I am Captain Jack Sparrow, savvy?

Celestia takes another drink from her teacup and sighs as she starts the next bit of the story, saying, "After I returned to Canterlot from my 'captivity' on the Black Pearl, I made sure to take my rings off and ran the chain of my locket through them both and put it back around my neck. I never ever went anywhere without it around my neck, and I still don't. Anyways, Summer asked me if I was mad with just a single word, which was 'mad' but I told her that I was just missing her father and that I wanted to be anywhere but in Canterlot. So, after I gave a speech explaining with a partial lie about the situation with me not being Summer's mother to the citizens of Canterlot overjoyed at my return, I went inside and went back to my royal doodies."

She hears Pinkie giggle snort a few times at her word choice and smiles before continuing the story for a bit then saying, "Then when a month had passed, I took a vacation which only I knew that I was actually going to the Black Pearl with all I learned about several of the nobles' dealings. As soon as I got out and tried to get information about our honeymoon, Jack refused to give any. When Summer saw him, she immediately started crying while reaching for him. As he took her, he grinned saying he would begin to potty train her so he wouldn't have to change her diapers anymore. He then told Summer he would remember that so that when she became a teen and started looking for a boyfriend, he could embarrass her in front of him. When she heard that, she made the biggest and cutest puppy dog eyes ever and begged him for mercy saying, No papa! Oh it was so adorable to watch Jack try to fight against it and fail, resulting in him relenting to only embarrass her in front of her friends if she teased him too much.

Rarity scoffs and huffs, saying, "Oh darling, what a cruel thing to do to such an adorable young filly!"

Celestia smirks at Rarity then says, "In his defense, do you know how many of her diapers he has changed?"

She blinks and stares at the princess for a moment in disbelief before saying with a soft glare, "It doesn't matter if he changed a billion of her diapers, you should never go to such measures just to get even with your own flesh and blood!"

The princess giggles and says, "Well, we will just have to agree to disagree on that, because he changed every single one of her diapers until our stay in Canterlot." She then returns to the story saying, "Most honeymoons begin right after the wedding, but ours started later because the first three months on the ship were spent with him training me to fight. When I asked him what he thought of my progress, he said I was learning quickly and was as good as his first mate. But then he asked me out of the blue if I could bring myself to take a life belonging to one of my beloved subjects if it meant that I got to live. I asked him how he could even ask me that, so I said that I was a princess and didn't know if I could handle taking one's life even then. Then he said to me that is something that shouldn't be asked, and that being a pirate meant that if you wanted something which wasn't yours, you would most likely have to fight someone to get it. He also said that taking a life would definitely change you, because it isn't something that should be taken lightly without a good enough reason."

Twilight looks at her mentor like she just grew a second head and says, "But there is never a good reason to kill someone, there is always a way to fix the problem and make friendship succeed."

Celestia looks at Twilight with a sweet smile and says in a gentle tone, "That is true for the way things are now Twilight, but back then...things were...a little different." She then returns to the story saying, "I then asked him if that meant it would be okay to kill someone to return to my little girl. He confirmed that telling me it would if it could not be avoided, but it would be great if I could find a way to avoid such situations. He gave me a good piece of advice, if I remember right he said, 'Life's greatest gift is the choice, the chance to choose your own actions and path to follow in life. What are you trying to achieve, and why are you trying to achieve it? What purpose does it serve? Decide on a goal in life and formulate a plan to achieve said goal, improvise for it if you must'"

She then takes another sip from her tea and discovers that it is empty already and sighs, then wonders if she has anything stronger to drink. Remembering about some alcoholic spiked cider she has stashed away, she smiles and summons the jug in front of her saying, "I know it isn't Hearth's Warming, but I need this for the story ahead."

Luna watches her sister pour some of the spiked cider into the teacup, returns the cork to the bottle and then sets it on the side table. Her eyes widen as she sees her sister swirl the cider around the cup, bringing it up to her nose and taking a deep whiff of it sighing before saying, "This is very delicious, but I miss the rum from the old days."

With one smooth motion, Celestia brings the cup up to her lips and shoots it back like the teacup was a shot glass, shocking them all for a moment or two before letting out a pleased sigh saying, "Now back to the story... He then asked me about the nobles' dealings and how I thought of them with Equestria's best interests in mind, if I would spare the lives of those involved or condemn them. I told him that it would depend on their response to my request. If they would willingly surrender their life of crime, they would spend some time in the Canterlot dungeon. However, if they refused to surrender, I would deal with them rather harshly. With that answer, he welcomed me to the crew and told me what we were doing for our honeymoon which started right then."

