Sunset flew through the night sky, she didn’t know what she was going to do. There was no way she could bring her friends to Ishtar, especially not Pinkie Pie, not after what she went through. But if she didn’t do anything, all those people were going to die, and with Rainbow Dash still under her influence, she could have the girl killed at any time, or worse, have kidnapped the others and make her run around for nothing.

}}} There is an easy solution, go back and incinerate them all. {{{

That’s not a solution! That’s not even an option! They’re not possessed they’re just being mind controlled!

}}} The only other option is for you to bring your friends before that monster and let her have her way with them. In one scenario, you kill the demon and some lives may be lost, but your friends will live and never know of the impossible decision you were forced to make. {{{

You know, the old me might’ve agreed with that plan, but that’s not me anymore. There’s got to be a way to get them out of this, save Rainbow, Cloud Kicker, those people, and kill that demon whore! I can’t call Shining Armor, he’ll bring a police army, and for sure they’ll all get killed. There’s only one way in and one way out, and it’s underground so no one can see what they’re doing…

Sunset hovered in midair, she then placed her hand over the ruby jewel of the Witchblade and conjured her cellphone. She willed the armor to retract from her fingers so she could send a text.

[Emergency meeting at my house! I need everyone there now, there’s something I need to talk to you all about!]

Pinkie Pie arrived at Sunset’s place, having been driven there by her big sister, Maud. The whole way, Maud was a little worried about her little sister, Pinkie didn’t often ask to be taken to a friends house at this hour, on a school night at that. She thought about asking why, but decided if it was urgent enough, Pinkie would’ve told her.

The Pie sisters pulled up to Sunset’s home, and when they did, they already saw Applejack and Rarity there. Pinkie got out and said goodbye to Maud as she drove off, she then joined her two friends and asked, “What’s going on?”

“Ah don’t know, but Sunset said it was urgent so somethin’ bad must be goin’ down,” said Applejack.

“I hope not, but I fear you may be right,” said Rarity.

Rarity’s phone went off and she quickly brought it out to see that she got a text from Sunset.

[Is there anyone around besides you guys?]

Pinkie, Applejack, and Rarity took a moment to scan the area, the only people out on the streets were them.

[No, just us darling. Where are you?]

[Look up.]

All three girls looked up and watched as a winged being descended from the sky. Sunset landed on the ground before them and had her wings retract into the armor. Pinkie Pie gasped upon seeing that Witchblade had appeared before them, but didn’t understand what was happening.

Sunset walked up to them and sighed as she looked at Pinkie Pie. “This wasn’t how I wanted you to find out…” Sunset walked past them and opened the door, letting all four of them inside. Once the door was closed and locked, Sunset had the Witchblade release her clothing onto the couch. Upon doing so, Sunset let the armor return to bracelet form, leaving he nude in the living room.

Pinkie Pie gasped, she watched as Sunset turned around, covering herself with her arms to preserve some amount of her modesty in front of her girlfriend. “Sunset…you’re Witchblade!”

Applejack and Rarity prepared themselves to try and mitigate the fallout from Sunset keeping this secret from Pinkie Pie.

“Yes…I am. I’m sorry, Pinkie, I meant to tell you, but I didn’t know when the right time to do it was. And we just now became a couple so…please, don’t be mad, I really did mean to tell you when the time was right,” Sunset confessed.

Pinkie Pie crossed her arms and hummed in contemplation. “Well, to be honest, I kinda suspected you were anyway.”

The silence was deafening.

“Wait – what – how – when – huh?!” Sunset spluttered.

“I first started suspecting something on that night when you saved me. I kept wondering how you survived getting impaled like that, and then the second night when Witchblade – or you really – came and saved me. I mean, who else knew that that monster was probably going to come after me again?”

“Uh…” was all Sunset could say right now.

“Then I got more suspicious when I heard that Principal Celestia was attacked and was saved by Witchblade, but she also told me that you were attacked too and were being looked after by that Detective Armor. Then there was the whole Rarity fashion show thing, getting attacked while driving on the road, Witchblade showing up, and Sunset was there as well. Then the fashion show itself, both of you ran away, and then Witchblade shows up. And I’m not really sure how, but something tells me that warehouse turning into solid gold had something to do with Apple Bloom getting kidnapped and you running after that van, since Applejack doesn’t seem surprised at all that you’re Witchblade. And there’s the fact that you wear that bracelet everywhere you go, when before you never did wear it. And you seem to be wearing different clothes than what you were wearing before. So, yeah, I had my suspicions, but I figured you’d tell me when you were ready.

}}}…………I know I’ve said this before, but I feel it’s worth repeating. The pink one is scarily perceptive. {{{

Sunset merely turned around and put on her underwear and shirt before turning back to face Pinkie. “Pinkie…are you mad that I didn’t tell you right away?”

Pinkie Pie walked up to Sunset, she gave her a serious look for a few seconds before smiling at her and hugging Sunset tight. “Of course I’m not, you’ve saved a lot of people, and helped your friends! Why would I be mad about that? Like I said, I figured you’d tell me when you were ready.”

Sunset hugged Pinkie back and said, “I really don’t deserve you.”

“Ahem,” Applejack interrupted. “Ah really hate to mess up this moment, but ya texted us a red alert, so what’s goin’ on?”

Sunset broke the hug and sighed heavily. “You need to sit down for this.”

The former unicorn spent the next ten minutes or so explaining to Rarity, Pinkie, and Applejack what happened today and how it was connected to Rainbow Dash’s odd behavior, as well as telling them about the ransom demand that Ishtar wanted in return for the safety of her hostages. As expected, this made all three of them turn pale.

“She’ll kill them in the next…” Sunset looked at her phone, “three hours and thirty minutes.”

“She wants us…to give ourselves up…so she can…do things to us?” Applejack asked.

Pinkie Pie hugged her body, she narrowly escaped getting raped by one monster, now another one was aiming to do the same thing, but somehow Pinkie suspected that this one would do worse to her than the previous one.

Rarity was hugging her body as well, she had wanted to give her first time to someone she loved, or at the very least someone she trusted very much, but not like this, not a monster that would just use her body for their pleasure and evil plans.

“I’ve been trying to think of a plan since then, but nothing’s coming to mind, nothing that doesn’t end up with getting all those people killed or you guys…” Sunset growled as she punched the brick wall next to her. “This is all my fault! I got so worked up about what happened to Rainbow Dash and I charged in there without even considering that she may have minions or something!”

Pinkie Pie stood up from the couch and walked to Sunset, she placed her hands on her shoulders to try and comfort her girlfriend. “Sunset, you had no idea that that monster could do that! It’s not your fault.”

