Author's Note

This is my first story I've made any criticism is welcomed

The flame begins to burn

Ponyville had gone through rough patches before. An angry alicorn, parasites, even a ursa minor, but this was a new threat with a familiar face…

She had come in the middle of the day, proudly displaying an artifact, lost long ago a silver amulet with a red gem in the middle.

Holding a cursed power granting the user immense magical power, at the cost of feeding off of the hate and Malice of the wearer eventually driving the wearer into a state of Hysteria.

Bringing with her a wave of arrogance, and anger Trixie LulaMoon had taken over the town, challenging the prodigy twilight sparkle, beating her into exile, forcing her friends and neighbors into her service, Trixie had ruled over the ponies of the village.

Multiple ponies lie in hospital beds, two of which being Mr and Mrs cake for defying orders, after attempting to break curfew by getting food for their baby, both of them sporting fresh burn wounds are resting while pinkie takes care of the baby's.

Ponyville lies in a minor state of ruin; a few of the buildings in the once bustling town, now lies in a sad state of disrepair.

Slightly torn banners hang around the town attached to the buildings that were still in good condition, the banners showed face of a blue mare clothed in a pointed hat and cape that were covered in stars, Text below the mare's visage that read long live the great and powerful Trixie.

All this damage is a result of one mare with a powerful amulet and a lust for power. In a mere 4 days she had turned this once peaceful town into a near abandoned settlement, the town being evacuated hours ago to prepare for a duel.

A battle that would decide its fate, four days ago After arriving with her amulet and taking over Ponyville after beating celestia's star student Twilight sparkle, Trixie had slowly begun to become more paranoid and short tempered resulting in episodes that endangered the lives of the town each day becoming worse.

After 5 ponies were sent to the hospital for burn wounds, and damage to infrastructure that would take weeks to repair, Twilight arrived for round two, having gained a new spell from her friend zecora.

Twilight prepared for the duel standing in the center of town she saw as Trixie approached. Each step a bit unsteady mane unkempt her eyes darted from building to building looking for something she stopped, twenty feet away from twilight.

The duel had unofficially begun. "Trixie, this is your last chance to back down, I don't know why you're doing this but that amulet can't be helping if you take it off I promise we can help you".

" No no no no no that's why you came back, said the crazed mare you just wanted my amulet they all want it but it's MINE! MINE!".

" You can't have it", her horn glows a beam of red light shooting out. Twilight braces making a dome of purple magic that protects her from the blast, the barrier slightly cracking.

"Ohhhh what's wrong," letting loose another blast hitting the dome again, the cracks spreading "can't handle a little attack spell. Did you not learn how to use your magic in a fight? How sad. Says Trixie" ,This time launching a large beam shattering the barrier, Twilight teleported onto the roof of a nearby building, looking down at the former magician panting and sweating after expending so much magic so quickly.

"Oh Twilight, where are you?" Trixie began to look around after the beam hadn't left a burned mare in it's path, her head pulsing with images of Twilight laying on the ground unmoving,"you can't hide from me come out and fight, I promise rarity will make your horn look beautiful around my neck."

tired and a bit unfocused Twilight prepared the spell zecora had taught her, a spell used by her tribe in the past when hunting large beasts the danger in it was there no time to master the spell so unless aimed right and properly concentrated on it could kill the target or the user casting the spell, if misfired.

Trixie felt a heat began to rise in her right hoof, as a beam shoots past her looking at the source of the heat,was a red pool forming and gash sliced deep into her foreleg looking where the beam came from the queens eyes lost all color but red, the gem in the amulet was now shining like a small sun from her chest.

Teleporting to Twilight Trixie slammed her right foreleg into Twilight's jaw, sending her off the building landing hard on the ground.

attempting to pick herself up, the purple mare looked at the ground blood coming from the mare's mouth alongside three teeth sitting in the small puddle.

"You… you" interrupted again "aww what's wrong did you think this little scratch was enough to stop, me m..me THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE!?, Don't make me laugh."

"But don't worry, I have a present for you" hearing this Twilight looked up to see Spike held by magic in the air unconscious.

"DON'T TOUCH HIM!!" Trixie took her eyes off the purple mare to look at the dragon, come on wake up slamming him into the ground, She heard a groan of pain "oh look now you're awake well while you are say goodbye to you mentor she about to leave for a long l.o.n.g time. "

Rage she hadn't felt so useless before the only time close was with Nightmaremoon, this had to end the same way, she couldn't give up, not now not when everyone was counting on her putting the rest of her strength ignoring the pain all around her body Twilight charged her horn putting everything into it she aimed for the amulet and fired.

A light caught the great and powerful Trixie's eye, looking over the power of the spell could be felt, fear gripped her soul, the mare's mind filling with ways she might die, the voices in her head reappearing run,escape,leave NOW.

"No not here I'm going to be the greatest magician in the land.. so..so I can't go out here I c..c..c can't." Charging her horn she attempts to retreat, using a teleportation spell, running away.

" There's always another town, another group of ponies, there's always time to come back and take over later". The amulet sensing danger amplifies Trixie's magic even further attempting to teleport, instead rips a hole in reality, behind her the vacuum of the hole grabs Trixie, placing her in a tunnel of light blinding her pulling the mare for a long distance.

For what seems like hours realizing she's pulled through the tunnel, realizing after an unknown amount of time. The light was mostly gone and that her eyes were closed.

