Terror in Equestria 11: Death and Destruction

After she left the dungeon, Colgate was irate. Never did she imagine that the generals that had served her for so long, well decorated generals that could have retired many, many millennia ago would turn on her the way they did. She knew that with their betrayal, that her next plans would need to be set in motion much, much sooner than she initially planned.

Before she would go to the archives, she headed up to her chambers to tap into the eye, taking Twilight with her. As she set Twilight's casket down next to her bed and began to scan the world she laughed, "Don't you miss this Twily? Don't you miss being able to spy on everypony?" She then kicked the casket and laughed, "What's that, you do?" Her laugh became more manic as she continued, "Well too bad, I'm the only pony with that ability now!"

She then began to scan the world and noticed that the royalty from Unicornia had reached the coast and were snacking on the apples that had been growing there for so long. She then began to scan other areas and noticed nothing out of the ordinary until she looked off to the southeast, towards Ridead.

She began to laugh when she noticed that Luna's airship had crashed into some houses and that there were fatalities. Colgate laughed, "Ha! That's what Galaxia and Cosmos deserve for distrusting me!" She began jumping up and down around the room and exclaimed, "Now this is a great day! Hopefully it will crush their precious little hearts!"

After a minute of celebration, Colgate grabbed Twilight's casket in her aura and continued, "And now my Dear Twilight, the time has come to resurrect you, corrupt you and make you completely and unquestionably subservient to me!"

Colgate carried her casket down into the very back of the archives, back where the Midnight Castle collection and artifacts were located. She knew that this was going to take quite some time to figure out how to do this. She also knew that the spell to resurrect Twilight into what she wanted her to be would require a vastly different spell than the one she used to resurrect Ruby.

She began to go through the collection from the very start. In those she found some of the most ancient of the dark spells but would not find anything she was looking for. As she continued to look through the more recent books, still nothing. Once she finished going through the final book she still found nothing. She threw her hooves up in the air and grunted, "Great, just great. I'm going to have to write my own magic."

Colgate was initially irritated by this but soon she figured that it would likely be for the best because it would be something that she would have complete and absolute control of. Another thing she knew was that for what she wanted to do, it may be best if she ate a substantial meal first and then did it outside where any amounts of energy discharged from it would not do any damage to the tower.

After eating a hearty meal, Colgate returned to the archives to grab the one thing that she wanted her newest creation to be bound to, the twisted mask that she found at Midnight Castle along with her sabre in the event she were to need some sort of blood sacrifice to finish it.

She took Twilight's casket along with the mask and sabre out to the same area where she fused the black diamond into herself. She stood there wondering how she was going to do this. She knew what kind of energies to put into it but it was the words that would be a challenge for her, especially given that she had never written any black magic before.

She stood there and suddenly the words came to her,

"A long time ago the dark one fell in defeat,
in this defeat her heart became meat.
In her life she had plenty of free will,
In her new form though, her free will shall be nil.

The darkness that flowed through her was great,
Yet the darkness she had sealed her fate.
What she needs is something darker still,
something that will fit her Master's bill.

The Dark Goddess she was in life,
in life she caused much strife.
A new title she shall now receive,
a title that will never deceive.

A new life she shall now own,
By her Master her path shall be shown.
No longer the Dark Goddess she shall be,
the Witch Queen is now what all will see.

The power of the Witch Queen shall be great,
Those she faces shall suffer a terrible fate.
While her power will be strong,
It is to the Goddess of Terror she shall belong.

Absolute subservience to me is a must,
For without it all will be a bust.
While her attacks will be great,
It shall always be her Master who holds her fate."

After the words came to her, something seemed right about them. In her mind, it felt like it would work. She then decided to open the casket and remove the decayed body of Twilight. The very moment she opened the casket, a horrid smell came flowing out, a smell so horrid it caused Colgate to gag. She had never smelled anything worse in her long life yet she knew that it was something she would have to put up with if she was to go through with her plan.

She levitated Twilight's remains out of the casket and sat them on the ground. She noticed that the rib cage was broken open and that brought back so many fond memories. It brought back memories of her leading the effort to defeat the two centaurs, memories of her torturing the Dark Goddess in the moments leading up to her death, memories of feasting on her heart and memories of claiming the two broken rainbows as her own.

Something then began to cross her mind, to truly pour her wickedness into what would soon become the Witch Queen, a blood sacrifice would be necessary. She grabbed her sabre, cut her chest and allowed some of her blood to drip down onto the blade. She then allowed the blood to drip from the sabre onto the skull of the remains. As she continued to bleed, she continued the process until the bleeding stopped.

She then placed the mask over the skull and readied herself to cast the spell. A black aura formed around her horn and soon she became encircled in a black orb. She pointed her horn down and released energy into the corpse and recited,

"A long time ago the dark one fell in defeat,
in this defeat her heart became meat.
In her life she had plenty of free will,
In her now form though, her free will shall be nil.

The darkness that flowed through her was great,
Yet the darkness she had sealed her fate.
What she needs is something darker still,
something that will fit her Master's bill.

The Dark Goddess she was in life,
in life she caused much strife.
A new title she shall now receive,
a title that will never deceive.

A new life she shall now own,
By her Master her path shall be shown.
No longer the Dark Goddess she shall be,
the Witch Queen is now what all will see.

The power of the Witch Queen shall be great,
Those she faces shall suffer a terrible fate.
While her power will be strong,
It is to the Goddess of Terror she shall belong.

Absolute subservience to me is a must,
For without it all will be a bust.
While her attacks will be great,
It shall always be her Master who holds her fate."

Once she recited the spell, the remains of Twilight began to levitate and became encircled in a dark lavender orb, similar to the black one that encircled Colgate. Inside the orb a new being was being born, not one of a true flesh and blood pony but one of evil, the same evil Colgate had poured into her.

When the orb finally popped, down floated what appeared to be an Alicorn, an Alicorn wearing a mask that appeared as a pony with a distorted face. Colgate began to inspect the figure and would be pleased when she saw the cutie mark. It was what Twilight's was yet it had blood dripping from it. What made Colgate the happiest though is that it was inside a much larger cutie mark, her cutie mark.

In the eyes of Colgate, this was a success. She believed that this was a sign that her creation would be unquestionably loyal to her but she wanted to make sure. She turned to the figure and asked, "Who are you?"

In a raspy voice the figure replied, "I am the Witch Queen of Marentreal."

Colgate asked, "And whom do you serve?"

The Witch Queen hissed, "I serve Colgate, the Goddess of Terror and no other."

Colgate smiled, "Good, now follow me."

Colgate led her new creation into the dungeon where she would be introduced to her prisoners. When they saw her they all shrieked in terror at what they saw. While they knew that what stood by Colgate's side was supposed to be Twilight, they knew it wasn't. Colgate smiled at the five and said, "Ladies, let me be the first to introduce you to who you shall all be bound, the Witch Queen of Marentreal."

The Witch Queen approached the five and gave them a snarl. Rainbow was the first to ask, "Wait a minute, is that Twilight?"

Colgate laughed, "Used to be and soon you all shall become like her. Yes you will not be as powerful but still, you will serve much more use to this world than you do now."

Rainbow gasped, "No, we will not serve more use, all we will do is be instruments of yours to destroy it!"

Colgate turned to the Witch Queen and ordered, "While a great amount of terror you shall unleash later, for now your job is to watch them all."

The Witch Queen hissed, "Yes Master."

Colgate turned the other way and left the dungeon. She felt as though the past few days were successful beyond her wildest dreams. Not only had she created the lead Witch Pony that would be only second to her in power, but one that would lead an attack on the place that Twilight once called home.