“Pinkie’s right…that monster’s not given ya any wiggle room. Either you bring us or she starts killin’ people…or you go back and kill her, and those people end up dead,” said Applejack.

“There’s no easy answer to this, darling. One way or the other, something terrible is going to happen. Either innocent people die and that monster is slain, or…” Rarity began to shiver. “…or we let that thing violate us…and give it the power it needs to call on more of its horrible kind.”

“Maybe I should write to Princess Twilight? Maybe she has a solution?!” Sunset suggested. “Shit, what am I thinking?! There’s no time, she could be out on some grand adventure right now, miles away from the journal! FUCK!”

Sunset began to cry, as smart as she was, she couldn’t think of a way out of this situation that didn’t involve someone getting hurt, her friends or innocent people, one way or the other, someone was going to die tonight, and it’d be her fault.

“I’ll do it…”

Sunset’s eyes widened as she dared to look at Pinkie Pie. “Please don’t say that…Please don’t…”

“Sunset…there’s no good solution, right? Either you go and kill those people and that monster, or you offer us up instead…”

Sunset turned around and grabbed Pinkie Pie by the shoulders. “No! I won’t let you be put through that kind of trauma again! I have the power to protect you all!”

“But if you use that power, it means you’ll have to live with the guilt that you killed people who did nothing wrong, are you really going to tell me that you can live with it?” Pinkie asked.

“If it means none of you die or get violated then…then…” Sunset shook, she couldn’t say it, she could barely think it. “Faust, I wish I was my old self right now! The old me would be able to make this kind of decision!”

Applejack stood up from the couch and stood with Pinkie. “The old you wouldn’t have given a damn about savin’ Apple Bloom, the old you would’ve just taken what you know about my family’s farm and hold it over our heads to use fer later. That’s what the old Sunset Shimmer would’ve done. You ain’t her anymore, you care about others, you hold yer friends dear to you, and you look at us like family.” Applejack put her hand on Sunset’s shoulder. “Ah’ll…Ah’ll go too.”

“Applejack…” Sunset whispered. She then saw Rarity get up and her lament deepened. “Rarity, please…”

“Sunset…none of us blame you. Circumstances are what they are and I believe the five of us share some blame in this. Had we stuck by you through this Anon-A-Miss fiasco, perhaps Rainbow Dash wouldn’t have done what she did and ended up in the state she’s in,” said Rarity.

“You don’t know that!” Sunset stated.

Rarity nodded in agreement. “Perhaps you’re right, but it’s something that has occurred due to our choices.”

“You guys…” Sunset shook her head. “Don’t do this because you think you need to punish yourselves for what happened, I forgave you all! I’ve even decided to forgive Rainbow Dash whenever she comes around! I just got some of you back, don’t make me have to lose you now!”

Pinkie Pie rubbed her arm and said, “We know you did…but, deep down, I don’t think we’ve forgiven ourselves.”

“Ah’m with Pinkie…Ah can’t fully fergive myself for abandonin’ ya when the tide was high like it is, leavin’ ya to swim through that stormy sea of CHS,” said Applejack.

“In a way, this is probably the kind of punishment one should receive for betraying their friends in such a horrible manner,” said Rarity.

Sunset couldn’t believe what she was hearing, she opened her arms and brought the girls into a tight a group hug as her arms could spread, sobbing could be heard amongst them all. The loudest of this was Sunset’s, she was about to offer up her friends, and there was nothing she could do to prevent this.

Fluttershy had read the text, but she knew she couldn’t go. Not with Rainbow Dash still in her current state. She had fallen asleep an hour ago, her fever hadn’t gone down, but neither had it gone up either. Right now, Fluttershy was still processing everything that Rainbow had told her. This underground sex club, a woman called The Vessel, and this “goddess” Ishtar. Fluttershy was familiar with the name, from her English writing classes when they discussed the “Epic of Gilgamesh”, she was one of the gods of ancient Mesopotamia, the goddess of love and war.

Could a being like that truly exist? Granted it went against all she believed in regarding God, but that’s not to say she was about to dismiss it outright. Magic existed, alternate dimensions filled with intelligent magic wielding ponies existed, demons definitely existed, so why not other ancient gods and goddesses? Honestly, after finding out magic existed and that she too had magic powers, it kind of threw Fluttershy’s world view upside down for a little while. Still, it didn’t shake her faith, because of such things existed, then that only meant that God existed too.

Fluttershy was sitting in a chair that the nurses brought in, she hadn’t left Rainbow’s side for a long while. The nurses were close to calling visiting hours over, and she knew she’d have to leave her best friend soon, but Fluttershy felt that she needed to be by Rainbow’s side. After Rainbow’s confession, she didn’t tell her parents or the doctors. How was she to explain this to them anyway? That Rainbow had sex with a mythological goddess and that’s why she’s like this? Despite all that was happening in the city with the mayor announcing the existence of demon-like monsters, there was no way a doctor was going to believe her.

I have magical powers, and even I can barely believe it.

Fluttershy glanced over to her friend again and saw that she was waking. “Hey, Dashie.”

“Hey, Shy…what time is it?”

“Seven-thirty, they’ll be making me leave soon, but you’re mom said she’ll be staying here tonight. Do you feel any different?” Fluttershy asked.

“No…I still can’t believe I did that…I can’t believe I let myself get into this mess…I’m such a fuck up…” said Rainbow Dash with shame.

Fluttershy reached for Rainbow’s right hand and gave it a gentle, reassuring squeeze. “You’re not a, uh…uh…ahem, screw up. Things just happened, you didn’t mean to have all that happen.”

“I didn’t stop it from happening either…” Rainbow looked away from her. “I liked it Shy…I like what was happening to me, for that time, I didn’t have to think about what was going on. How I might’ve betrayed Sunset, whether or not she really is Anon-A-Miss…all of it was just gone…”

“I understand how you feel…I find myself going to church more than I normally do, I keep hoping there’ll be a sign that something good will happen and change all of this. But, so far nothing.”

Rainbow Dash smiled. “Don’t they usually say ‘He works in mysterious ways’ or something?”

Fluttershy nodded.

“Maybe I’m the wake up call…for both of us. I swear, if I make it out of this–”

“When you make it out of this,” Fluttershy corrected.

“When I make it out of this. I’ll apologize to Sunset, not just for what happened today, but – AAAGGGH!!!”

