1 year...
It's been one year since the Princess Twilight has been kidnapped and corrupted...
One year that the guards tryied to set her free and finally...
One year that she missed her friends..
Today was an day especially sad at Canterlot, it's been one year that'd the Princess of friendship has disappeared leaving behind her crown who now is grey.
And today, Celestia was going to tell it to her subjects, in a few minutes, everypony will know what happen to her
Eveypony was waiting in the castle back garden, there was all type of ponies : earth ponies, unicorns, pegasus and even some changelings, and all of them were talking and laughting.
After five more minutes, Celestia appeared in the tower accompanied by her sister, Princess Luna follow by the elements and the pillars.
The white alicorn coughed for have their attention and the speech started
"My dears ponies, hello to everyone and thanks to had the greatness to come here." she started
"Today is the day were you will know what happen to the Princess of friendship, Twilight Sparkle."
"And you are not without to know that since the pillars came back, she is gone with them and the elements to defeat the darkness"
"And the truth is..."
It's been a year, a year that I'm here and a year that nobody sees me or finds.
Yet even with the help of King Sombra and shadows, I feel ... empty
No one loves me, no one remembers me and yet ... empty
Sometimes I lie on the cold floor and close my eyes, thinking back to how I got there
"You will not remember anything"
"No !" I screamed before the only thing I could see was black
"And here unfortunately my little ponies how Twilight Sparkle was corrupted, but today I wanted to ask you if, out of pure generosity and not out of obligation, a certain pony or other creature would have information about the darkness that enclose our beloved Twilight asked Celestia with hope as she watched the crowd in front of her
Nobody says anything
She sighed until she heard some pony
"I know something." declared this person
The Sun Princess opened her eyes and searched until she saw a green hoof in the air, this hoof belonging to a certain reformed changeling named Thorax
"All right, thank you all for coming and you can go back home"
Everyone left except the insect pony who stayed
"Do you want to come to the throne room?"
"Of course Princess"
Then with that, the rest went to the throne of the two princesses
Alone. Here is how I would define myself right now. The only thing that's here with me now is the cold, hard ground with that strange gray smoke and that black, empty space like space, just without the bust of stars, constellations, the moon, and the dark blue sky.
If only to see the sky she had admired since she was a filly.
"But now it's over," she murmured to herself.
Just the mention of the night reminded her of the Moon Princess and caused extreme rage in Twilight
"They abandoned me, abandoned me and even delivered me to the darkness and they did not even try to help me!" These ponies deserve the suffering! The sorrow! The sadness! And its favorite: The fear
"They do not know what he's waiting for," she said sadly before laughing
"So you say that Chrysalis punished you by locking you in there?" asked Princess Luna
"Yes, and sometimes she locked us up with our worst nightmare," he shuddered, remembering his childhood
"Very good and how do you access it?" said Rarity
"Pfffft, but finally Rarity, it's very simple, you just have to go and provoke the king of darkness himself!" said Pinkie in a sung voice
"Scorpan?" Applejack thought
"But not his idiot filly, I'm talking about King Sombra!"
"You're crazy ?!" shouted Rainbow Dash flying away
"Oooh my, I do not even dare to think about it," Fluttershy said hiding behind his mane
"Princesses, I want to go to limbo and recover Princess Twilight" says Thorax
"Sorry Thorax but I'm afraid I want to refuse to risk the life of one of my subjects" sighed the elder alicorne
"No disrespect, Princess, do you prefer to send eleven ponies who are not even sure to pick it up? Think about it, I know the place and I learned to face my fears, do not you think I have to go?" Thorax argument
"Good but be careful and please pay attention to yourself" says the White Princess
"Thank you Princess," he said turning around and getting ready physically AND mentally
After leaving the throne room, Thorax went to his hive to inform his subjects of his temporary absence
He looked around until he saw Pharinx in the distance talking with another changeling, when he had finished, he went to his brother
"Hi Pharinx, how are you?"
"Hi brother, yes it's much better since Chrysalis is no longer there"
"I doubt, tell me you could do me a favor, I need you to inform the hive that I'm going to leave for a few days"
"Of course I'm going now," replied the blue changeling, flying to warn others
The insect king headed to his room and prepared the necessary equipment to write scrolls en route and then headed for the Everfree Forest
Twilight did not know why but she felt like something was going to happen
Her belly was hot and her head ached a little, someone or something was going to come here
Maybe to help her ? Or just kill her?
Anyway it will be necessary to take care of it
Thorax was facing the forest populated with supernatural things.
Something strange besides the weirdness was as if there was a feeling that anger in her
He decided to just ignore it thinking it was his imagination, he had never said it but since the first play but he loved Twilight and hoped she loved him too ...
It does not matter
He stepped forward and then found his way through the brambles, trees and other objects occupying the path he was crossing
Twilight recognized feeling, SOMEONE was definitely looking for him
And that smell, she looked like ...
"Thorax?" she said a little stunned by this revelation
She only noticed her a week ago but when she missed her friends, the first person who came to her mind was the insect pony.
At first she did not believe it thinking her mind was playing her but finally she realized she loved him ... a lot
Unfortunately she will never again be able to approach anyone because when she was corrupted by Sombra, he cast her a spell that when she approaches a person, immediately hates her and turns her into a real tyrant.
Just at the thought of this, she began to cry her head in her hooves, the clear green tears dripping from her eyes.
The changeling king advanced farther into the forest, as in his memories nothing had practically changed
Same trees, same creatures and especially the same monsters
He remembered the days when Chrysalis had punished him by dripping him cause from his kindness and had brought him face to a huge hungry manticore
He shuddered remembering the memory but continued on his way to save the one he loved most
He only looked at the sky to see that it was now dark but still with the Luna and the wonderful stars of Luna, so he took his sleeping bag and put it on the ground while lying in it deciding to continue his research tomorrow
"Goodnight Twilight, I love you" he murmured before falling asleep peacefully
Still lying on the floor crying, the Princess wiped her eyes and then straightened up, she did not know what that part of her had planned for Thorax and did not really want to know
"Please Sombra ... Do not hurt him too much ..." she prayed before falling asleep
"No problem, Princess ..." A voice she said before starting to laugh with all her might
