Up in Flames

Golden Flames POV

When we got to the castle in Canterlot, it was huge, and I mean HUGE! We walked into the throne room and I noticed a couple of stained glass windows depicting Twilight and her friends defeating a Draconequus and Nightmare Moon. But there was a third that I didn’t know about. I decided to ask Applejack about it.

”Applejack, can I ask you something?”

“Sure sugarcube. What is it?”

“I know about the stained glass windows and how you defeated Discord and Nightmare Moon, but, what’s the third one about?”

“That one is when we defeated those dern Changelings and ah don’t wanna think what would happen if they showed up again.” She shuddered at that. So that’s what the third one was. The Princesses were at the front of the throne room. Princess Celestia is a white alicorn with a flowing mane. Princess Luna is a dark blue alicorn with a sparkly flowing mane.

“You wanted to see us Princesses?” Twilight asked.

“Yes we did.”

“What about?”

“We wanted to see you so that we can determine why your cousin has such an affinity for flame-coloured magic.”

“Phew, I thought it was going to be something bad.”

“Who said that it isn’t? Hmm?”

“Golden Flames, come up here.” Princess Celestia beckoned me up to where her and her sister should.

“Would you like to show us what you can do?” Princess Luna asked me.

“Okay.” I began charging up power in my horn. When I released it this time, though, a stream of silver flames came out and just happened to hit Princess Celestia.

When it hit her I saw in my mind’s eye, a purple-grey pony, with a dark green mane and lemon yellow tail. I noticed that there was sand everywhere. He was walking along apparently frantic about something or other. He was running around everywhere. I then saw Princess Celestia come up to him and talk to him. I couldn’t hear what they were saying. I then saw Princess Celestia grin evilly and powered up her horn to deliver a knock out spell on him. After the spell she kidnapped him and took him away to her own private Canterlot dungeon. I broke the connection and fainted.

When I came to I was in a medical place.

“Golden Flames, you okay?” It was Twilight who asked me that.

“Uh, yeah, I’m, I’m okay.”

“What happened there? I thought you could only shoot gold and white flames.”

Yeah, so did I. That was different. When the stream landed on Princess Celestia…” I then proceeded to tell everypony who was in the room, thankfully the Princessses weren’t there, what I saw. Everypony shuddered after I finished, even me.

“Okay. We know what this means. We can’t tell the Princesses about what you saw.” It was Rarity who said that.

In a swamp somewhere in Equestria …

A bug-like creature rose out of the swamp where the real Princess Cadence and her husband Shining Armor tossed her after using their magic. She had a pair of tattered insectoid wings, a twisted black horn, a pair of fangs, and dark green eyes with elongated oval pupils. She has a teal mane and tail, blue-green chitinous armor plating over her midsection. She usually wears small, black crown with blue orbs but it was somewhere else in the swamp. Her legs, mane and tail are full of holes and her limbs and torso are very slender.

“Now, where are my minions?” She asks herself. Her voice has a slight distorted, echoey quality to it. She glances around and sees that most of her minions are upside-down in the muck, most of them are likely dead from suffocation. ‘Oh well, I guess I can lose a few hundred minions or so.’ With that thought in mind she proceeded to make some more minions.

In Canterlot …

Golden Flames POV

“Why can’t we?” Twilight asked.

“Because if Princess Celestia wanted you to know, wouldn’t she tell you?”

“Oh.” After that morbid conversation we all went back to Ponyville, more specifically, Twilight’s library.

“Well that was an eventful day, don’t you think?” Twilight asked me. I yawned.

“Yes…yawn…it..was…” I fell asleep standing up.

Twilight’s POV

After I saw that Golden was asleep I levitated her up to her bed next to Spike, who was also sleeping. I then proceeded to go to bed and just as I was about to fall asleep, I had an unpleasant thought: ‘What would happen if Queen Chrysalis came back?”