Suddenly, the heartbeat monitor began to beep rapidly, Rainbow Dash clutched at Fluttershy’s hand tight as she thrashed about on the bed. Fluttershy could feel it just from her palm, Rainbow Dash was getting hotter. Before Fluttershy could call for help, Rainbow Dash arched her back, her veins began to glow with pinkish-violet light from her toes all the way up to her head. Her eyes shone bright pink and then faded until only her irises were that color.

Fluttershy managed to get her hand loose as she got into the hall and yelled, “NURSE, DOCTOR! SHE NEEDS HELP!”

“Oh, I’m great, Shy.”

Fluttershy turned around and saw that Rainbow Dash had ripped out her I. V. line and was now standing up in the middle of the room in her hospital gown. In less than a second, Rainbow’s forearms and lower legs were completely encased in pink-violet crystals, the crystals took on the form of claws and talons, the latter of which cut grooves into the floor as she flexed them.

The doctors and nurses arrived, but they were too late as Rainbow’s takeover was complete. The prismatic teen used her left claw to grip her hospital gown and tore it off of her body, revealing that the crystals had also formed armor around her torso. Windy Whistles, Rainbow’s mother, came running around the corner and gasped upon seeing the state her daughter was in.

“D-Dashie?!” Windy exclaimed in shock.

“Hey, Mom, looking hot as always,” said Rainbow.

“Sweetie, please, try and control yourself! Let these doctors help you!” Windy pleaded.

Rainbow gently raked her claws over her body in a seductive manner and hummed in content. “Now why the hell would I let them help me? I don’t need help, Mom, I feel so freakin’ good! But, right now, I need Fluttershy.”

“M-Me?” Fluttershy asked.

“My goddess, Ishtar, she wants you, actually, she wants all our friends, but they should be coming soon.” Rainbow Dash held out her clawed hand. “C’mon, Shy, it might be scary for a second, but I promise the only thing you’ll feel during and after is absolute bliss.”

Fluttershy shook her head. “Dashie, you need to try and focus! This isn’t you, you’re being controlled by a monster!”

Rainbow Dash sighed in disappointment. “I guess we’re doing this the hard way.” The crystal that formed her hand suddenly jutted out and coiled like a snake. The claw wrapped itself around one of the nurses and brought them close to Rainbow. “Either come with me, Shy or…” Rainbow’s left hand transformed into a four-foot-long blade, which she pointed at the nurse’s head. “I’ll cut her head off, or I could lob off an arm, we’re in a hospital after all, so I’m sure they can reattach it. What do you say?”

Another nurse came up behind them and whispered to the doctor, “The police are on their way!”

They won’t be here in time…and if they do get here they might just kill Rainbow without any hesitation, thought Fluttershy.

The pink haired girl sighed and stepped away from the group. “I’ll go.”

“Fluttershy!” Windy exclaimed. “Don’t!”

Fluttershy glanced over her shoulder and said, “It’s alright, Dashie won’t hurt me.” She then looked back at her best friend. “Will you.”

Rainbow smiled and released the nurse, her arms spread out as if to welcome a hug from her friend. “Why would I ever hurt you, Shy? I love you, you’re my best friend.” The mind-controlled teen walked up to Fluttershy and gave her a hug as she whispered, “My first crush.”

With great speed, Rainbow Dash swept Fluttershy off her feet and carried her bridal style. The armor grew out onto her back, and from it two crystal clawed arms formed. The two arms reached back and smashed the window to her room, and in the next second, the two arms gripped the edge and pulled back. The nurses, doctor, and Windy watched as Fluttershy and Rainbow flew out the window, all of them hurried to see if they had fallen to their deaths, thankfully – depending on your point of view – Rainbow Dash was running along the rooftops, leaping and bounding at great speeds as she soon disappeared from sight.

{You’re doing what?!}

“There’s no choice, Shining Armor. It’s either this or a lot of people are going to die.”

{You’re going to sacrifice your friends to a monster, how’s that any better?! I thought you told me that your friends were the most important thing to you?!}

Sunset bit her lower lip as she clenched her left fist. “Don’t you think that this killing me?! But they…they said they were going to do it…I’ve sent you a text where they’re located, don’t know how much good it’ll do.”

Sunset could hear shuffling in the background. {Don’t do anything, let me get a team together and head down there! We can come up with a plan or–!}

“Shining, the facility is three stories down underground, one way in, and one way out. She’ll kill everyone, it’s a lose-lose situation.” Sunset glanced downward, she was flying while her friends where in the car down below, their location drawing closer with every minute. “I’ll do whatever I can to stop her, believe me I’m going or die trying!”

{Sunset wai–!}

Sunset hung up the phone and let the phone return into the Witchblade’s ruby.

}}} I know this is hard for you, but rest assured that you are not the first of my wielders to have been forced into such a situation. {{{

How many of them ended up not having to sacrifice the ones they loved?

}}} ……… {{{

That says it all…

}}} I can only offer my companionship. I will always be here for you, till death do us part, Sunset. {{{

Wow, didn’t know this was a marriage thing.

Sunset’s gut was tied into knots as she saw the warehouse, she took the lead and had the girls follow in the car. Soon they arrived at the warehouse in question, Sunset landed upon the pavement as her armor clanked against the hard ground. Rarity, Pinkie, and Applejack emerged from the car, they’re faces were grim, and why not, they were essentially about to be offered up as sex sacrifices. Part of Sunset, the dark part, was telling her to forget those people inside and just burn the entire thing to the ground. If Ishtar succeeded, there was going to be a massive influx of Wendigos pouring into the city, and who knows how many innocent people were going to die.

A small handful of people dying, or a whole city’s worth? The rational answer would be to sacrifice the few to save the many, but was that really the right choice? These people, despite what they came here to do, had families and loved ones that were waiting for their return, could Sunset live with their blood on her hands? Sunset looked back at her friends, and was honestly considering that a handful of strangers blood was better than the blood of those she considered family.

Pinkie Pie walked up and placed her hand on Sunset’s shoulder. “I know what you’re thinking, so don’t do it.”

“Pinkie…it’s a lot better than what’s about to happen to you all.”

“Maybe…but can you live with it? Do you think we can live with knowing that we’re alive and untouched because we sacrificed a lot of innocent people?” Pinkie asked.

Rarity walked up to Sunset’s right and said, “I could never face Sweetie Belle or my parents knowing that my life was spared at the cost of so many.”

“Same here,” said Applejack. “Ah’m startin’ to change things at home, Ah don’t want to add this to meh conscious.”

