Proper Evil's Return

“Whenever he tries to manipulate anypony somepony else talks to him. He can’t manipulate everypony at once after all.” Rainbow Dash said as she looked at the faces of her fellow ponies, with a sigh Twilight spoke up.

“It’s worth a shot.” With that, she and the rest of the ponies walked back into the room.

Evalin had gotten up sometime during their talk and had taken to inspecting the room. Currently, he was strolling along the bookshelves staring at each spine for a few moments, if he heard the six-element bearer’s conversation he didn’t do anything to tip it off. Nor did he do anything to acknowledge whether or not he could hear their hooves clacking against the floor. He didn’t even turn to acknowledge the group until Twilight spoke. Her voice was still a little shaky but it was far more like normal than before. “I want you to understand a few things Evalen,” Twilight said with a glare to make her seem more intimidating.

“In.” He said over his shoulder, much to the confusion of the six ponies behind him.

“What?” Twilight asked with all of her confidence leaving her.

“My name is Evalin, not Evalen, you may now continue your pointless and pathetic attempt to intimidate me.” Evalin said in an almost monotone voice, although Twilight could feel the smirk on his face despite not being able to see it. She cleared her voice and tried to salvage her courage.

“While you are here you will obey my rules and you will not try to manipulate anypony anymore.” She said this hoping to get a reaction out of him which she succeeded in doing. Evalin gave a low chuckle before he spoke.

“You really are Celestia’s student aren’t you.” He shook his head as much as he could. Twilight was going to continue her conversation but she picked up on one thing that didn’t add up to what she knew of Evalin.

“How did you know I was Celestia’s student, she never said anything to hint that I was her student?” Twilight asked and for the second time since she met him, he had lost his composure. He practically froze in place as her words washed over him, his eyes twitched this way and that way trying desperately to find something to use to save himself from this situation.

“You must have mentioned it earlier, I am sure you did.” Was Evalin’s genius reply that made him want to slap himself.

“I’ll drop this for now but I want you to promise me a few things in exchange,” Twilight said with a small smile, after a few moments she continued. “I want you to promise not to hurt anypony, take anything, or manipulate anypony while you’re here.” She was confident but she didn’t think that he would do much other than laugh or insult them again.
“Alright, I promise.” To be honest these words were the absolute last ones that she was expecting him to say.