elements of Harmony and those pitiful mares! I bet you all think you can best me and that you will bring me to justice by the sword? But you are incorrect, you all shall die by my hooves and I will paint my red room back at the palace with your blood to make it even more red and I shall line your intestines all over the walls as decorations! Your bodies will make a nice ponyquin for my new royal attire and maybe your cutie-marks will make lovely napkins!"

"Hello my royal subjects, it has been far to long since I had any real fun since my last little battle I had with the Elements of Harmony and those pitiful mares! I bet you all think you can best me and that you will bring me to justice by the sword? But you are incorrect, you all shall die by my hooves and I will paint my red room back at the palace with your blood to make it even more red and I shall line your intestines all over the walls as decorations! Your bodies will make a nice ponyquin for my new royal attire and maybe your cutie-marks will make lovely napkins!"

The sudden outburst was enough to send a single guard to charge at me at full speed with a spear and shield raised up, thinking he can end this with reckless fear I respond by grabbing both spear and shield from his grip with my magic and to add insult to injury I hit him over the head with his shield to knock him off balance and tumble to my hooves before punting him with his spear like a golf ball. And just to be a jerk I yell out, "FORE!" the exact magical strength I put into that whack was enough to send him end over end into the rest of guards knocking down five of them, and as they scramble to get back onto their hooves, the guard that I punted stood up for only 10 seconds before his spear came back to him, but only to end his life as the tip of it impaled him in the throat as he gurgles up his blood, spewing it everywhere onto the cold floor as it freezes over upon touching it. The guard hastily tries to dislodge the lethal spear from his neck only to go into shock and die with a glazed over look in his eye, an image in his eyes was me, staring at right him with sadistic glee.

"Anypony else wants to play hero?"

"Anypony else wants to play hero?"

At once the five guards that I bowled over with the now deceased guard look at me then at the dead, then finally back to me, which in the time they were looking at me, I created two swords, both made of arcane energy, one sword was a basic dual-edged long blade made of silver/blue metal with my cutie-mark made onto the hilt, the other blade was none other than Nightmare Moon's sword, a large single-edged sword, a blade that was three feet long, serrated, and at each foot was a spike that extended slightly out of the blade to act as a sword-breaker.as the guards reform back into their staggered line I lick my blades and stare into the eyes of the guards who are in my way, my eyes piercing through them as if I was looking into their souls.

"So its treason than against your new king."

"So its treason than against your new queen."

As the guards slowly advanced up to me I start to laugh at their show of force, slowly my laughter turned into a low cackle until finally reaching the peak of insanity as it echoes throughout the vault, causing the room to vibrant and rumble under our voice. The guards were visibly shaken by my insane cackle but what really drove it home was the fact that I was going to enjoy killing them all.

After my cackle the guards all charged forward throwing their spears at me while shooting bolts of lightning at me while I stood still and took it all, the spears breaking upon hitting my armor and the bolts of lightning exploding upon contact and scattering traces of lightning everywhere, metal fragments clanging onto the floor and bouncing off the guards armor. Staring at them with eyes filled with unparalleled rage and insanity I slowly advance towards them as tendrils of pure darkness sprout out of the open parts of the armor and latch onto the five guards that tried to make their stand against the true king and queen of Equestria and failed.

Looking into the eyes of the guards I can see that they are all afraid of what is about to happen to them, their worst fears since joining the guards is about to happen. Dying by the hoof of another.

"You five have fought valiantly for your princesses...but for nothing you have fought for. You all fight the coming darkness that will embrace Equestria with its tender loving cold embrace, one that will bask in its glow of the moon, and yet you resist us...why? Do you desire to be slain by me or are you fighting out against the darkness because you fear what you do not understand...either way your lives are forfeit."

Starting with the first guard on my left, a deep emerald green coat with sandy mane and tail and red eyes, as I brought him close to my face he spat at me with malice that we did not deserve so he was the first to fall of the group of five. Removing all but one black tendril from his body we raised him above the floor and brought his body down upon the ground, and raised him up again only to slam him down, repeating the process numerous times until his body was broken and twisted, his mouth hanging open a bit as he tried to plea for mercy, mercy that he will not receive. Raising my sword I swung with only a portion of my strength as I cleave him in two below the rib-cage as his body starts to spasm out of control within my grasp, his voice calling out to his mother to end the pain as I swing my sword again to cut off his front-legs. His body now hanging limply within my grasp as he looks at me with his half-glazed eyes, his eyes begging for mercy, the same mercy that I was denied when I was only seven years old, but I will grant him mercy as I ripped out all of his organs that was still inside of his rib-cage. Immediately his eyes rolled over as his heart sat there beating on the ground until I crushed it under my metal-clad hoof as I look at the other four guards who were all pissing themselves out of fear for their own lives.