Sunset sighed heavily, left with no other recourse. The girls had texted Fluttershy repeatedly, but there was no answer from her. Ishtar had made it clear to Sunset that she wanted all her friends, but hoped that she could settle for them. To be honest, all of them thought that that was for the best, if there was one person they didn’t want to see in this situation, it was Fluttershy.

Sunset led the group inside the musty warehouse, passed the rusted machines and towards the backdoor. They walked down three flights of stairs before arriving at the entrance. There stood the black robed man, although it seemed that Ishtar had forgone any subtly, the man was also covered in crystal armor, his rugged visage would be enough to make most girls swoon, but given the current situation, that thought that was far from any of their minds.

The guard opened the door and ushered them inside, he allowed Witchblade in, but held up his left hand and said, “No clothes in the sanctum.”

Rarity instinctually grabbed at her coat, Applejack looked as if she was about ready to deck the guy, and Pinkie, understandably, was shaking like a leaf.

“This is going to be humiliating enough as it is, at least let them keep some of their dignity until then!”

The guard paused for a moment as he closed his eyes, and as if having received a mental command, nodded to Sunset. The girls rushed past him as he closed the door, they took a moment to look around, seeing the shower room door and the many cubby holes that were still filled with clothes and shoes.

“Do we…Do we have to…?” Rarity asked.

“No, but don’t expect that to last.”

The girls filed in behind Sunset as she opened the door, and just like she was, the three of them were hit with aroma of sex and the humid heat of the Sanctum. When they stepped foot inside, their bodies began to tingle all over. It was such a pervasive feeling, as if they were already being manipulated into feeling aroused despite what was about to happen to them. The thirty-four mind controlled people had formed a wall around the entrance, barring anyone from escaping.

The crowd parted ways as the girls made their way further inside. Aside from Sunset, none of them could stop blushing from seeing the many naked bodies around them. Sunset stopped when they reached the throne, Ishtar was still in her transformed state, and right next to her was Cloud Kicker.

“We’re here…”

“Indeed you are, but as I recall, there should be five of you,” said Ishtar.

“We couldn’t get ahold of them, please, aren’t they enough?!” Sunset pleaded.

Ishtar looked to the frightened girls and smiled. “Not to worry, the last of you should be arriving any minute now.”

“What?!”

The crowd parted again and all four of them gasped in horror. Rainbow Dash was walking in, carrying Fluttershy who was huddled against Rainbow Dash.

“FLUTTERSHY, DASH!”

Fluttershy dared to open her eyes, although, she didn’t need to, she could already tell by the smell and feelings the moment they entered that this was the place that Rainbow had spoken of, and upon the throne was the demon creature, Ishtar. But what she wasn’t expecting, was the rest of her friends and Witchblade to be here.

“Rarity, Pinkie, Applejack! W-Why are you here?!” Fluttershy asked.

Rainbow let Fluttershy stand, but walked around the group until she and Fluttershy were standing at the foot of the stairs to Ishtar’s throne.

“There’s something I should tell you, Sunset.”

“Sunset?!” Fluttershy exclaimed, she then looked towards Witchblade and asked, “Sunset…?”

Ishtar looked down at the expression on Fluttershy’s face and smiled wickedly. “Seems that you didn’t tell all your friends about your side job, huh? Yes, your friend here’s been a constant thorn in our sides, but today she’s finally met her match. For you see…” Ishtar snapped her fingers.

All of the hostages stood up and in a matter of seconds, all of them were donned in the same crystal armor as Cloud Kicker and Rainbow Dash.

Sunset’s eyes widened and then narrowed into dangerous slits. “YOU BITCH! YOU TRICKED ME! THEY WERE ALL BEING MIND CONTROLLED!”

Ishtar laughed boisterously, as if this was the funniest thing in the world to her. “Indeed, they’re all my humble servants! Ha, aha, ha! How does it feel to have walked your friends into a den of hungry wolves, Sunset? How does it feel to have utterly failed to protect them?!”

Sunset widened her stance as blades began to form from her two arm gauntlets. But the moment she did, she saw that the mind controlled people were gathering around them.

Ishtar looked down at her newest recruit and said, “Rainbow Dash.” The girl in question looked up at her master. “I can sense you’re deep seeded feelings for that girl. A crush that was never requited, a passion that you wanted to shower her with in the privacy of your bedroom. Now, I give you that chance. I will have you and her soon, but for now, you may enjoy her.”

“Thank you, my goddess!” Rainbow replied.

Fluttershy looked up at Ishtar and then back at Rainbow Dash, seeing the hungry look in her eyes. “Dashie, please don’t do this!”

Without a word, Rainbow Dash tossed Fluttershy onto the floor and pounced on top of her. Like a predatory animal, she sniffed her friend, inhaling her sweet scent. “Dammit, Shy, you have no idea how much I’ve wanted to do this with you~”

“Dashie…please don’t,” Fluttershy begged.

“Rainbow Dash! Stop!”

Her words meant nothing to Rainbow. With her right claw, Rainbow gently brought her claw to the collar of Fluttershy’s shirt and dragged it down, its sharp edge cutting the fabric like wet tissue paper. Rainbow stopped midway down, and ripped the shirt open enough to expose some of Fluttershy’s lacey bra and her cleavage.

Rainbow propped herself up, allowing her to look down at the tear streaked face of her lover, she had always known – no, knew – that Fluttershy was a bombshell of a girl, almost everyone in the school knew it. She was so kind and so gentle, so demure, and caring, and had a body that made every straight guy, bi, and lesbian in school want to give their right arms just have a night with her. A part of Rainbow took pride in the fact that such a beautiful and wonderful person like Fluttershy was her friend, but now she could deepen it, she rebuffed her advances a long time ago, saying she was straight and didn’t see Rainbow that way. But now was different, now Rainbow could show her just how much she cared about Fluttershy, now she could–

Fluttershy reached up slowly and placed her hands on either side of Rainbow’s face, making her pause. “Rainbow, please don’t do this. I believe in you, you’re better than this, you’re stronger than this! The Rainbow Dash I know and love would never allow a monster to control her! Do you remember that day that you asked me to be with you, when we were younger?”

“When…When we were younger…?”

How could she forget? It was when they were fourteen, Rainbow Dash had just come to understand her true feelings, come to understand that she was in fact attracted to girls. She came out to Fluttershy and she said she would support her and be there for her.

Rainbow also had asked Fluttershy to be her first, she wanted to be with someone she trusted and cared about. At first, even though Rainbow knew that her friend didn’t swing that way, Fluttershy was hesitant, but agreed that she would with her. Ironically, they were in the same position they were a long time ago, with Rainbow on top of Fluttershy and Fluttershy looking up at Rainbow.