Fluttershy nervously asks in her soft voice while wringing her hands together, "Uhm...so...did you ever have to take anyone's life, Princess Celestia?"

She refills the empty cup with the jug and returns the cork once more, but sips at it instead of shooting it back, looking at Fluttershy with a sad look on her face saying, "Unfortunately, yes I did. Though quite a few we fought did surrender, which were held in the brig for a time until a chariot came to take them away."

The shy pony smiles, not knowing what to say for a bit before saying, "Oh, well at least you were nice enough to give them the chance."

Celestia then smiles back at her before telling them of the first few years of her life spent going back and forth from the Black Pearl to Canterlot saying, "As soon as Summer learned to walk, she nearly gave Jack and I heart attacks on a regular basis whenever she nearly walked off the edge of the ship. That changed though when I modified a shield to cover the sides of the ship, because we started having one of the crew, me, or Jack looking after her. Whenever we went pirating, I would leave her inside the cabin with a protective sound-proof barrier around her. Sometimes I would stay with her if the ship we were after had cannons on board, which surprisingly, many did."

She then takes a little bigger drink from the cup, then sets the cup down saying, "She must have watched the crew as they worked the two cannons in the cabin, because one day I was up in the crow's nest looking for ships when I heard one of the cannons fire. I looked down and saw the smoke near the back of the ship, so I jumped off and flew down to the ship from the crow's nest. Scared for my little filly, I hurried inside the cabin to check on her. I found the port-side gunport door mostly missing with smoke rolling from the barrel of the cannon, and Summer was on the other side of the cabin with her hands over her ears while a botefeux, which is the pole or stick that's used to ignite the fuse, was laying on the floor smoldering. When Jack got there and saw what she did, he got really mad and grabbed a broken piece of wood to spank her with it. After that, he instructed the crews to unload the cannons after every engagement. During the times we were in Canterlot, the clever little filly would find a way to escape her foal sitter and find her way into the throne room. I would also find the time to take her on flights around Canterlot in my arms or on my shoulders, I would also take her around the city to get candy.

Luna smiles and says, "Sounds like she was a troublesome little filly, perhaps one day I might get the chance to experience motherhood. I look forward to finding the right stallion..."

Surprised by what her sister said, Celestia looks at Luna with wide eyes briefly before smiling and saying, "I look forward to becoming an aunt as well, perhaps I can try to help you find your special somepony." She then turns away after sharing a pleasant smile with Luna and continues her story saying, "Then a few months later, I was on the ship overseeing the loading and unloading of supplies while Jack held Summer's hand and took her to Portuga for the first time. He told me later that he got her some candy while he offloaded some of the supplies we looted from our recent targets, then he went to the tavern and gave her cider while he enjoyed a bottle of rum as well as a game of Liar's Dice."

Pinkie Pie giggles and then says, "Wowie, I haven't played that game in a LONG while, and it has been around for like...ever!"

Celestia chuckles and smiles saying, "It has been around for awhile, did you know that the game came from the world Jack came from? It was he that first introduced it to us after all..." She then chuckles again and continues the story, saying, "On her third birthday, I got her a small dollhouse, some dresses, and of course her favorite candy which was striped peppermint sticks. Jack had got her a small hat, a frilly shirt, a pair of colt's breeches, and a wooden sword, which she absolutely went nuts for. I still wish that she would have been a bit more girly..."

Applejack cocks her head and then nervously asks, "Umm, forgive me Princess Celestia, but did you say would have? Does that mean something happened to her?"

A tear worms its way from her cheek as she tries to blink away the memory saying, "I-I will get to that part, Applejack." She then finishes off what is left in her cup before refilling it and continues the story with a sigh, saying, "As we enjoyed our time together, three years passed in the blink of an eye. However, things began to slowly change after we went through a hurricane in the southern part of the Celestial Seas. After making it through it, we looked over the ship for damages. Finding that the ship had a month's worth of damages including needing a new Foremast, I expressed my sadness for what happened during our last diaper raid on the Storm King's Realm. When our daughter finally learned how to use the toilet by the time she turned two, we paid another visit to the Storm King's Realm for our last diaper raid. During a heavy thunderstorm, someone must have put the diapers on top of a mostly empty box of cannonballs because when the cannons were reloading, in a brief lull of silence...we heard something heavy collapse. Shortly after that, Jack ordered the cannons to be stowed and the sails to be unfurled. Several days later, I received a report from my assistant saying that the Storm King's wife was killed after a stone column collapsed after being struck by a cannonball during a heavy thunderstorm. With Jack's help, it took me the better part of two years to recover from the guilt."

