Princess Flurry Heart, Defender of the Crystal Empire

It has been about a week since Princess Flurry Heart, with the help of her friends, have defeated Majesty, preventing her from taking over the Crystal Empire and most likely the rest of Equestria after. And with Flurry's first Crystal Fair, in which she planned and oversaw everything, the fair going on perfectly as planned. Everypony was happy and returned to their normal lives like nothing happened. Of course while the Crystal Empire was free from Majesty's reign, that didn't stop the nightmares that followed for one princess...

"You wouldn't get away with this..." Flurry spoke as she was down on the ground, on her hooves, in front of a very familiar white unicorn, Majesty... who was ready to make Flurry bow down to her and give up.

"Oh I have princess, you best give up, you can't beat me..." Majesty chuckled evilly.

"No matter what, I will never bow down to you..." Flurry replied.

"Such a shame you don't see my point of view..." Majesty rolled her eyes before shooting her magic out of her horn, which made Flurry's vision go white as she woke up screaming in the real world from her dream.

"NOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!" Flurry shouted as her voice caught the attention of the guards posted outside her door.

"Your highness, what's wrong!?" One of the guards asked rapidly as a couple of guards burst in, spears at the ready as they scanned the room with their eyes.

Flurry took a few seconds to take in some deep breaths and slow down her panting and heart beat as she realized it was only a dream she witnessed as she turned her attention to the guards who came to her room to see what was wrong.

"I'm alright sirs, just a bad dream is all, return to your posts please." Flurry addressed the guards, who bowed and went back out of the room, taking up their posts, leaving Flurry alone once more in her room. "Come on Flurry, get a hold of yourself... Majesty is locked away where she can never hurt anypony again..." Flurry reminded herself as she struggled to close her eyes and fully return to sleep...

Morning came as breakfast was on the table for the royal family, Cadance and Shining Armor at the table, all fresh and ready to start the day, drinking some hot tea and enjoying bites of hay pancakes. The same could not be said for their daughter...

"Morning mom, dad..." Flurry entered the dining room, yawning with half closed eyes and a very messy bedmane, the young alicorn taking her seat at the table, nearly falling asleep, but managing to just stay awake to take her own sip of hot tea.

"So sweetie..." Cadance began. "You don't look like you slept well..." Cadance getting out as well as she could.

"What are you talking about mom, I'm fully rested and ready for the day." Flurry lied and it was obvious as she yawned once more right after.

"Look sweetie, the guards who were posted outside your door last night told me, before they took their rest, that you were screaming out loud, they had to come in and check on you." Shining Armor informing his daughter. "Your mother and I are very concerned about you, this isn't the first time something like this has happened, this is the third time in the last week."

"And we think it would be a good idea if you saw someone about this, who can help you overcome your problems, I know the whole thing with Majesty has affected you." Cadance added.

"Mom, I'm fine, I just need some time and I'll be back to normal in no time." Flurry trying to gain a voice of confidence as her parents were not too sure...

"Alright sweetie, but promise that if this doesn't go away as you hope, you'll allow us to find help for you." Shining Armor giving in for now.

"I promise daddy." Flurry replied as she ate her breakfast and when that was done decided to go out for some fresh air, hopeful that will help her relax.

As always with a normal day in the Crystal Empire, crystal ponies were trotting about, eating at cafes, tending to their gardens, little colts and fillies playing with each other and it did help to being Flurry to some state of peace within herself, seeing how happy everypony was. Only that peace could last so long...

As Flurry turned a corner, onto a narrower street, up ahead on the other end of the street was a shadowy looking figure, who looked very familiar...

"Hello... Can I help you?" Flurry asked as the figure only looked at her as Flurry took a closer look and now had a look of shock on her face as she recognized the pony, or rather the white unicorn up ahead... "No... That's impossible... You're locked up!"

And by way of answering, the pony shot her magic at Flurry as Flurry was thrown backward, back onto the main street as crystal ponies nearby saw the princess and were rather confused.

"Your highness, are you okay?" An older mare asked Flurry as Flurry was just about ready to fight back, only to take a look at the elder mare and then back at the narrow street she was going to trot through, seeing nopony there...

"Yes, I'm okay, no need to concern yourself with me..." Flurry replied as she picked herself up and decided to go back inside the palace, refusing to go out for at least the rest of the day.

Flurry's condition didn't get better, in fact it only got worse, some days Flurry wouldn't even come out of her room and Shining Armor even spent a night keeping guard by his daughter's bedroom door. Flurry just kept seeing Majesty all over the place, like she was in her mind, which was impossible since she had no magic, having it taken away from her. As Shining Armor spent another night keeping guard by his daughter's bedroom door, he heard Flurry screaming as he rushed inside, of course only Flurry was present as Shining Armor came to Flurry's bedside.