However, it only took one look into Fluttershy’s eyes to know that it wasn’t right. Fluttershy was too kind a person to say no to Rainbow, especially when she came to her with such a request, of course she’d say yes.

“I won’t do that you, Shy.”

“B-But, I said it was okay.”

“I know you did, but I know you. And you’ll agree to do this for me so I won’t feel bad that I was rejected by someone I trust.”

“…I…I…”

“Shy, I won’t ever hurt you, and I won’t ever take something as important as this from you. You’re–”

“You’re my best friend…” Rainbow’s eyes shed tears. “What…What am I doing?!”

Ishtar’s victorious smile began to fade a little, cracks started to form on Rainbow’s crystal armor. Rainbow got off of Fluttershy as she stood upright, she then began to claw at her crystal armor, tearing off chunks of it as she yelled out her frustration through the entire Sanctum. All five girls watched as Rainbow ripped off the final piece of crystal armor, leaving her in only her sports bra and matching panties. The sports girls fell to her knees and Fluttershy quickly rushed to her friend’s side, cradling her close to her chest as she stroked her hair.

“Dashie, are you alright?!” Fluttershy.

Rainbow, weakly, looked up at Fluttershy. “I’m sorry…”

“Don’t be, you didn’t do anything, just like I knew you would,” said Fluttershy.

Ishtar was squeezing the armrest of her throne, and when she saw this she crushed in anger. She stood up and said, “You weak, pathetic little whore! I gave you the opportunity to fulfill your desires, and you turn your back on it!”

Fluttershy glared up at the monster and declared, “It takes real strength to retrain yourself! To do what is best for someone you love!”

Ishtar growled. “Cloud, go down there and bring that little tomboy bitch up so that I can make an example of her before her friends!”

Cloud nodded and jumped down from the throne and landed a few feet from where Rainbow and Fluttershy were. Rainbow Dash tried to stand, but the effort to break free from Ishtar’s control had taken a lot out of her. However, Fluttershy stood instead, putting herself between Cloud and Rainbow.

“Shy?”

“You’ve protected me since we were kids…”

“FLUTTERSHY!”
“SHY!”
“FLUTTERSHY!”
“FLUTTERSHY!”

Cloud dashed towards Fluttershy, reaching out with her left claw, prepared to attack her. Fluttershy was frozen in place, she knew she stood no chance against Cloud Kicker, she was already a very athletic person, and with that armor Cloud Kicker was far stronger than her. But Fluttershy wouldn’t move, she meant what she said, Rainbow had protected her since they were kids, it was time for Fluttershy to return the favor.

As soon as Cloud’s arm came into range, Fluttershy’s eyes narrowed into slits as she grabbed that arm, swept Cloud’s legs, and then used her momentum to toss Cloud Kicker straight into the opposite wall, doing all of this in one motion that it seemed like a blur. Cloud landed with a hard grunt as she slid down, and groaned when she hit the ground.

Ishtar, Rainbow, Rarity, Applejack, Sunset, and Pinkie all looked at Fluttershy with shock at what she did. Fluttershy, who seemed to just realize what she just did, clasped her hands around her mouth, shocked by her actions.

“Oh my, did…did I just do that?!” Fluttershy asked.

“Someone get her!” Ishtar ordered.

Another crystal armored slave tried to grab Fluttershy, but, in yet another shocking display of martial skill, Fluttershy delivered quick jabs to the slave’s head, followed by a flying roundhouse that sent the poor slave flying into the crowd.

“I-I-I honestly have no idea how I’m doing that!”

Another of the crystal slaves attacked, but Sunset formed a chain and whipped it towards the attacker. It quickly wrapped around the target, and with a swift tug, Sunset whipped the slave back to the rest of the dregs that were still being controlled. The rest of the girls gathered around them, while Sunset entered a defensive stance.

“However it is you’re doing it, do NOT stop!”

Three more attacked at once, but Sunset quickly took on two of them, she elbow struck the first, and went into an uppercut sending that one into the air. The second tried to slash at her back, but Sunset jumped up, spun in midair, and landed behind her assailant. Before the slave could figure out what happened, Sunset kicked them back into the crowd.

Fluttershy was blocking most of the attacks from her opponent, some of them managed to cut her, but Fluttershy ignored them, they were minor cuts, nothing close to her arteries. Watch their footing, don’t strike recklessly, find the weak point and hit with precision.

How do I know that?!

The slave threw another reckless blow, Fluttershy ducked under it and hit around the bicep, and then buried her fist into the exposed side of her opponent. The slave grunted in pain and loss a bit of feeling in their arm. Without wasting a second, she spun around to the slave’s right and struck him in the back of the head with a well placed chop. He fell to the ground within seconds, completely knocked out.

Ishtar continued to watch this spectacle from above, watching as Sunset and Fluttershy continued to knockout one crystal slave after the other. Her ire grew more and more, this was not how it was supposed to go, this was supposed to be her victory, her moment of triumph.

“ENOUGH!!!”

Ishtar was through with appearances, she disliked her other form, but right now a bit of ugly was needed. The false goddess’ body began to glow, her feminine form giving way to something terrifying. Her arms grew out, turning into crystals and granting her long, jagged claws. Her legs grew longer, granting crystal talons that crushed the throne. A six-foot-long tail formed behind her, whipping back and forth in agitation. Crystal spines grew along her back, all just as jagged as her claws and talons. From her back, six, crystal bone spikes jutted out, her neck elongated just a bit, and her head became that of a beast. The top portion of her head was encased in crystal, leaving only slits for her eyes to look through, her lower jaw dislocated a few times until it was longer and riddled with dagger-like teeth. Her body grew a bit, making her hunch over as she snarled and growled, and making her stand at least ten feet tall.

The girls all looked at the transformation with shock and horror, gone was the picture of an alluring demoness, what stood before them was the embodiment of the evils of lust.

“All I wanted to do was take your magic, take the lust and power that is within you and bring about the coming of the rest of my kind! I was going to make it a very pleasurable experience for you six, you wouldn’t have felt any pain, and you would’ve been begging me for more! I was even considering keeping you around as my pets! But you just pissed me off!!!”

Ishtar jumped off the top of the stairs and landed before them, her slaves giving her a wide berth so that she could move about. Ishtar used her tail to whip Sunset, striking her in the stomach, the blow made her sail across the room, slamming into a column.

“SUNSET!” They all yelled.