Celestia then shakes her head and half-chuckles saying, "Sorry, back to the story, "Once we got back to port, a couple of weeks passed by as we waited for repairs when I asked Jack if we could visit Grandmama just once to introduce Summer to her. He then grumbled and asked if he'd agree to take us to see the seawitch, would I stop asking, which I did. I then tried to entice him by saying if he would feel glad about seeing Grandmama for Summer, I would do a certain something he liked. After he heard that, he smiled widely, overjoyed at what I would do for him, and promptly accepted my offer."

Twilight then looks at Celestia curiously and asks, "Forgive my curiosity, Princess Celestia, but what was it you offered to do for him?"

She turned her head away in embarrassment and clicked her tongue saying, "I was really hoping none of you would ask that..." but she then groans and looks back at the group with a heavy blush on her face and says, "I offered to...do a dance on a pole I learned during one of our many trips across the seas to Saddle Arabia."

The injured alicorn's eyes go wide with realization as she then says, "OH..."

Rarity gasps as she then understands what Twilight just figured out and says, "Y-You learned how to pole dance like those floosies do at strip clubs!?!"

Celestia then glares daggers at Rarity and narrows her eyes asking, "Are you calling me a floosie?"

The fashionista starts sweating profusely as she quickly backpedals away, then runs into the wall as she scrambles to think of something to say, saying in a panic, "OH OFOFOF C-COURSE N-N-NO-NOT P-P-PRINCESS C-C-CELESTIA!! I-I-I WOULD NEVER DO SUCH A THING, I SWEAR ON MY MANE AND TAIL! I SH-SHOULD HA-HAVE WORDED THAT BETTER!"

Applejack giggles behind her hand at how Rarity is acting and says, "Eeyup, you should have thought that over much more carefully Rare."

The princess then huffs in annoyance at Rarity's poor choice of words and then continues the story saying, "So we started to make our way to Grandmama's manor as he called her the wicked witch of the east and a cantankerous old bat that was nearly as old as I was at the time. I am not sure when, but Jack mentioned he helped Lyrupa, the griffon princess find work as Grandmama's assistant. It was a touching and heartfelt reunion coming mostly from Grandmama as Jack still disliked her, explaining that she had me to thank for bringing him to her. In response to that, she looked over to me and saw the two rings on my left hand, which caused her to hurry up to me and gives the rings a rapid succession of kisses before stopping and thanking me repeatedly for letting her see her grandson and his family again. I learned earlier that she had a particular way of showing her affection toward others through violence, so while rubbing her back affectionately, I warned her that I would not tolerate it anymore towards my husband or my daughter. If she continued to show her affection in that manner, I would have no choice but to punish her by keeping our family away from her. Then Jack explained to her how the magic of our world works, that it only brings buried emotions to the surface, and doesn't create new emotions within you. After that, she hugged Jack again and apologized for her actions, then he expressed his worry about any more of his dysfunctional family coming to our world and possibly threatening its safety. I then introduced Summer to her, which after she introduced herself to her, he told Summer she could just call her nana or wicked witch, which earned him a brief glare from Grandmama. When Summer ran up to her and hugged her, I saw Jack put his hand on his pistol and thought he would draw it, but to my surprise, he didn't."

Applejack smiles at hearing that and sighs happily saying, "That right there is a happy reunion between a separated family."