"Sweetie, sweetie, open your eyes!" Shining Armor said loudly as Flurry opened them, feeling her heart racing a thousand miles an hour as she saw her father next to her, quickly holding onto him.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Flurry cried. "I don't know what's happening to me daddy."

"It's okay sweetie, let it out..." Shining Armor urged his daughter as Flurry calmed down as her father then spoke. "Sweetie, we need to fix this, your mother and I have been talking for the last couple of days and we think that your Uncle Sunburst can help."

The next day, in the town of Ponyville...

With the Friendship Express arriving at the train station, Flurry, with her parents, got off along the other passengers as a orange unicorn stallion, wearing a light blue cape decorated with stars, as well as a pair of glasses, came up, apparently waiting for them.

"Your majesties." The stallion bowed.

"It's very good to see you Sunburst." Cadance greeted back.

"Likewise." Sunburst smiled. "And don't worry Flurry, I'll try to the best of my ability to help you with this problem, but first lets head to the castle."

Ever since Flurry became old enough, Sunburst retired as her crystaller and caretaker and became the new Vice headstallion at the School of Friendship, teaching some of the classes and taking care of the school when Headmare Starlight, Sunburst's wife, was away elsewhere or sick. However that didn't mean he lost touch with the royal family or they forgot about him, since Flurry still very much considered Sunburst to be like an uncle to her.

"Thank you Uncle Sunburst..." Flurry smiled. "I'll looking to getting rid of this so I can get back to my duties as princess." Flurry replied as the group went to the castle by Ponyville's outskirts, what was once Princess Twilight's home, that is until she returned to Canterlot, the castle being where Starlight and Sunburst live together now.

Arriving at the castle and going inside, Sunburst opened the door to the castle's library/study, allowing Flurry inside to start, but turned to face Cadance and Shining Armor.

"It's best that I'm alone with her, your majesties, no offense, but it will be better for her to feel comfortable." Sunburst apologizing.

"Alright Sunburst, we trust you." Cadance understood as Sunburst closed the door, leaving him alone with Flurry as the two sat across from each other on a couple of sofas.

"Now, what I have in mind is something I learned from Starlight, hypnosis." Sunburst suggested.

"Hypnosis?" Flurry questioned, confused.

"Yes, using the technique we can get down to your fears and try to eliminate them, hopefully it will work." Sunburst spoke as he took out a pocketwatch. "Are you ready to go?"

"Well, I got no other option right now, do it." Flurry answered as Sunburst started.

"Okay, all you have to do is keep your eyes on the watch..." Sunburst spoke as he slowly swung the watch back and forth with his magic. "You should begin to feel sleepy any moment..." Sunburst spoke softly as Flurry felt her eyes start to go heavy as the lids slowly began to close as she closed them completely. "Just listen to the sound of my voice..." Sunburst continued...

As Flurry was under the hypnosis, her mind went right to Majesty, from the first time she met her, until the time Flurry defeated her, but only something was different as once again Flurry imagined that Majesty was still haunting her, that despite her being locked up, she still posed a threat as Flurry was in a dark setting...

"Hello?" Flurry called out, hearing only her echo. "Anyone here?" Flurry continued calling out as suddenly something grabbed hold of her by way of magic as Flurry was forced to turn around and face...

"Hello... You little pretty princess..." Majesty smiled evilly as she then stopped her magical hold on Flurry as Flurry dropped... And dropped... And dropped, for what seemed like forever as Flurry shouted out, Majesty's from getting smaller and smaller as Flurry continued falling through the pitch black of her conscience...

"NOOO!!!!!!!!!! Flurry shouted out in real life as she snapped out of the hypnosis, opening her eyes wide and causing Sunburst to drop the pocketwatch in slight fright as Flurry felt herself getting a panic attack.

"Hey, hey Flurry, it's okay, you're alright..." Sunburst told the young alicorn as Flurry looked at Sunburst's face.

"I'm sorry Uncle Sunburst..." Flurry apologized.

"It's not your fault, sometimes hypnosis can't work for everypony." Sunburst replied as he helped her back on her hooves as the stallion went out to speak with Cadance and Shining Armor. "I'm sorry, but I tried to do a hypnosis technique and it didn't work, Flurry's trauma is very hard to break it seems, I wish I could do more, but I can't."

"It's okay Sunburst, thank you for trying at least." Shining Armor returned as it was back to the Crystal Empire for the royal family.

As the family got back on the Friendship Express back to the Crystal Empire, Flurry began thinking of other options and well she arrived at one soon enough, one that could either end with her getting over her trauma or making it much worse...