Ishtar roared as she grabbed Fluttershy with her right claw, bringing her up close so she could look the troublemaker in the eyes. “I’m going to start with you! I’ll make you scream in ecstasy and pain until the line between them is so blurred that you’ll never tell which is which! I’ll break you in front of your friends so that they know what’s in store for them!”

Fluttershy was afraid, more afraid than she had ever been, and yet, something burned inside her, a determination, a deep burning desire to not falter before this evil creature. Then Fluttershy did something that she knew was probably not going to work, but at the very least was worth a shot. She clasped her hands together and began to pray.

“Heavenly Father, please grant me the strength to face this great evil.”

“Praying? Are you serious?” Ishtar looked down at the girls. “Is she serious?” She then turned her attention back to Fluttershy and grinned evilly. “Go on then, pray your little heart out, because believe me, no god, current or ancient, is going to save your wretched life!”

“Grant me the strength to protect my friends! To see us through this trial! In Your name, AMEN!”

Suddenly, Fluttershy’s hands began to shine with a bright white light. She quickly pointed those hands at Ishtar, and upon doing so, the large demon roared in great pain. She dropped Fluttershy, Applejack quickly got under her and caught her, but Fluttershy didn’t stop, she continued to point her hands at Ishtar, she didn’t know how or why, but this light was hurting Ishtar, and right now that’s all she cared about.

Sunset picked herself up, and saw that the crystal slaves were surrounding her and preparing to maul her. That is until they heard the screams of their goddess. The bright light that shone from Fluttershy also seemed to affect the people as well. Their crystal armor started to chip and crack, little by little, until it all shattered and dissolved into dust. All the mind controlled people fell to the floor, completely unconscious. Sunset looked towards the light and saw that Fluttershy was the one it was emanating from.

Please tell me you know what that is?

}}} All I know is that that light is not normal, it’s divine light. {{{

“Divine”? H-How did Fluttershy? You know what, someone as saintly as Fluttershy would be able to do that. But, bonus, Ishtar’s weak!

Fluttershy was getting tired, eventually she dropped her arms as the divine light faded away. Ishtar’s body was sizzling, as if it were a vampire that was exposed to direct sunlight. The beast of lust growled with rage as she managed to get herself back up, her deadly gaze trained directly on Fluttershy.

“HOW DARE YOU!!! TO HELL WITH IT ALL, I’M JUST GOING TO KILL YOU!!!” Ishtar declared.

“Hey, nympho bitch!” Ishtar looked up. “Forget about me?!!”

Sunset’s wings flared as she charged straight for the monster, hitting her with a flying uppercut and forcing Ishtar’s head to hit the ceiling. The bringer of Balance landed next to her friends and ordered them, “GET OUT! NOW!”

The girls backed away as Sunset’s body ignited with flames. With a powerful leap, Sunset flew up towards Ishtar, hitting her right in the gut with both her fists. But she didn’t stop, she used the flames to propel her forward, forcing Ishtar all the way up into the ceiling. With another burst of flames, Sunset smashed Ishtar straight through the ceiling.

Sunset kept pushing her, slamming through one layer of concrete and metal after the other. They eventually broke through the surface, out into the road a few feet away from where the warehouse was situated. Once in the air, Sunset hefted the beast and threw her into the wall of another warehouse. She took a moment to look around, when she did, she saw that there were several police cruisers outside, along with SWAT vans, among the droves of police Sunset spotted Shining Armor among the assembled police, she managed a smile in his direction. Thankfully he spotted her and nodded in her direction.

Sunset put her focus back on Ishtar, she was tearing herself out of the wall she was thrown into and roaring with all her fury at Sunset. I am going to enjoy killing you for putting me through all this shit!! For putting my friends through this shit!!!

Ishtar opened her mouth and fired a pink beam of light from it. Sunset flew out of the direction of the beam and flew in the opposite direction of where the police were. When the beam struck the ground, it created crystals, the longer the beam hit that spot, the more the crystals formed.

“You’ve got to be kidding me, it’s like the damn game! Except this time, I have the best hack in the world right now!”

Sunset held up her right hand and into it she willed the Witchblade to recreate the Sol Gladius, except instead of a plasma blade, it was a fire blade. Close enough though. Sunset twirled her fire sword around and flew at the beast, slashing it across her face. Ishtar hissed with pain, the gash on her crystal exoskeletal armor was deeply cut, making some of her black blood drip out.

Sunset didn’t let up as she bounded off the ground and slashed upwards. Ishtar moved back just in time to miss the slash, but Sunset spun around and pointed her left hand at the monster, from it she unleashed a torrent of flames that exploded in Ishtar’s face.

The beast of lust thrashed about, but managed to use one of her crystal bones, to strike Sunset, throwing her to the ground. The beast hurried and stamped her foot onto Sunset, making her cough up blood. The crystalline creature came down for another stomp, but Sunset pointed her sword up just as she came down. The burning blade pierced through Ishtar’s foot, causing searing pain to radiate through her foot and up her leg, forcing her to hop backwards.

Sunset dragged herself up, some of her bones were broken from that stomp, but the Witchblade was already healing her. Across from her, she watched as the police started to bring out the people from underground, Shining Armor seemed to make getting her friends out top priority as he came out with all five of them. For a moment, Sunset and Pinkie’s eyes met, and her vigor to end this monster was doubled.

Sunset’s hair started to rise as power flowed through her body at ever increasing levels. Her armor began to shift between the obsidian color and red color, her hair had tinges of silver, and her eyes were also shifting between turquoise and gold. Sunset dismissed her sword and dashed towards the monster, hitting Ishtar with a right punch across her snout, the impact was thunderous, shaking the windows, cars, and ground. A large dent in Ishtar’s crystal armor formed as shards of that armor cascaded from the point of impact.

“If there’s one thing you need to learn in this life! It’s this!”

The bringer of Balance flew backwards and then shot straight for Ishtar’s stomach, hitting her with a flying kick to the gut that sent her flying through another warehouse. Sunset flew at Mach speeds, waiting for Ishtar on the other side as she plowed through the entire warehouse before ending up in front Sunset.

“And that’s that you NEVER!”

Sunset brought both her hands together into a double hammer fist and struck Ishtar square on the head, sending the beast straight to the ground and kicking up a dust cloud.

“EVER!”

The heroine dropped down from the sky with a burst of speed, hitting her knee right between the shoulder blades of Ishtar, once again making the beast of lust cry out in pain. Sunset then flew to her tail and grabbed the end of it. With a flap of her wings she ascended into the sky, her muscles bulged from the strain of carrying such a heavy creature, but she hardly felt it. Once she was up high enough, Sunset spun in the air, twirling Ishtar at the same time. A gale force wind was created from her rapid spins, making most of the people below have to brace themselves.

