//------------------------------// // Vengeance // Story: Lyra - Unleashed // by XyroX //------------------------------// “It’s about time that we finally have an even fight, Sunset. You see, I brought a friend here, too. It was a mistake to treat my human mind like you did.” They charged towards me and I took more power from the amulet. My eyes changed to yellow and more black-red shadows flowed out of them. I smashed both of them on the walls, laughing like crazy. The power was overwhelming. Sunset and Chrysalis came back to their feet and readied some deadly casts, but I dodged them. My whole brain had switched to battle- no, killing-mode. There wasn’t room for things like mercy or compassion, just hate and the wish for revenge. I fired some beams at Chrysalis, knocking her out instantly. “What the hell? How can you defeat her so easily? This isn’t possible!” Sunset panicked for a moment. “Well, I think I can take control of the portal now all by myself. This is going to be really interesting.” The portal glowed bright and I could feel Sunset’s magic grow. “You will get what you deserve, Sunset. I won’t let you get away this time. It will end here, today, and I will be the one remaining.” Her speed was a real problem. Though her spells still were easy to dodge, her kicks and punches were too quick to get away from them. After a few minutes I was bleeding everywhere in my face, my jaw and nose broken, but I wouldn’t feel any pain. I was too focused on the fight to think about my injuries. You start to make me mad, Sunset. More and more kicks and punches landed on my body and there came a point I couldn’t hold it anymore. I backed up, recovering breath and she took a moment to do the same. “You are weak, Lyra, even with this amulet you have no chance against me. Now excuse me, I have to end this.” She charged towards me, but she wouldn’t reach me. She was perhaps one or two steps away when my body got wrapped in a black-red sphere which she couldn’t break through. A huge explosion spread out and kicked her back. The sphere disappeared and showed my new form. My whole body was covered with the dark magic of the Alicorn Amulet, black and red shadows swirled around me, the only thing visible from my real body were my eyes, still in a wicked yellow. “It’s over, Sunset. Prepare to leave this and every other world!” While I was in the sphere, I let my hate take control completely. I was faster than lightning and started to rearrange her face with my claws. I used my cursed magic to force her back in her pony form and continued crushing her face. She lied on the ground, I was above her, holding her head up on her horn. With every punch her skull smashed on the ground until she was almost unconscious. “It’s time to pay for your actions!” “Stop it, Lyra! Stop!” I turned around and saw Celestia, Luna and Twilight standing in the doors. “Leave, or you’ll be next!” “No, Lyra, we won’t. Stop this madness right now! Do you really want to get on her level? You are better than this, and you know it! Let her go!” They dashed towards me, but I quickly summoned a globe around me and Sunset. They won’t take away my vengeance! “You see? This is the reason I denied your help when you offered it to me. I will have me revenge, and nopony will stop me!” I turned back to Sunset and continued my work. I used my magic to heal her just enough to wake up, I wanted her to be conscious when I finished her. “Look who came to save you, Sunset! I’m even more powerful than the three rulers of Equestria combined, and you thought you could win against me? You don’t deserve mercy, and you don’t deserve being a unicorn!” I grabbed her horn and started to pull. Sunset screamed in pure pain, but I didn’t care. She kicked around, but with a quick move I crushed her knees, which she commented with even louder screaming. “Lyra, don’t! Would Bon Bon want you to do that?” “Don’t you dare talking about Bon Bon! You never knew her! This isn’t about what she’d want, it’s about what is fair!” I continued pulling and turning Sunset’s horn and slowly felt how her forehead yielded. Sunset’s screaming turned into a begging whine, but I didn’t hear her. One more brutal pull, and my work was complete. I held her horn in front of my eyes, it dripped with blood and around it's bottom hung shreds of Sunset's skull and fur, her dead body lying on the ground. A pool of warm blood started to form around her. I turned around to the princesses, still holding the horn up that had caused so much suffering. Twilight began to cry and Luna almost threw up, just Celestia kept a serious expression. “Don’t fear me, princesses. My work here is done. I’ll leave this place now. As I said, I don’t care about what happens to Queen Chrysalis, she’s over there.” I pointed in the corner. “And she’s alive. But do you really want to lock her up without any actions of revenge after she destroyed half of Equestria and killed so many ponies? If you want to get rid of her once and for all, I’ll take care of that.” “No, Lyra. What you have done is cruel, even compared to her actions. You better leave now, and never come back. I won’t let somepony- no, some human like you live here any longer. Get back to your world if you want, but you’ll never come back to any pony city, or we’ll have to fight you.” Without any more word I teleported away, far away from any other pony. I went to the Badlands, not knowing what to do with my life anymore. So this is the end? Banished from my friends, forced to live in this absent place? I guess I don’t deserve any better. - Are you kidding me? They should celebrate you like the hero you are, you saved their entire kingdom, for gods sake! It’s true, I saved Equestria from one threat. But I wasn’t sure if I hadn’t created a much bigger one.