Raising Fire

Prince Sparks teleported into his chambers at three am, he was beaming, foal like happieness filling him like a balloon.

"Sunset!" He ran over to his bed, and he looked at his wife withour picturing her death for the first time in a year and a half.

".........Pheonix?" Came her weary voice from the bed. She had become acustemed to sleeping by herself.

"Sunset! I - I have the spell!"

"Spell, what spell?" She sat up, confused, her was a mane a mess. He had never appreciated how beatiful her mane looked  when it was a mess.

"What spell? What spell? the spell for immortality of course!" he beamed, but it didn't look right. His new face was not suited to happieness.

"Why would you need a spell for immortality?" She asked, sounding slightly more awake, but still heavily confused.

He looked at her, puzzled. He was sure he had told her about his plan to make her an alicorn.

"To..to make you immortal of course, we can live together forever!"

"Why would I want to be immortal? I thought alicorn spells were only used on sucsessors, wait, is this why you've been acting differently?" Her expression hardened.

"Acting differently? Oh, this is just from stress, the point is, we can be together now!"

"For the last mounth you haven't been here a single night and for the last seven mounths - yes I've been counting! - you haven't smiled or looked me in the eye, when you do sleep you do so outside and you haven't bothered to explain anything to me!" Her voice rose hystericly. "Explain."

He was frestrated, this wasn't the point. Didn't she know it was all because he had been mortally terrified of her death?

Did he really have to spell out the obvious? He figured he might as well, just to make her happy and then she would fully understand how wonderful it was that they could rule together.

So he told her about his grand fear of her death, how he had tried asking Twilight and how she had declined, so he had made her talk. He only told her that he made her, she may feel attached to Twilight and thus mournful.

"What do you mean you 'made her talk'?" She asked, her voice quiet, afraid of the answer.

"It's not the point! Now please let me-"

"What do you mean, Pheonix?"

He started into his wife's expresssoin of fear anger and confusion. It was no point hiding from her.

"I tortured her." he looked at the ground, feeling no guilt at the deed, it had afterall proved sucsessful, but he couldn't bare his wife's expression. "I tortured her until she told me the spell."

Sunset went pale, her husband had tortured a princess and put a puppet in her place to rule a kingdom. Her husband had gone insane with /love/ and made her miserable just so they could be immortal.

But she couldn't live forever with him, not anymore, not after what he had made her feel and what he had done.

"So, now you have the spell, I'm meant to live forever with you?" She asked quietly.

He brightened up, a happieness that didn't look natural on his deranged face, "Yes! We can live forever!" He began babbling about somthing while she felt like crying. She couldn't live forever with a insane stallion who had tortured the princess herself, and made her feel alone for seven mounths without bothering to explain anything to her.

"-so you want me to cast it now? like, right now?!" Wait, what? now? No, she wouldn't. She would stand up to him and do what she wanted.

"I don't want to live forever with you, Pheonix." She stared at him bluntly, her voice catching slightly. She didn't want to do this.

"What?" He asked, asuming he had herd wrong and his smile faultering slightly.

"Do you know how I've felt these last seven mounths? You haven't looked me in the eye, you've barely slept  at all, you start to change and I don't know if you don't love me anymore or if you're sick, or what! You haven't told me anything! And this past mounth I've been sleeping completly alone because you didn't even bother to tell me where you were going, and now I find you you've been torturing not only the princess but somepony who was like a sister to me and I thought was like a mother to you! All for somthing I never said I even wanted in the first place, I don't want to live forever with you or anypony else! I wanted us to enjoy the time we had together, I thought you did too."

He listened to her, anger slowly rolling in, his whole body starting to heat up like a furnace.

He had been scared to death of her dieing, he had givin everything he had into getting this spell. And now he had it, now they had a chance to live together and she didn't want it. His eyes narrowed, his magic heating his body too hot, it hurt.

"...I don't even know you anymore Pheonix, you've changed, I'm sorry." She finished her monolouge, tears rolling down her face.

"You don't want to come with me? After all I've done, you don't want to finally live together forver?" His insane smile was back, he took a step towards her. His body heating up to the extent that he felt like it was alight.

She looked terrified, but stood her ground and shook her head.

His hourn glowed a blinding orange and his whole body burst into flame. She sceamed  and tried to shuffle backwards.

The room began to burn. His ember eyes narrowed and a beam of pure fire hit Sunset in the chest. For a moment she was surrowded by a blinding white light, she stayed there for a moment, her body put through heat no living thing could wishstand. Then, the light disappeared and where his bride had just been, there was nothing.

The room burst into flame, and he walked in the remonece of their few happy mounths of being together.

The gaurds that had been standing outside came rushing in, only to be hit by the same white light

He walked through the corridor, everything he touched bursting in to flame, gaurds being burt to death whenever they got to close.

Nothing in this world is right, he thought, Nothing is fair.

There's no point of it even being here, just another misery after the next. He arived at the belcony, the stone burning from the touch of his hooves.

Nothing is right. He looked up at his kingdom, filled with miseries, sadness and lies.

Why did it even exist? What was the point. And in that split second, he decided the fait of Equestira. Evil burned behind his ember eyes.

It can all burn.