Celestia smiles and lets her eyes drift to the floor a moment in thought saying, "It was and we did spend holidays together for several years, however, a few days after we introduced Summer to her and let her be a part of our family again...Something scary happened that changed our lives forever. I heard about this from Jack after it happened, but in the night while Jack and I were sleeping, Galanda boarded the Black Pearl unseen as a heavy fog had covered the port. She slipped into the cabin while Summer was still awake, reading a book when she should have been sleeping, and knocked her out. When Jack awoke, he saw that she was not in her bed and looked all over the ship for her. Finding it odd that she wasn't on the ship, he checked the cabin again to see if she was hiding in there when he lit a couple of candles and saw the letter and a strangely familiar blood-stained feather inside the book Grandmama gave her. After he took the feather and finally remembered where he saw it last, he pulled out the letter and got dressed, then left the cabin. He went into the sleeping port town to meet up with Summer's abductor and stood in the light of a torch as he was greeted by Galanda holding onto Summer with a nullifying ring on her horn and then asking how he wanted to pay his blood debt...with his blood or hers, then she drew her sword and raised it to her neck. After trying to placate her anger by raising his hands, he offered to satisfy the debt by giving her a child through intimate means. She then rejected the offer outright angrily saying, 'You actually think I want your disgusting body to get that close to mine?! You ruined my whole family, and destroyed any possibility we will have to achieve a happy future! I do not want to bear any of your children to satisfy this debt...so decide how you are going to pay.' then asked him again if it would be with his blood or hers. As Jack looked at her crying face, he told her to take his because he should have died many times before. Then said how he took life for granted way too long and had learned something valuable that she wouldn't understand, so he kept it to himself...even when I asked what it was later. She must have been shocked by that because her mouth fell open for a moment before lowering her sword from Summer's neck and telling him to step forward to accept his fate before shoving her to the side. Jack watched Galanda as she drew her sword back to stab him when Summer suddenly rushed toward the griffon. She laughed as Summer grabbed her and then kicked her away while telling her to get off, calling her a stupid filly because her father decided to save her life. She then told her to be thankful or she would kill her for trying to stop her. Galanda then noticed something the filly had because she asked what it was that she had there, making Jack curious as well. When he looked at his daughter, he saw her trying to pull the flint striker back on the griffon's pistol. As Galanda reached to take the pistol from her, Jack started to hurry toward his daughter when he heard it cock back while telling her not to touch that because it was dangerous. Then he saw her raising the pistol toward her, placing her finger on the trigger and attempting to pull it, making him panic and begin to say don't pull on that. He only managed to say, no darling, don't before he was cut off by the pistol when it fired, which caused Summer's arms to fly back as the pistol flew out of her grip. Galanda was shot in the head, which made a pretty gruesome fountain of gore. Her body then fell forward onto Summer, which Jack quickly rolled it off to see if she was okay. As the blood started to pool around Summer, he pulled the gag from her mouth and untied her hands. Able to speak again, Summer asked if he was mad because she saved him from the mean griffon. He then picked her up in his left arm, telling her he wasn't mad, though he was thankful for her saving him. He then told her that she was getting a little too big to be carried like that, but due to her experience, he would carry her home that way. I learned later to my dismay, that he promised to teach her how to fight with a sword to protect herself from others with ill intent. I woke up with a start when I heard a pistol fire and looked around the cabin to see Jack and Summer both gone, I then started looking all over the ship for them and even checked under the beds. I was about to leave the ship to go fly over to Grandmama to have her send out search parties for her when they walked in through the cabin door with blood in Summer's coat and mane. Worried sick, I then shouted at him in the royal voice, asking what happened and why there was blood in our daughter's mane and coat. He then asked if I wanted the long version or the short version, and I picked the long one which led to us getting into our first big fight." She then tells them about the fight, and that her daughter learned how to use the royal voice which she used to make them stop fighting.

Taking a drink from her cup, Celestia fills it back up again and groans saying, "If I didn't get grey hairs in my mane and tail, I most certainly got them after she began climbing up the ropes. When she learned to swim, she would tie a rope off the side rail of the ship and let it drag into the water before climbing onto either the crow's nest's railing or the mainyard of the topgallant sail on the mainmast and then jump from it into the sea. When she was somewhere around twelve or thirteen...oh me...she would climb to the top of the fore or aft masts and then climb the ropes tying them together at the very top, hand over hand 40 or 60 feet above the deck. When she reached sixteen, she started swinging around on ropes from yard to yard. I blame her father for every single strand of grey hairs I've got in my mane and tail..."

Luna then listens as her sister gets back to the main story, about how Celestia and Summer continued spending their time going back and forth between the Black Pearl and Canterlot. She is shocked to see her sister empty the cup and set it aside with a sad sigh before taking the bottle and tipping it back, taking a few large gulps down. Worried for her sister, she says, "Perhaps you should take it easy on that Cece, that spiked cider is pretty strong."

