An arbitrary victim

by VanessaMagnifier

Rating: everyone
Tags: King Sombra, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Sad
Length: 1487

King Sombra chooses his first victim to gain power again.

King Sombra somehow putted his body back together, but he's still very weak. To gain power again, he searches a victim to torture it and become stronger again. He decides to torture a red pegasus with big wings that's all alone. But Sombra doesn't know who he's dealing with.

Published 2019-04-01 04:00:01 UTC
Last updated 2019-04-01 04:00:01 UTC

Biting cold

The night begins in Equestria. René finishes his video for his youtube channel "TheTalkingPegasus". René trembles. The temperature of his room begins to drop. René stand up and walks towards his heater. He sets the temperature from his heater higher, but it doesn't work.

René trembles constantly and his breath can be seen. “What's causing this? I have to get out of here!“ René says and runs towards his door, but the floor begins to freeze and René slithers against the door. After a few moments, René tries to stand up again and opens the door. But the door was freezed too! René looks seeking help to his window, but this was also frozen. “Am I going do...die?“ says René hopeless and lays down. He closes his eyes and think of his friends, subscribers and families. Ponies who loved him and will wonder where he is. René wished he could say his loved ones goodbye, but his computer was frozen too.

It began to snow and René starts crying. “If I only know what's causing this. This can't be true! It just can't snow in a room! I haven't brough any clouds from outside! Also it's spring. Cloudsdale doesn't even have snow clouds now! At the earliest in two month. Maybe I'm just halluzinating. Or maybe.....I'm losing my mind.“ René thought and thought, but couldn't find a reason for this. The cold starts to hurting. It feels like the cold's biting him. René stands up and says “I will not surrender without a fight!“ René runs towards his window and tries to jump throw it. But he couldn't break it. René falls to the ground and holds his shoulder and stretches his wing because of pain. René wanted to try again, but the pain was too strong and holds René on the ground. René closes slowly his eyes.

At the wrong time in the wrong place

Renés opens his eyes quick after he heard a familiar voice. René looks up and see's King Sombra. King Sombra looks down to René with an evil grin, showing his teeth. “You're behind all of this! Why are you doing this! I did no wrong to you!“ says René and looks into Sombra's eyes.

Sombra laughs and answers “I need a victim to gain enough power to conquer the Crystal Empire. You were just at the wrong time in the wrong place. Well, for me, you were at the right time in the right place.“

René pants out of pain, but starts to smile confident. “Why do you think it will be different this time? You will never be able to destroy the crystal heart, no matter how long you're torturing me! Even a baby could destroy the crystal heart! You can't even scratch it!“ René laughs.

King Sombra looks unimpressed down to René “You really think so?“ King Sombra grins evil, stands on his back hooves and stamps his front hooves down to René's hurt wing. René screams out of pain and almost cried. King Sombra goes near Renés ear with his mouth and says „Yes....cry. You can't fool any pony that you're strong. Just let everything out.“René holds his tears back, pants and tries to stay calm. “Your pain fills me with power and pleasure.“ Sombra says into René's ear. King Sombra steps towards Renés computer, unfreezes it, examines René's videos and says “You have some fans. Only ponies who like you because of your work. But never because of your personality. What a shame. They pretend to like you, even if the don't know you.“ Sombra turns around and see's René standing up with his last energy.

René's gasps and tries to stand on his hooves. Sombra could see the will to fight in René's eyes. “I will not allow you to let any pony suffer again!“ René's knies shivers. Renè couldn't tell how long his hooves will carry him, so he walks towards Sombra. But after he sets one hoove towards Sombra, Sombra walks over to him.

King Sombra smiled “Maybe I'm weak right now, but do you really think you could defeat me?“ Sombra levitates René with his dark magic, slams him at the wall and lets René fall to the ground. René looks up to Sombra while Sombra is laughing. King Sombra lowers his head right in front of René, looks into his eyes and says “Do you wanna know what I will do with your loved ones? I could tell you but....I prefer to show it to you!“ René's eyes turns green and smoke starts to escape from his eyes like Sombra's eyes.

A fighting prey

René closes his eyes and wakes up at the house, where he spent his childhood. Suddenly his mother stands behind him and screams “What are you doing here?! We've abandoned you! You're so selfish! You always just think about yourself!“

René turns around, looks worried and says “What let you think that, mum? I just said that I need some alone time, because we spent a lot of time the last few days. I Just want to see my friends again.“

Renés mother gasps “Am I too embarrassing for you?“

René puts his hoove at his mother's shoulder and answery calmly “No, of course not. I'm not ashamed of anything I love! My friends know you.“

“But we don't know you really, huh?“ René turns around and his friends are stadning in front of him with a judging face.

“What do you mean? I've always been honest with you.“ says René sad.

René's friend ansers “Are you sure of that? You promised me that we're friends! But I've seen you, talking behind my back with the other ponies who always make fun of me! You told them my secret...“ he almost cried.

René wants to hug his friend “No, I would never tell your secret to any pony! Not even our friends!“ Renés friend pushes him away and looks away, so René couldn't see him cry.

Renés other friend stand up against René „Get lost!“

Tears falls down at René's cheeks. He can't believe what's happening. He never did these things his mother and friends are blaming him. „Wait a minute......Sombra! His dirty tricks don't work on me! Maybe I can...“ Renés attacks his friend, that is standing in front of him and bangs his head against him.

His friends falls down and the environment starts to shake and René can see some breaches. René attacks his friends and mum to breakt further the environment, but closes his eyes while attacking, because he still loves them. The look while hurting them hurts René more than when King Sombra stamped on his hurt wing, After some attacks the environment breaks completely and the friend he wanted to attack became Sombra and René slams him against the wall.

Safe for now

Sombra looks up to René, gasps “How could you breakt my spell? Did I really made you hate your mother and friends?“ Sombra laughed weaker than before.

René looks imminent down to Sombra and answers “No, I realized that it was just an illusion. So I tried to break it, even when it hurted me attacking my friends and mother.“

King Sombra grins “Go ahead, take your revenge.“ demands Sombra of René, but he refuses.

King Sombra look turned into incomprehensibility after seeing René is shaking slowly his head. “I felt cold pain, torturing pain and had to to the most difficult thing to free myself from your spell. But I will not kill you. I'm not like you. I'm stronger than you'll ever be! I'm strong enough not to kill or torture any pony! My heart makes me strong and wise. You're nothing. You're just full of sorrow, because of something in your past.“

Sombra's eyes are lacerated. “I wish I could help you, truly. But I think that just six ponies are able to do that. Or maybe just one, the one that hurted you.“

Sombra stands up slowly and looks right into René's eyes. Sombra “When I defeated the princesses, you will be my victim! But next time, you'll not be just an arbitrary victim...you'll wish that you would've bowed to me!“ Sombra disappeared in the darkness.

The ice and snow in René's room melt and everything was before Sombra was here. René looks out of the window and see the moon shining bright and lightens up Equestria in softly light. René sighs, happy that all of this is over. René doesn't feel any fear or worry, because he know, that the mane 6 and the other princesss will defeat Sombra if he decides to tries again to conquer the Crystal Empire and Equestria. “Maybe Flurry Heart will defeat him.“ René giggles a bit and goes back to his computer and starts a livestream, like nothing happened.

"Strength does not grow from physical strength, but from indomitable will." Mahatma Gandhi