Love: Curses at Dusk

Cadence woke up to find her body completely mended up. She was very confused. How did it happen? She rubs her eyes with her hooves and turns to the side to find the tubes that were in her arm hanging on the side, and then she looks at her arm. No holes. No bleeding, no nothing. What happened last night? Then the news from yesterday hits her. The evil alicorn did this.

It all make sense now...I’m the evil alicorn! She thinks to herself. She calls for help but nopony answers her plead. She struggles to get out of bed and suddenly she hears loud galloping down the hall. It came from what seemed like two ponies. And it was two ponies: Tia and Luna. Cadence pleads again and they come barreling into her room.

“Cadence! Are you alright?!” Luna asks, coming over to check her. She notices the tubes hanging on the side of the bed and her body flinches. “What happened to you?!” Cadence shakes her head and tries to think more but her mind is full of fog. She suddenly snaps and with a hoarse voice, she cries out,

“The evil alicorn is me!” Tia shakes her head sternly, trying to object the thought of her own niece being evil. But it grasps her so hard she nearly plunges at Cadence again. But with Luna there, Luna creates a barrier of magic to block Tia away.

“Sister! She means it in a different way!” Luna yells. Tia “Oh!”’s and then backs away, apologizing once more to Cadence. “Cadence, what do you mean, you're the evil alicorn?” Cadence tries to think of her theory again and then her face lights up.

“Every night, my body turns evil and terrorizes the city! It all make sense!” Tia tries to think of a different theory but she tries to add more detail instead.

“So if your body is the evil alicorn, how can you stop it..?” She asks. Cadence shrugs her shoulders when more ponies seem to be galloping down the hall to her room. Twilight, Fluttershy, and Rarity come in and they cry out for Cadence.

“Princess Cadence, what happened?!” She asks quickly. However, Luna nods at Cadence and speaks for her herself. She says it in a defying tone that seems to scare everypony out of their wits.

“Dearest Twilight, Cadence is the evil alicorn. Whenever she goes to sleep the spirit takes over the body of her.” Twilight jumped back startled and Fluttershy simply lowers her head in fear. Rarity seems pretty neutral about it, but something seems weird that she isn’t too concerned.

“We have to help you, Cadence.” Twilight says sternly. Cadence nods and both Rarity and Twilight begin to think of some ideas.

“Maybe we can put you in some sort of coma?” Twilight asks.

“Or possibly we can watch over you at night when you sleep so she doesn’t escape?” Rarity replies.

“Or maybe we can use a spell so the spirit gets sucked out of you?” Twilight asks again.

“Girls, I um..have a better idea..” Fluttershy says softly under her pink mane, however, nopony can hear her.

“Maybe we can tie you up with some of my ribbon at night?” Rarity says happily.

“Girls, I have a um..better idea..” Fluttershy says a little louder, but still nopony can hear her.

“Oh! Maybe we can lock you up in a cell!” Twilight says, Cadence’s face becoming more and more concerned and afraid. Finally, the ignorance of her makes Fluttershy blow her top.

“Girls!” Fluttershy yells, and everypony suddenly stares at her. Fluttershy blushes and lowers her voice. “I have a better idea.”

“Then what's your idea, Fluttershy?” Twilight asks, looking at her more closely. Fluttershy smiles.

“Cadence should try and not sleep, that way her evil self can’t be summoned.” Twilight sighs, thinking of other things that could go along with it.

“What if her evil self summons when she’s asleep?” Fluttershy sighs and just whispers,

“Just an idea..” Twilight sighs and shrugs her shoulders.

“I guess its worth a try, hopefully it works.” So everypony cares for Cadence the whole day and at night, they go up to Canterlot Castle to rest, leaving a doctor and Fluttershy to watch the screen and make sure she’s okay.

Cadence goes for a couple hours, but its too much to handle just to keep up for herself. Before she knows it, she’s beat, and she falls fast asleep.

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Virus’s eyes open, even more aglow than ever, and if only did the friends and princesses know, that Virus was listening in while contained in Cadence’s body. So, she decided to terrorize Fluttershy and the doctor, taking away one less friend of the group to help. So, she gets out of the bed and quietly goes halfway down the hall.

“What was that?” Says one of the two voices, which she presumes as the doctor. Then the other voice speaks up, but more quietly.

“I don’t know, should we um...go check?” She knows this is Fluttershy. But before they can check, Virus uses her magic to make the air smell like strawberries again, creating the love curse. She hears some muttering noises then both of the ponies break.

“You're my honey bear of feathers, Fluttershy~” Says the doctor, and Fluttershy giggles, and speaks in a terribly cute voice.

“You're my snuggle bunny cutie cat, Mr. Doc~” Virus giggles evilly as they continue to talk in lovey dovey voices.

“Miss Fluttershy, I heard you have a case of the cutie wootie loveitus~” Fluttershy giggles and then in an over-exaggerated voice, she says,

“Oh its soooo true, Mr. Love Doctor, I have the case of cutie wootie snuggly loveitus for you~” The Doctor laughs and then Virus hears kissing.

“I’m soooo in love, Miss snuggly bunny bear of love Fluttershy~” Virus chuckles a little more and then trots back to her room, the sounds of over-exaggerated lovey dovey words her medication and power, just like Chaos is Discords power.

And once more, she hops back in bed, turning into Cadence again.

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