She looks at her sister with eyes full of anguish, and hate before saying, "For what's to come, this 'liquid courage' will help keep me from falling apart as I did a few nights ago." With a warm sensation building in her belly as the alcohol finally kicks in, she then sighs and looks at the group saying, "It all started to fall apart two years and a few months after Summer's kidnapping... After Summer and I returned from spending a month or two in Canterlot, I noticed different bedding on our bed in the cabin and asked why he changed the bedding. He then told me that it became infested from not being washed after so long, which I sighed and accepted it while saying it was unfortunate to happen to my favorite bedding. He then looked at his compass briefly when a gust of wind blew across the deck and asked me to join him on a week-long trip. I then asked him where we were going when our daughter spoke up, all excited about going on an adventure. Then Jack told her there weren't going to be any villains to fight on this journey, but she wasn't allowed to come with us because where we were going...curses really did exist. When I heard him say those words, I gasped and told Summer to go catch up with the crew. After she left, I stared at him with narrowed eyes and asked if he was insane telling him he told me how wicked that gold was and how he feared it. I then asked him why must we go there of all places, and he confirmed how he feared it, but it was part of his grand scheme to save Luna. He then asked me to go along with it, promising me that it would work out in the end."

Hoping that her sister didn't do what she is thinking, she says, "Cece, please tell me you didn't..." She gets her answer as Celestia just looks away with a shameful look on her face, giving her a slow nod.

Celestia then lifts her head up to look at the group to continue her story, and says, "I agreed with his plan, I was desperate to get my sister back, so what was I supposed to do?"

Luna walks up and hugs her sister as she breaks down a little and cries into her shoulder saying, "I'm so sorry, but I didn't know what else to do! Please forgive me Lulu!" She then moves her right hand to the back of her head while her left pats her gently on the back above the wings in a comforting manner saying, "It is alright sister, I am not disappointed, upset, or even mad at you for trying so hard to bring me back."

It takes a few moments for the sobbing sister to calm down enough to continue the story, returning to her seat saying, "So sorry about my behavior everypony, let's get back to the story, shall we?"

Everypony smiles and tell her that it is alright for her to be upset about things that hurt her inside, and it makes the pain go away a little when talking about it.

Celestia smiles and then looks at them saying, "Now then, where were we... Right. We set off for Horseshoe Bay where we fit the entire crew onto the longboats minus the cook who Jack had decided it would be best for the current part of the plan to him off with fair pay so he could make a home for his wife and child. When I asked him what this part of his plan entails, which his response was that I would see. I just needed to have a little patience and everything will be made clear...eventually...and to think like him whatever that means because I still haven't figured that part out!"

Rainbow listens as she continues telling the story leading up to where they all made their way into the secret vault, finding herself leaning forward in anticipation hearing the princess repeat Jack's speech word for word saying, "For a pirate, we do whatever we must to achieve our goals...no price is too high, except when it involves this accursed treasure. But alas, I have no choice in the matter as it seems to be my destiny to suffer. I have no right in asking this of any of you...but...would you all join me in enduring this punishment and show this world what pirates really are and why we are so feared?"

She lifts the bottle to her lips again, taking a few more gulps and swallowing before saying, "And then I watched as Gibbs told Jack he agreed to join him in the suffering, for his schemes had a knack for working out for the better. Gibbs then helped Jack to push the lid off the chest, leaving it to fall to the side as Jack was the first one to take a coin from the chest of cursed gold. As Gibbs took the next piece, the rest of the crew took a coin for themselves. The last one to take a coin...was me, or so I believed. So, with trembling hands, I reached in and took a coin from the chest. I grasped it gingerly and winced, expecting to feel some pain or agony..." then looks around the room to see every one of them leaning forward expectantly and continues on without pausing for a moment, "until suddenly..." leaving the end of the sentence hanging in the air for added effect while leaning forward herself slightly as she stretches her arms out wide, then suddenly brings them together with a loud clap shouting, "BOOM!"

Everyone in the group yelp with surprise as Rainbow falls forward, but quickly stands back up and joins everyone in asking what happened.

Celestia laughs at getting them all saying, "I apologize for that everyone, but I saw you all leaning forward and couldn't resist the temptation of startling you." She then adopts a more serious and somber tone and continues, "The truth, is that nothing happened, which confused me. So when I asked Jack about it, he said that the treasure makes others suffer in other ways. What he said next shocked me speechless...he gave Hector a choice."

Twilight then looks at the princess curiously and asks, "Uhmm...Princess Celestia, what ch-choice did he give to Barbossa?"

