Raising Fire

Princess Twilight Sparkle sat in the middle of the practise room at the top of the tower in the room she had been trapped in for almost a week. She could only asume that Pheonix had made a copy of her to rule the kingdom, the copy should mirror her well, but Pheonix didn't know all of her social behavior to program into it so it would act differentlly. She hoped that sompony would notice the minor differences, and what, save her? The door was sealed and nopony would expect her to be in here anyway. The only was Pheonx got in was through teleprtation.

She wasn't severly physicly hurt, she used her magic to defend herself but never in offence to hurt her student.

She honestly didn't know how to feel about Sparks, he was a son to her which was why she wouldn't harm him but she was hurt beyond reason that he would do this to her.

She shook her head, tossing her deflated mane off her face. She was weak, that much was true. No food and water wasn't as harmful for her as it would be for any normal pony, but it was taking its toll on her mood. She couldn't conjur any thing in this blasted room either, so no blankets in the could nights or shades from the sun. The prince came every night at sundown, and would stay with her often the whole night each time looking more and more deranged and insane. She could only imagine how Sunset must feel seeing her husband like this, let alone him disappearing for whole nights.

He knew that she extreamily powerful, and just because he had managed to capture her didn't make him supirior to her in anyway, he couldn't physicly torture her aside from starving her, so he mentaly abused her.

From all the years he had spent as her pupil he had learnt alot of sensitive information about her past that he was using against her now. And it was working.

"Remeber when you first met them, princess?" She fought off the memories of last night, it was bad enough when he was here, she couldn't afford to think of it anymore than she had to. "Remember how you avoided them, called them crazy, thought they were freaks. Remeber how they never gave up on you, can followed you into that forest to flight your battle? They did that for you, they fought your battles and put themselves in danger for you." She could hear his ruined raspy voice echoing inside her head, she couldn't block it out, it boomed through her head, filling her ears with his ruined youthful drawl. It was like standing next to Vinyl Scratch's speakers with the volume turned up dangourosly high, it was tearing apart her ear drums.

"You even kept them believing that 'friendship was magic'! That was crule, really. Friendship is magic, is it? how magical was it when you left them a meir week after your corination. What were those last words you said to them?" No, stop, not this. "'I'll see you at Pinkie's party,' That was what you told them all, 'I'll see you at Pinkie's party'. She threw that party for you, you know. Did you even go to that party, princess?"

"No!" she shouted out loud, tears streaming down her face, she looked up and the scale sun, it was nearly at the bottom of the room, he would be here soon.

"You didn't even show up. They waited for you for two hours, then they went to the library thinking you were /hurt!/, they always believed the best in you. And when they went inside to see the building deserted and all your belongings gone, they thought you'd been /robbed/ and /kidnapped!/ They were about to find the police, when they found a note from you. Do you know what that note said, Twilight? Of course you do, because if you have any decency in that sugar coated heart of yours you will never forgive youself."

Tear rolled down her face as the voice of her student boomed through her num brain.

"'Dear girls, moved back to Canterlot perminatly. Do not contact me. Twilight.'" A cold laughter eachoed horribly, it was truly frightening to remeber the voice belonged to the colt she had practicly raised in this very room.

"And they still didn't believe it. They waited all day for you to come back and you didn't. Did you care? Did you mention them again after that? No, you acted like they never existed, ruled Equestira and pretended even to your mentor that everything was perfect. And then they died."

He paused, she could visulise him standing over her sniveling figure, smiling insanely.

"You did visit their graves, after they had been dead for twenty years. You asked ponies who knew them what they were like, you hoped they had /foriven you/.

"But they hadn't, they died hating you as they had since the started believing the letter. How could you expect them to forgive you? They fought your battles, they trusted you, believed in you, right until the end. Then you left them. Just. Like. That."

The sound disapered, leaving her whole head hurting and her hears humming .

She glanced up at the cieling, the miniature moon was not rising above her aching head. A tear rolled down her cheek, she closed her eyes and enjoyed the last peaceful moments of the night. Soon she felt the air ripple and saw a flash of burning red, momenterily blinding her. When she could see clearly, there he was. Standing over her, mane seemingly glowing against the silver dark room.

"Hello, Twilight." She looked up at him, still refusing to hurt him but hate tinging her glare. "Since you still seem to cold hearted to grant me the one thing in this world I cannot live without, I have to punish you further. Did you like listening to last night again? because from now on, if you  still refuse to just tell me already and save youself the pain, My memory will torment you by day and I will myself my night." His face became level with hers. "I will get to you princess, you will eventuly become too weak to cast your defending spells and I will perform my truth spell and finally, finally!" his face seemed to alight with a disturbing smile. "I will have my immortality spell. We can either draw it out, or you can just tell me."

She stared at him, begging him to see reason only to be met with logic clouded with insane love.

"No? we shall continue then."

She lay there listening to him, it was amazing how much words could do. They seemed to circlate into her soul and torment her from within.

She lay there through the night, the most powerful being in Equestira slowly crying until she ran out of tears.