Trixie opens her eyes looking down there's a black road with yellow lines and spaces between, the light behind her disappears, as Trixie begins walking,looking around as large objects fly past her at dizzying speeds each having two sets of lights on the front.

Two of them appear to be approaching her and fast.panicking and Backing up the mare charges her horn, and makes a red shield while turning around and running the tear reopens in front of her, getting within a few feet of it she blinks. Everything feels numb, a slight tingle in her head.

The mare's hooves weren't touching the ground but she can't reason why,the light that was the mare's safe haven looks to come to her this time.

The trip is much shorter,but leaves her with an odd feeling her coat begins to lose a bit of its shine and minor wrinkles begin to form, slamming into a tree, and landing at the base with her back to it. Trixies head feels foggy trying to figure out what just happened, looking ahead she stares into the tear of light, as it produces something big.

Time slows down giving the mare time to look closer at it, bigger than a carriage and lights on the front it looks to be made of metal, two large ape like creature inside of it them seeing them fills her with a unnatural hate just seeing them enrages her, "hate hate ha" …. are the last words that fill her mind before, everything goes black.

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All that the ape-like creature was greeted to was darkness, as his consciousness slowly came back to him. His head Slumped resting against the steering wheel groaning he began to feel pain, a sharp one in both his chest and a throbbing in his skull the driver opened his eyes just to quickly be forced to shut them. The pain sent him reeling back into the seat, eyes burning.

Breathing in he could feel his Lungs burn the pain began to overwhelm him triggering the man's fight or flight response. He forced his eyes open trying to see where he was, through the smoke making out a steering wheel and remembering he had been in a car crash when driving an ambulance.

The emt reached for the door half blind and weighed down with a heaviness In his limbs. Grabbing the door handle and throwing himself out of the vehicle the man began desperately clearing his eyes and lungs CRACK the sound of a gunshot rang out looking for the source of the sound the emt, began to see where he was and the state of the vehicle.

As far as the eye could see were trees each having thick trunks that extended at least fifty feet into the air. The density of the leaves and branches blocked out any significant amount of light to reach the ground. Only beams of light broke through the canopy, just enough to see things around twenty feet away.

The man shook his head and stood up trying to remember what happened. A flash of memories assaulted his mind driving down the highway in the ambulance a bright light appeared. The person in the passenger seat screamed before a Humvee slammed into his side door.

"Wait, if I crashed from on the highway how could I have ended up here, there's no large gaps in the trees that the ambulance would slip through". "THE PASSENGER" I've got to see if he's ok, not fully steady on his feet the man hobbled over to the passenger door, it had a large dent.

The Humvee still attached to the ambulance not at the door but near the grill both cars' bumpers were pressed up against a tree. Looking over the vehicles. Smoke was lightly pouring from under the hood of the ambulance.

Blood was splattered across the front of the cars, the humvee had all of it's doors open with a duffle bag laying on the blood speckled seats, the car looking ransacked the man decided to check on it later opening the ambulance door finding and his coworker a man by the name of Sam laying in.

A bloody seat. Crimson was dripping from his head and pooling under his shirt . An ominous red glow emanating from the same location looking down he noticed the same spot of pain in his chest was now glowing red. Putting that unsettling fact aside he checked for a pulse not only was one found it was vigorous and healthy as if he had gone for a jog. CRACK! "the sound is getting closer" .

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"POLICE REPORT"
case number 2018-527851 report made by officer Kelly Jackson, 15 minutes after the incident was called by an anonymous person of unknown gender, race or age reported the Incident, this was a possible case of hit and run.

Involving a multiple car pile up leaving 7 injured, at approximately 1:35am on i95 between Stony creek and jarratt heading north a group of around 8 cars, a Humvee and ambulance beside each other heading the front of the group involved in said incident, the rest of the cars are of an unknown make and model the location of inhabitants In each car are also unknown.

Each car reportedly went missing after a head on collision with unknown wildlife. Several eye witnesses claim to have seen an animal the size of a small deer with bright blue coloration, that walked out of a ball of light that suddenly appeared in the center lanes approximately thirty feet from the two front runners.

The unidentifiable creature had a red light glowing off of its chest and was dressed in some kind of clothes, one article of Which was supposedly a pointy hat. Each witness told the same story, more or less that the light that had appeared instantly in front of the group and disappeared just as fast after the creature exited it.

Now standing in the middle of two lanes of traffic it let out a scream frightened by the sight of the fast approaching cars. Its head glowed and a second flash of light was emitted from behind the animal,along with a translucent red dome over it as it started to back away.

The cars in the center lanes were blinded by the light hitting each other and then the retreating creature. The animal being hit at a speed of about 80 miles per hour was.

Flung at great speed into the light both cars disappear into the light after being unable to stop themselves. Blinded and panicked, the six other cars behind the first two weren't able to stop either, also hitting the light and disappearing inside.

After the light had engulfed each car it, produced a deafening sound of car's crashing and began to fade away. After approximately 30 seconds the light faded leaving only the aftermath behind broken glass twisted metal along with blood and gore,

the only thing identifiable from the scene was the severed foreleg of a small horse like creature possibly a pony with unique coloration and on the bottom of the hoof was a small tron piece of cloth melded to the skin possibly a child's blanket the symbol on the cloth being a white star, each witness was tested for drug or alcohol use each came back clean despite the fanciful story.