She then sighs grimly and says, "I didn't catch everything, but he told him if he wanted to, he could either come with us or remain here and watch over the treasure. But Barbossa chose to remain behind, asking that we leave the key with him. So then we walked out of the vault, Jack locked the door since he was the last one to leave, he then tossed the key to Hector and the rest of us walked away as Jack wished and urged him to do whatever he could to maintain his sanity."

Taking a few moments before returning to the story, she swirls the last bit of Spiked Cider in the bottom of the bottle before raising it to her lips and draining the last bit into her mouth. Celestia then swallows it down and sets the bottle behind her with a sigh saying, "I just hope that is enough to keep me together when I finish this tale... Anyway, it took a year for my cursed form to gradually appear, my mane and tail were made of fire. My eyes changed to yellow with slitted pupils and black irises. There were two fangs hanging down over my lower lip, and my cutie mark was surrounded by orange and yellow flames." She then looks at Twilight and says, "I do believe you met my alter ego Twilight, you called her Daybreaker in one of your letters after Starlight attempted to change the past."

Twilight looks at her curiously and says, "Princess Celestia, do you mean you actually became the crazy, ego-driven Daybreaker?"

Celestia shakes her head and says, "Just on the outside because of the curse, I was still me on the inside though my personality may have been cursed as well. Jack found my new appearance fiendishly hot, and he immediately asked me if I was ready to become a pirate. When I asked what our first target would be, he said we shall begin targeting merchant ships. I heard that and chuckled, finding the idea of attacking the helpless rather entertaining." She then looks away in shame as she continues while looking at the floor, "Every ship we attacked, we were totally ruthless and left only one survivor. My daughter never joined in the fighting, she instead grabbed all the food available on the ship. When we finished attacking a ship and I wanted some alone time with Jack, I would refer to our daughter as brat and tell her to go outside and do something. Sometimes I would yell at her in anger, which she would start sobbing and run away from me saying she was sorry and called me mama. As we continued to raid merchant vessels for a few years, I then found myself pregnant once more."

Fluttershy watches Princess Celestia as her body begins to tremble as she hears her continue the story while her voice starts to get shaky saying, "A year and two months went by and I gave birth to twins..." then Celestia's voice gets softer as she says, "both were stillborn." She then starts to make her way towards Celestia to give her a hug and show her kindness.

The princess sees Fluttershy making her way around the group toward her quickly, but holds up her right hand saying, "Please stop there Fluttershy, I know you want to show me affection, all of you do. Just not now, I need to get through the rest of this story because if I start crying now, I don't know if I will be able to stop for a while." Mustering what strength she has left, she then says, "I'm sorry everypony, but I am going to push through this with as few breaks as possible, so I won't answer any questions until later."