"Who is next?" I said while baring my fangs at them as each and every guard in the room now stare at me with hate and malice that would normally kill a regular pony, but I am no regular pony, not anymore.

The second guard brought to my face spits blood onto my face as he was close enough to try and bite me but I push him back and than with an idea so simple that came to my mind I just had to do it. Grinning ear to ear I set him down onto the floor as I splay out his legs, than with a swing of my sword I remove each limb until he is nothing more than a body with a head, his screams of pain and misery is like music to my ears as his screams slowly die down and turn into whimpers as I bring the other sword down upon him, cutting him cleanly in half the long ways, from muzzle to tail he falls in half onto the floor now slick with gore and blood.

Turning my gaze to the other three I smile evilly as I saunter over to them and as I do so they all flinch and try to wiggle their way out from my grasps, only making it worse as I tighten it around their bodies, slowly crushing their armor and their bones. Two of them stop as they feel the pressure increasing but one keeps thrashing and twisting, trying to break free which only made it worse on him as the sounds of metal bending, screeching under the extreme stress I am placing upon it until finally the sounds of bones breaking can be heard past the armor. The screams of pain came next as he felt his body being crushed by his movements, unable to stop thrashing the sounds of bones shattering and snapping from the now metal coffin that he is wearing now seals his fate as slowly squeeze the life out of him. The crushing grip of the tendril increases even after his brash movements have ceased, as I kept the pressure against him as blood starts to seep out from his mouth and the gaps of his armor until finally the loud snap of his spine can be heard as he goes limp within my grasp, sighing sadly that his torture was over to quickly but laughing as I threw his crippled body aside as he hit the side of a pillar, the partial scream of pain was a verbal bliss to my senses until I drew his sword against him and stabbed him in the heart to end it. The other 15 guards in the room just glare at me as I was standing there toying with their friends.

It was wonderful...

The other two that was left from the original five I decided to sit back and enjoy it this time. Letting my voice rumble out to meet them I said with a clear and yet venom filled tone, "Now that their are only two of you left, it is time to play a lovely game of 'Sole Survivor'. The rules of the game are simple. Kill the other pony before they kill you. If you do not wish to play than speak now so I can just gut you where you hang and watch your blood and organs fall down." after my little speech I dropped both of them and set up a wall of black flames separating them from the rest of the guards and throwing a two swords at the both of them and letting them decide their fate.

Watching the two for only two minutes until finally they both dove for their weapon and started to swing at each other in reckless fury and desperation as I sat on my haunches and laughing as the two swung at each other for survival, not knowing that whoever lives will be called a traitor by their own kin and I will simply teleport them to their new home. The loud clanging of metal-on-metal was brilliant and sharp as the two combatants charged, sliced, slashed and stabbed at each other to live and fight another day but knowing that I might kill them means they won't get that chance. After nearly ten minutes of the two fighting, it ended when the second guard, an earth pony mare, Rosary Mason, threw her sword at the other guard and when he was distracted, took that split second to crash into him and stomp repeatedly on his head with her hooves until his head popped like a grape within his helmet. The sickening crushing sound was heard above the audible gasps from the other 15 guards and Shining Armor as they watched the two guards fight each other and watched one stomp the others head into oblivion and without even looking back.

What came next was a blood bath for the guards.

As soon as she saw what she has done and looked to see the guards looking at her than back to Shining Armor, immediately they all charged forward except for the two medic mares that are standing near Shining, trying to provide any manner of healing spells to the guards but the injuries that they were receiving was beyond their capabilities to to heal or patch up within seconds.Rosary was busy trying to comprehend what happened until she took a spear into the side of her body, sending her into the floor and before she was killed by a sword to the throat I grabbed her with my tendrils and shoved her behind me and casted a barrier spell on her along with a lockdown spell to prevent her from escaping the shield I placed upon her. Staring back at the guards they now realized that they were fooled by me and that I was waiting for them to come closer and within my reach of my tendrils and magic glyphs that are scattered all over the vault floor.