“MESS WITH MY FRIENDS!!!”

Sunset tossed Ishtar as if she was a sack of potatoes, the false goddess hit the ground with a powerful “BOOM!”, sending an even bigger cloud of dust into the air.

“Now take this!” Both of Sunset’s hand burned with white and red flames, she then brought her hands together, and from their union, a large sword made of plasmatic flames erupted into existence before her. “My love…my anger…and all my sorrow!!!”

Sunset sped down towards Ishtar, piercing through the dust cloud and causing it to vanish from the sheer rapid force of her descent. Ishtar managed to come around before Sunset could land the killing blow, Ishtar ducked out of the way, but not far enough that her attack didn’t land. Ishtar roared in pain as Sunset’s crimson fire saber slashed through both of her legs at once.

Ishtar rolled around on the ground, her monster form shrinking until it was back to the more feminine body she had before. She crawled on the ground, her legs cauterized by the intense heat of Sunset’s fire saber, which was still active in her hand. Sunset looked to the spot where the legs she cut off were, and saw that they transformed back into the shapely white legs of Fleur de Lis.

Sunset felt a bit sad for the girl inside that creature, but as she told her, she was a hollow existence, her only conscious choice was to allow Ishtar to fill her body. The demon slayer slowly approached Ishtar, dragging the tip of her fire saber across the ground, letting it cut a molten groove into the ground.

“For Fleur’s sake, I’ll make this quick!”

“No, not like this!” Ishtar whined.

Just then, a gray and black mass swirled around Ishtar, making Sunset back away and get on the defensive. The monochrome mass took on the shape of a female, it’s piercing red eyes fixed on Sunset. The rest of its body was swirling around Ishtar, keeping her out of sight.

“I’m going to take a wild guess, you’re the third, aren’t you. Nihil?”

“I’ve come to accept that name you humans have given me.” Nihil’s voice was feminine, and almost childlike, but at the same time, the cold tones of death were laced within her words. “I can’t allow you to kill her, she’s still needed.”

“Tough, but you just saved me the trouble of finding you!” Sunset raised her sword and prepared to strike.

“I wouldn’t do that, look there.”

Nihil pointed towards where the cops and hostages were, and when Sunset looked in that direction, she could see a swirling vortex of that same monochromatic mist hovering around them. Sunset watched as part of that mist touched a police car, and the spot it did touch was erased, not dissolved, corroded, cut, burnt, or chipped away, just erased.

“You bitch…”Sunset muttered.

“I propose a trade, give me Ishtar, and you can have all those humans. Is it a deal?” Nihil asked.

Sunset made the mistake of almost sacrificing her friends to these creatures, she was not going to make the same mistake twice. She dismissed her fire saber and her transitioning colors stopped. “Deal.”

“Good choice, Witchblade. I look forward to our next meeting.”

Nihil wrapped herself in the mist, the mist that was hovering over everyone else returned to its owner before it took off into the night sky, disappearing from sight.

Sunset hated that this, all of the big three had gotten away, and she only managed to wound two of them. Nihil was something else though, she, it, whatever, was obviously the most dangerous of them all, and Sunset only dreaded what that one had in store for the city. Sunset took one last look at her friends and girlfriend, with the promise that the police would look after them, Sunset took off into the air, heading straight for home.

Nihil’s mist carried her and Ishtar all the way to some out of the way building. It was there that she dumped Ishtar onto the floor, right across from Midas. The golden demon saw the sorry state that Ishtar was in and couldn’t help but laugh.

Ishtar propped herself up on her arms and snarled at Midas and yelled, “THIS ISN’T FUNNY YOU FAT FUCK!”

“Oh-ho, yes it is! Y’all went and got on my ass about losin’ to that girl! But now look at you! Ah may’ve lost an arm, but at least I have both of my legs! Hahahahaahahahah!” Midas stated as he continued to laugh.

Nihil rolled her eyes and walked over to Ishtar’s legs. She wrapped both ends of the severed limbs in her mist and then clenched her fist. The mist reduced until the parts that were cauterized by Witchblade’s flames were gone, of course, Ishtar growled with pain as she felt part of flesh being erased. However, doing so seemed to allow the crystals of her legs to reform.

“Dammit, Nihil, that hurt! Did you even know if that was going to work?!” Ishtar asked.

“Not really, but it seems so long as I can erase the parts of your flesh that was touched by Witchblade, then that means you can fully regenerate. That being the case…”

Nihil walked up to Midas, the golden demon tried to protest, but all that fell on deaf ears as Nihil wrapped the damaged parts with her mist and did the same thing to him as she did to Ishtar. Of course, Midas unleashed a slew of curses at the pain that radiated from the freshly reopened wound. Ishtar laughed, seeing how whiny Midas was.

“Bite me!” [/b]Midas spat.

“Ha, you’re not worth my time,” said Ishtar.

“Speaking of…” Nihil commanded her mist to wrap around Ishtar’s neck, hoisting her up in a noose and tightening. “I told you to leave that school to me, it is part of my plan that I am trying to enact, and I am very close to having the powder keg that is Canterlot High School blow up! Do you have anything to say for trying to step into my domain?”

Ishtar gagged but managed to get out, “I…I know who Witchblade is…! H-Her name…is…S-Sunset Shimmer!”

Nihil’s eyes widened and then narrowed back into slits, a ghost of a smile appeared on her face as she released Ishtar from her grasp. “Is she now? Well this is good, this is very good…” Nihil began to pace about, her strands of monochrome mist following her with each step. “It’s time to act, we’ll bring it all to a close very soon.”

The following day was hectic at best, for obvious reasons, Rarity, Fluttershy, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash’s names were kept off the record of people who were in attendance at the Ishtar Club, and after getting the story that Rainbow Dash was being mind controlled by Ishtar and forced to gather the girls there, it made it easy to cover up. However, Rainbow Dash had to come clean her parents about how she was taken control of in the first place. They got mad at her, one for going to some place like that, and secondly for not telling them about it. Yes she was a legal teen and all that, but they would’ve rather known where they’re daughter was so that they wouldn’t worry. Needless to say, Rainbow Dash swore she wouldn’t keep something like that from her parents again.

About the one thing that didn’t have any answers, was Fluttershy’s strange combat abilities. She knew how to fight, really well, like a trained soldier or combat specialist, not only that, but she released a strange light. Sunset told her that the Witchblade believed it was divine light, Fluttershy did confess that she was praying to God to help her in their hour of need. Fluttershy thought that maybe her prayers were answered, and that God was working through her to help save her friends, but…something deeper inside Fluttershy told her that that wasn’t the case. She believed the light was divine and connected to God, but she didn’t feel like a conduit, more like the source.