With one last steadying breath, she starts to push through the story saying, "Once the filly and colt were born, I didn't hear them crying and asked what was wrong. The doctor was stunned, terrified, and confused about it too. As he stammered while trying to explain it, I got impatient and demanded him to hurry and spit it out. He then managed to say he didn't understand because I did so well, so I flung him aside with my magic and brought the foals to me. I cradled them in my arms and tried to jostle them awake, looking at them trying to tell one to open their eyes and the other not to sleep so long. As I resorted to licking them and talking louder, Jack drew his sword and put it to the doctor's throat threatening him into telling him what he did. He tried to convince Jack saying he did nothing at all, that he monitored my pregnancy closely and that they were both healthy, and that he just didn't understand why they were born dead. He then tried to beg him not to kill him, but then I began to wail over their loss. After a few moments, my mind broke from the trauma and I went off the deep end. The next thing I did was turn my attention to the doctor as my grief transformed into anger as I glared at him in rage. Blaming him for the loss of my foals, I shouted how dare he take my foals from me, that he was responsible for all of this misery and that he will pay the price. I then cast a spell immediately after saying that to him, which would make his insides boil. He then started to try to profess his innocence when he started to scream out in agony, then Jack drew his cutlass and stabbed him through the gut and whispered something into his ear which I couldn't hear. I held my foals in my arms and began chuckling when the doctor stopped screaming, then I watched him fall to the floor lifelessly with a smile as I turned to look at my beloved husband and suggested we would make all ponies pay for the deaths of our foals. I then asked what he thought about that, which he agreed and said our first target would be Manetown, and we would strike in the dead of night when the moon was full and at its highest. I don't know why, but I don't remember where Jack and I buried them. A month had passed as we sailed into the sleeping port of Manetown under a cloudless night sky with a full moon above, engulfed by a heavy bank of fog that always follow wherever the ship went. As I stood beside Jack at the back of the ship to watch the attack, the Black Pearl turned its port-side cannons to the unused fort that watched over the town and Jack gave the order to begin firing upon it. I flew up into the air and watched as the fort's defenses were quickly destroyed, and I wanted to take advantage of the moment to wreak a little havoc of my own. So I cast a few balls of flame at some of the fort's walls, grinning as I watched the flame start to spread when a large explosion destroyed any buildings left inside of the fort. A commotion coming from the town caught my attention, then a thought came to my mind which brought a manic smile to my face so I flew down to my husband and suggested he have a little fun with the curious villagers. So he had the crew turn the ship with the sweeps and began to fire on the town, causing the ponies to shriek and panic. Some were brave enough to turn and fight the ship using their magic or try to get to their ships to try to board the Black Pearl. I then flew higher into the sky, watching as the ponies trying to defend their town were swiftly dealt with when the two fishing boats in the harbor started to burn wildly and sink. I then cackled maniacally and used the royal voice to shout, 'all of you shall learn to fear the might of the Black Pearl. I heard Jack give the order for the crew to raid, pillage, and plunder their weasely black guts out, and loot everything of value before burning a building to the ground for there was no army to fear here. I turned my head to watch the crew depart the ship, some of them departed in the longboats while others jumped off the side of the ships to walk towards the town. Minutes passed as new screams of terror filled the air when the laughter of the crew started to mix in with it, I could hear the smashing of windows and doors from the sky as they looted buildings. The crew started fires that spread through the town, causing the night sky to brighten with the orange light. I listened as the ponies screamed about zombies and the end of the world, cackling with glee at their misery until one small voice screaming for her mother to get up because monsters were coming irritated me. I then raced toward the filly to shut her up and watched her as she was by her mother's side which her body was crushed underneath a fallen beam, pulling on her arm when it pulled free and sent the filly to the ground on her back. When the arm landed ontop of her, the filly pushed it off and slowly realized that it was her mother's arm, causing her to scream and cry out an apology for hurting her."

Celestia then looks up at them with tears flowing down her cheeks as she says, "I don't know why, but something about seeing that brought me out of my insane state of mind. It made me want to cry for the filly's loss, as the feeling grew too painful to bear, I heard something crack and raced forth to scoop her up into my arms. I set her outside the city and told her to find a caring family to take her in and live a life away from fearful things, then I hurried back to the ship to cry over what has happened. When Jack saw me hurrying back and asked if something happened, I told him that nothing was wrong and that I was not feeling well. So I hurried into the cabin and closed the door, only to hear sobbing coming from inside the cabin. I lit a candle and found my daughter hungrily devouring an apple, then asked her why she was crying while she was eating a delicious apple. My daughter sat facing the corner and tossed the apple across the room and spat something into her hand and sobbed saying that she is so hungry, but no matter how much she ate, it didn't sate her hunger...then she moved her hand behind her to show me what was in it, opening her fist to reveal ash adding and turns into this when I take a bite. I gasped when I saw the grey blob in her palm and thought of it as a joke and said that she couldn't eat ash and to try a fresh apple. She then sighed and grabbed a fresh apple from the desk and then faced me. I watched as she lifted it to her mouth and bit into it, then chewed a few times before spitting it back into her palm. I looked down at her palm and saw ash when she asked if I saw that, then told me that it turns to ash as she said and that she should have died years ago from starvation. After telling me that she tried literally every kind of food or drink she could find, even drinking a whole bottle of Jack's potent rum didn't do anything which would normally kill a pony her age, she threw her hands over her eyes and started crying again. It was right then I realized what was affecting her and went to her side then sat beside her, hugging her as I told her not to worry because I suffered it too, but knew how to deal with it. After she asked what it was, I sighed and told her that a bit of blood was all that was needed. I also told her how cross I was with her for taking one of those coins, and that she was going to be grounded for a while. When I crawled into her bed first, she snuggled up against me when I asked how she managed to get into the vault after we locked it. She then told me that she had snuck into the water and hung off the back of one of the longboats, then followed us right in, snuck around the crew members when they took their own coins and walked away. After I took my coin, she grabbed hers while the crew stood around in silence and snuck out before we started making our way out of the room. She then kept out of sight until we returned to the rowboats and hitched a ride hanging from the back of one of the longboats again, climbing in through the back window of the cabin to change clothes before we returned to the cabin.