Immediately after they noticed that they were being grabbed by my tendrils those that were still free from my grasp started to back up until Shining Armor charged past the glyphs and slammed right into my chest, knocking my flank down and making me roll over until my shadow wings popped open and stopped me in mid-roll, landing back on my hooves I charge back at Shining with both blades poised to strike as he brought his own sword up to block the strike. As the two of us strike at each other and our blades scraping by each other sending sparks and metal shards from his sword until finally striking hard enough his sword exploded and the concussive force was enough to knock him out. His limp body hitting the floor was a sign for the remaining guards to make their final stand and attack full force with all that are left, a move that costed them their lives and their bodies.

As the guards all charged at me with their spears poised to be thrown and their swords at the ready they all fell into line and formed a seemingly impenetrable line, only for it to be broken down in seconds as they step near the magic glyphs I laid down and get caught by the black tendrils that were sprouting out of the darkness of the room, and at my command the screams of the guards began a sweet symphony of cries of pain and screams of agony and with a wave of my hoof I directed this orchestra of ponies and cursed black magic. Waving my hooves around like a mad man I began to twist and turn the glyphs and tendrils to my will making them all tighten and squeeze the guards as their cries of pain grew louder and with a slight twitch of my hooves I gave them slack to have a temporary respite and as quickly as that recovery came I threw all of them on the stone floor hard enough crack their armor and any limbs that hit the floor first.

"So...all of you think you can stop me if you all just stand together. Do you really think that unity you all stand a chance against me? Your life is fleeting and your hopes of living are gone with the wind of despair." they all looked up at me with fear and hate in their bloodshot and teary eyes not knowing their fate as I slowly trotted up them, glaring down at them like the pathetic insects that they are. "My most foolhardy subjects, it saddens me to say that you all have failed your duty to Equestria by dying by Our hooves but your actions can be redeemed to Our eyes if you choose to join us, by joining us you spare your pitiful lives and the lives of your family as they will be watched over and protected by Us, as your duties to Equestria will be shifted over to the Everfree. If you think you can stop me than please get up so we can keep playing our little game, but if you know that you can defeat me than stay on the floor."

Ten guards slowly got up off their injured and broken hooves as they painfully got to combat stances and gave me leers of hate and disgust as the five on the floor just gave me eyes of anger and wrath that I have only seen on fouls that have lost their candy to a schoolyard bully. Those stares brought a smile to my face as I brought my swords to bear on the ponies that were still on the floor until my horn started to glow as it surrounds the ten guards and brought them over to me, each one giving me a confused and yet frightened look. Looking back at the five on the floor I saw that they were deceived and started to get off the floor to charge and skewer me on their swords but as soon as they all took a single step forward I bound them all in infernal black chains, as they try to shake the chains off of their legs the darkness slowly started churning and shifting around me until it spat out a beast of my past, the manticore that I killed.

"Hello Avreix...welcome back to the realm of the living...Come. Get your prey. They are waiting for you over their. Helpless prey that have been tenderized and are ready for consumption." I said while point over at the helpless guards that are now resorting to slashing at the chains hoping that their swords can chip the metal long enough to cause it to strain under pressure and snap, but their efforts are to no avail as each strike they make only brings them closer to their deaths. The shouts of those guards started to bounce off the walls as they tried to plead for their lives, pleading to spare them and pledging their allegiance to me. Those words fell on the ears of their former comrades and onto the ears of the shadow beast that is now sauntering over to his first meal in weeks.

"Oh Celestia...please....oh please spare us!" "Please! We will do anything for you! Please just spare us!" "Nightshade please! We are only following orders! We have nothing against you!" "I hope you burn in Tartarus for this!"

"Your words fall in deaf ears plebeians, as all your words will fall upon except your screams of pain and agony will linger on forevermore into the realm of Dusk and Dawn and the lands of the Void! Face your deaths will pride and courage you cowards! You still have your swords and your magic to fight this beast! Prove to me that you should be spared of your act of thinking that you can best Us and you will be spare of a grim demise!"

