Quick update · 5:51am Mar 5th, 2018
Twilight Sparkle was in hell. The world was hewn out of dead rock and filled with fire and brimstone and the occasional maimed skeleton despite how often she checked and cleaned the place. Demon flew across the sky carrying horrible weapons of death. Ponies huddled together in groups, ragged and unkempt, desperately trying to find scraps of food. The entire world was simply depressing and horrible.
Still, she was the Queen, and that helped.
One of her demonic legions landed before her and knelt. “Your Majesty. We’ve apprehended one of the warlords that were waylaying food transports. Would you me to send him in?”
“Oh of course!” Twilight said brightly. “Just give me a moment to freshen up, please.”
“Of course, your grace.” As the demon rose and left, Twilight stood and stretched. She placed her paperwork back in the hollowed-out portion of rock that functioned as shelving and magically sealed it in. She walked over to the cracked mirror to make sure her armor was straight. Twilight was glad it was a simulation, otherwise, the spikes would make the suit horrible uncomfortable. Still, until metalworking improved, there was nothing for it but armor carved from the bones of her enemies. It was surprisingly sturdy and made her tattered purple cloak look impressive instead of tacky. Rarity would be proud.
She cleared her throat. “Okay, evil voice, evil voice, evil voice.” She dropped her voice lower and lower each time she spoke and added a rumble in the back of her throat. It took a little practice, but she could manage a very intimidating demonic growl without even needing to use her magic. She levitated her hood over her head, casting her face in deep shadow. As a final touch, she canceled the perfectly normal lighting spell and lit a series of light blue fires around the walls. She returned to her throne and sat down, casting an imperious look at the door. “Bring him to me.”
The warlord (she couldn’t remember his name, something like Medaton, or something,) managed to walk with dignity as he was led in by her guards. He was taller than she was and strong enough to wear armor carved from granite. Twilight considered tracking some down but decided against. She’d already committed to her look. He sneered as he strode down past her guards and made sure that everypony could see his pointed teeth and terrifying red eyes “So, you are the ‘mighty’ Queen Twilight Sparkle. It’s just so good to finally meet face to face, isn’t it? After all this time?”
Twilight raised an eyebrow. “I suppose. Remind me who are you, again?”
“Who am I,” the warlord repeated. “Who am I? I am the Gladiator of Kaon. I am the Emperor of Destruction. I am the one who has drunk of the Blood of the Great Destroyer itself. I. AM. MEGA-”
“Actually, I don’t care,” Twilight interrupted. “I’m Twilight Sparkle. I don’t need titles because I’m Twilight Sparkle. You know who I am, that’s why you’re in chains.”
Mega-whatever chuckled. “Chains are a state of mind, your highness. I am-”
Twilight lit her horn, yanking him by the chains up and into the ceiling. At her command, the floor cracked open, revealing a horrible pit of lava underneath. Dark shapes swam underneath, coming ominously close to the surface. “That’s really inspiring, but I’d point out that death can alter someponies state of mind very thoroughly as well.” She let some slack into the chains, letting the self-styled warlord slip perilously close to the lava. Drawn by the scent of blood, one of the beings that lived in the lava swam up to the surface and looked at its prey. It was a shark, but one that could swim in lava.
Work stalled around "It was a shark, but one that could swim in lava."
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Okay, for the past two weeks and this next week, I've been working between ten and twelve hours a day between both of my jobs, which means I've gotten basically nothing important done. I'll be leaving for Amazon soon, so having just one job will help out tremendously.
I do have a lot of scaps for things. I never got anything complete in time for either of the contests I wanted to enter. I do technically have a little over a week to complete an original fiction contest— but realistically, that's not happening.
I think this is the first time I've had an actual reason to be late for writing. I still plan on continuing Equiforce (previously called The More Things Change) in about a month-ish, and I'm also helping plot a sequel to Break Away, tentatively called the Cessation. I'm really proud of how both of my Break Away chapters went (first and second) so I'm excited to see how this plays out.
Are there any websites you guys know where you can post original fiction? I'd like to try and do new things, but I don't know where to do that. Maybe there's a magazine somewhere...
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter, and by newsletter I mean Twilight wearing bones and talking in what I assume is 1.37 of this video.
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It's supposed to be Raven's voice because they share the same V.A.
I'd like to continue it, but I'm not sure where the story is going.
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Hmm. Could be a one shot? Maybe after the pony apocalypse the Elements all wound up in the spirit world but you can't keep a good Type-A personality down, so one day Twilight was adventuring in hell and was like man, the filing in here is A DISGRACE and one thing led to another and now she's playing dark lord so she and Rainbow "Shining Lady of Valhalla" Dash have a civil war reenactment type thing to do on weekends?