When Fluttershy was able to get away from her worried parents, she went to the church had a sort of prayer meditation, hoping that the answers would come to her.

“Suga, you look kinda rattled, you alright?” Sister Meadowbrook asked

Fluttershy ended her prayer and sat back down in the pew. “I…Sister, I know we’re all God’s children, and we’re all special in our own way to Him. But…something…happened recently that makes me think that I’m…” Fluttershy scoffed. “I really hate to think this of myself but…I felt that there was something more special about me. I learned that I have a connection to some power, but then last night…”

Sister Meadowbrook brought her finger to rest on Fluttershy’s lips and said, “Shh…come with me, my child.”

Fluttershy didn’t know what was wrong, but she followed Sister Meadowbrook as she took her into the back of the church. Down an old flight of stairs and into the basement, a number of old things were down there, the church that Fluttershy visited was one of the older ones, and therefore had a lot of old things from back in the old days of the city’s upbringing.

“Tell me, Fluttershy, did you feel a kind of…divineness from this power?”

“Yes, it…well, for reasons I’m not allowed to say, I somehow came face to face with one of those demons! Many of them…”

Sister Meadowbrook raised a concerned eyebrow.

“I…I fought several of them, with…with moves that I’ve only seen in movies, but never in a million years could imitate. The only two of my friends who could attempt to do half of what I did, are Rainbow Dash and Sunset Shimmer, but even then, what I did was…it was if I’ve done it all my life! And then when the biggest of the demons appeared, I prayed to God to help me, and then my hands shined with this blinding light that burned the demon!”

During the time that Fluttershy was talking, Meadowbrook had a concerned look on her face that was only growing with each word spoken.

“Sister…what’s happened to me? Is this God answering me or…something else?” Flutteshy asked.

Sister Meadowbrook looked upon the young girl, she could see a deep wanting in her eyes, she needed answers and she was looking to Meadowbrook to at the very least point her in the right direction. “Fluttershy, what I’m about to tell you may be hard to grasp at first, but you know I’d never lie to you. Also, when I’m done telling you, there’s a choice you’re going to have to make.”

Two days passed since the incident, Fluttershy hadn’t been seen around school in that time. Only Principal Celestia knew about the incident that occurred at the warehouse district, thanks to Shining Armor, and was resolved to allow Fluttershy some time off to rest from such an ordeal and passed her absence off as being sick. The rest of the girls attended school, but with the air now cleared.

Rainbow Dash apologized to all her friends, and Cloud Kicker was right next to her doing the same. She felt wholly responsible for getting Rainbow Dash mixed up in that, and if she hadn’t, none of them would’ve had to have suffered through that. Thankfully, Cloud Kicker didn’t seem to remember that Sunset was Witchblade, just that she blacked out when Sunset was about to punch out Fleur de Lis.

That was another thing, Sunset gave a tip to Shining Armor about Fleur de Lis. He followed up on it and went to see her family, but just as expected, she wasn’t anywhere to be found. They filed a missing person’s report, but with the girl being rich and a legal adult, they couldn’t really do much, but Shining Armor assured them that they’d find her, if only because she was really Ishtar and responsible for a lot of murders.

Another thing that came to pass was now Rainbow Dash knew that Sunset was Witchblade, she once again apologized for everything, for her behavior with Anon-A-Miss, and for what she did in the nurse’s office, something that was not going to go away for a good while thanks to the immortality that is the internet and viral videos. Sunset had made a comment to Rainbow Dash about finding Witchblade Sunset hot and if she wanted a shot at her? Pinkie Pie immediately got between them proclaimed, “Oh no, Sunny’s buns are mine!”

They had a good laugh all around. Now was the second day, a Wednesday, hump day as it was called. Sunset was dropped off by Celestia and began her walk towards the front of CHS, outside, around the Wondercolt statue, Rarity, Pinkie, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash were waiting for her.

Sunset felt happy, for the first time since this whole Anon-A-Miss mess started. Sure, even right now, she was still getting some scornful leers from the other CHS students, as well as confused looks as to why those four were hanging around her, when it was the five who Anon-A-Miss first started her rampage on. It didn’t matter, the mere fact that they were together again meant that Anon-A-Miss’s power was about to fade.

With Shining Armor’s friend looking into it, it’s only a matter of time. And now, I have my friends back, you lost, Anon-A-Miss, you fucking lost! Sunset thought with glee.

The bell rang, signaling that it was time to head in and get to class. The students began to flood in towards the entrance. Sunset and the girls followed suit, however, Sunset noticed something amiss. One of the students, wearing a gray hoody, black pants, and a white backpack, was walking against the crowd, their hood was up, their face was obscured by shadows and made it hard for her to tell who it was.

The girl, at least she assumed from the…ahem, slight curve around her chest, accidentally bumped into Sunset. Sunset made an “oomph” sound and said, “Sorry.”

“Not a problem…Witchblade…”

Sunset paused as the girl walked past her, she recognized that voice, she knew who it was.

}}} SUNSET, TRANSFORM NOW! {{{

“Wha–?”

*BANG!*

A gunshot, it rang so loud and clear that everyone stopped in their tracks. Students who were close to the windows had ducked while the teachers braved to look outside to see where the danger was. The students who had not entered the school and were still on the quad, all hit the ground, those students who were on the steps were frozen in fear. But for four girls, all they could do was look on in horror.

Sunset felt something warm flowing from around her stomach. She looked down and saw that her teal shirt was stained red with blood. The former unicorn managed to turn around and see that it was the girl from earlier. A slight glint of red shined under the hoody for a brief second, no, this wasn’t a girl, it was her, Nihil.

“This is what you get, Anon-A-Miss!!!”

Nihil fired four more shots, hitting Sunset in the chest, the third bullet pierced her heart and made her spit up blood, while the fourth hit her in the head. Sunset fell backwards onto the stairs, blood poured down the steps and stained the snow that had collected around them. Rarity, Pinkie, Applejack, and Rainbow could only stare at the scene, their voices having been stolen as their minds tried to process what they saw.

Pinkie Pie fell to her knees before Sunset’s body, her mouth quivering as her trembling hands reached out towards her girlfriend, this had to be a dream, there was no way Sunset was taken away from her again. And that’s when everyone heard the second most terrifying noise, the screams of one who had lost her love.

Author's Note

Case Ongoing