With those words ringing in their ears they all looked at the beast that was slowly approaching them from the front and gripped their swords and steeled themselves for a fight with a beast that is now nothing more than bones held together by dark magic and shadows, they all saw this beast and swallowed what little courage and honor they had left and waited for the end to come for them. As soon as Avreix came within striking distance the sounds of more beasts crawling out of the shadows slowly came to existence as more shadow manticores and timber wolves started to rise from the floor, each one pitch black with eyes red as the smoldering flames of Tartarus itself.

"Did you really think that I will allow you traitors to join me? You five all thought you can easily slay me and with your arrogance laid low and allowed these ten to be taken away hoping that they would have died and you be spared, but I worded it just right to the point where if you had stood up against me you still have the strength in your hearts to obey me, your princesses have forsaken you all and now you five shall pay for your failure with your lives! Beasts! It's feeding time!" with that shout the packs of shadow wolves and manticores moved onto their prey.

A guard was grabbed by two manticores as they fought over their tasty meal, hoping to get the largest chunk of pony flesh as he was torn in half by the pairs of claws gripping into his coat and leaving bloody trails leading away from the chains as screams of agony and pain filled the air until he breathed his last and died knowing that he has failed his county. The next guard to die was fighting with abandoned honor and swung at everything that moved even if it was the upper half of a guard being dragged away, his wild swings only earned him a few seconds of life before four wolves saw their chance and all jumped onto him as his blade was recovering from a wide slash, he was torn apart in seconds as the wolves fought over the juicy pieces of pony meat. Next to give their soul to the void was a mare that was trying to use magic to teleport away to safety but instead had her horn bitten off by a small hydra as the other four heads bit into her body tearing chunks off along with pieces of her armor in which they swallowed whole until they finally started to tear at her organs, she only lasted a minute till her heart was ripped in half and was eaten by two heads of the young hydra. The other two guards that were left were back to back to each other as they stabbed and slashed at the beasts that have killed their friends and ate their corpses as the last survivors watched in horror and anger that they were helpless to save them. They just looked at each other and before they started to keep swinging at the enemy one of them had their lower jaw ripped off by the stinger of a manticore while the other had his eye blown out by the other manticore's tail, going through his skull and coming out the other eye, both dying near instantaneously as their bodies were torn apart.

"Fools...now." turning my back to the shadows feasting on their lifeless bodies "You two mares...you both cowardly stayed back while the others fought and died to keep everypony safe from me, but you two. You both just stood their scared for your lives, therefore I have no use for you..." as soon as I began to trail off the beasts turned their heads to the pair, both of them holding each other in an embrace that they prayed that would protect them from evil. "P...p...please...just...s..s..spare us....." "I don't wanna die...I don't wanna die...I don't wanna die!" Music to my ears. I grinned at them as I waved my hoof at the beasts who started to advance onto the pair until they slowly disappeared into the Void and leave behind puddles of blood, chunks of flesh and bones.

"Your words have swayed me...you two shall be spared...at a price....and I know of what you two are capable of doing...so be expected to carry out those tasks to the letter and if you can do those than you shall be spared." I smiled widely at them, the smile that was filled with dagger pointed fangs and teeth that scared the pair even more until I finally brought them over with my magic, encasing them in a bubble and placed them alongside with the other eleven ponies that gave in to my demands. "Now, that you thirteen are now with me, I shall send you away to my palace in the Everfree, but for Captain Shining Armor...I have a surprise for him...he..he he...he he he he...ha ha ha ha...ha ha ha Ha Ha Ha HA HA HA HA HA!" my laughter filled the vault as my horn started to glow a miasma of colors varying from my silver to Nightmare Moon's dark purple and every shade of both as all thirteen teleported away from the vault and into my home.

As they disappear from the vault the tall tell signs of moaning can be heard from within the center of the room, the moaning of a pony that had just had his his body shocked and was on the verge of falling down with what little strength he had left.

"Ready for your date Shining Armor? We wouldn't want to see you away from your duties...so...I will leave you with a little gift from me to you...you see...your little sister Twilight Sparkle...she is...such a lovely mare." I said while slowly circling his crumpled form, his attempts of getting onto his hooves to fight me are dashed as I kick out his legs beneath him forcing him back onto the ground. "Your little sister is such a grown mare...she has the beauty that can catch any stallion or mare of her choosing...she can easily get whatever she wanted...if she only strives to it and yet she squanders her gift of beauty for knowledge." as I kept speaking he just glared at me with each passing word about her sister and of the things I was describing her as, "Dear little Twilight Sparkle...she was such a lovely mare that she is...I was watching her when she came to Ponyville all those days ago...I sensed that she was our dearest Solar Tyrant Celestia's top student, and as she was her student I was Nightmare Moon's student. Complete opposites of each other and yet drawn to one another..." with each circle around Shining he slowly began to feel weak and tired, his energy slowly training from him. "Your sister is weak and pitiful...she has no friends to call her own until they forced their ways into her life and made her into their friends. If it was not for those five mares the night would have been eternal and Nightmare Moon would have became Queen of Equestria! As she should rightfully be so and yet they bested her with those Tartarus damned Elements of Harmony!" my rage started to flare as I stomped on his tail and lashed out at him with the blunt part of my sword, "But it does not matter...soon...the Everfree will be true to its word and every corner of Equestria will be free from the tyrant and her little sister's weakness! Soon all of Equestria will bask in the loving glow of the moon and every single pony will love Nightmare Moon as they should have a thousand years ago! But for now...we must return to our home...but for you...I have plans for you...now..." as I was talking I pulled out a very large carrot out of a saddlebag that I had prepared for this occasion, "You are only going to hate me for doing this but, I am sure that mare you are dating will think twice before asking you out again....now...sleep."

"No...I..I must be strong...for Twilly...for Princess Celestia...for Equestria..." Shining's eyes start to falter as the sleep spell starts to take effect on him, making his response slow and slightly sluggish.

"No. You will not stay strong, in fact you will stay weak until we face each other again, and by than I will have an army with me to take Canterlot and smack it out of their little hooves. But for now....SLEEP!" and with that his will finally caves in as he falls asleep into a magic induced comatose state.

"Hehehehehe....perfect!" I said as I moved over to his rear and lift his hind legs up, moving his tail out of the way, I smirk evilly as I levitate the carrot over to me as I cover it in a simple water spell to get it wet. "Think of this...as a parting gift, and revenge on Celestia's behalf. And I know you will enjoy this plenty." I quickly shoved the carrot up his ass and with enough force that he his legs buckled and fell over, quickly hiding the deed by moving his tail back where it was and for the next step of my twisted revenge I cover his body in poison joke leaves and sticky tree sap, grinning one last time before pulling out my bag and going over to the artifacts that line the walls of the vault I began to pillage and plunder away taking what I want and taking what I know of, occasionally laughing at Shining Armor as he rolls around in the sap and poison joke.

Finishing my plunder of Equestrian Royalty treasure I step over to the vault door and slowly pushed it open and found that I was surrounded by Celestia's elite guard and Celestia herself.

"Did you miss me cutie?"

"Dear sweet sister...I missed you, but did you miss me?"

Our response was a barrage of spears being thrusted at us as it just phases through us as it painlessly does nothing to our incorporeal form.

"By the authority embodied within me, you two are to be banished to the moon for the rest of your days for actions against Equestria and her people...any last words Phantom and Nightshade."

As I stare at her I begin to laugh as she calls Nightmare Noon a phantom, she has no idea that she is still alive.

"Yea I got a few things to stay to you, you royal pain in my flank. Why won't you just take that large shiny crown of yours, turn around, lift that pretty tail of yours, and shove that so far up your tail hole that you can taste the metal on your tongue!" with that rude remark she blasted a bolt of arcane energy at us only for it to miss entirely as we stay in our ghost form. "Surprised Celestia? We are in the realm of the Twilight Skies. You can not harm us..and we can't harm you...but we can most certainly harm your guards!" and with that I pulled out my two swords and cut through the first three guards in front of me as I bolt for the closed window and smash through it to take to the skies with my new wings and fly away to the Everfree Forest.

"Nightshade...when we return to the palace...can...can you sing me a lullaby to me?" said my queen in her sweetest form of innocence. Her innocence that I can not say no to because she is my queen and her lover, a lover that will never do anything to sadden her.

"Yes my sweet Moon...how about the lullaby I stole from Celestia's diary?"

"You are the best Nightshade...my gleaming Nightshade..."

"My lovely Moon....what is the music of life?"

"The music of silence dear Poison, a music that we will play at Celestia's funeral when she lies dead by our hooves."

And what a glorious funeral that will be...