Joy of hidden Love and the Wrath of Lust
By.FoxofRarity
Chapter.18
Disclaimer-My little Pony Friendship is Magic belongs to Hasbro and Lauren Faust.
“No! I don’t believe you. No! I-i-it jus-Jus… nooooooooo!” Gold Sky screams.
Death whom he is more than willing to invite now strikes fear into his heart when he has something so dear in his life. Even more than Octavia losing her immortality, because he still hasn’t forgiven himself for shedding the innocent blood that honor caused him to spill.
Princess Celestia bit her bottom lip before speaking.
“Unfortunately Gold Sky, you have to believe me. I did not make that rule. The Royal Court did, because they wanted to end the plague of unavenged victims. So they decided if they caught one they will make an example out of him or her. By a swift decapitation.”
Gold Sky’s heart skips a beat and the anger he had building inside of him just vanishes.
Being taken away from Octavia…the high probability executed for a crime he never committed…so this is how his life will end. He lost his parents, he will now lose his wife, his friends, the best co-worker anypony can ask for, his life, and a chance to forgive himself for shedding innocent blood of the rouge clan. And something evermore dear than anything mentioned above by will say the name out of infinite guilt.
The Alicorn feels the world crushing him from the inside, causing him to fall to his knees before Celestia for a chance to beg for mercy.
“Ce-Ce-Celestia, I lay here before you not as your friend, not as the stallion you once loved as a son, and not as a subject, but simply as a stallion begging for his life because I have everything to lose. Please your majesty grant me any form of mercy, y-you know I’ll never do anything like what I’m being accused of. Please don’t take me away from the mare that gives me happiness, please let me live…” Gold Sky slowly spreads out his wings. “Take my wings.” He touches his horn. “Take my horn and everything else of the unicorn part of me.” Gold Sky made his leg muscles bulge. “Take my strength…take whatever you want from me, but I beg you to please leave me my life. I am simply an individual who lives in this world created by the Great Spirit, a individual who tried to seek the meaning of his life by leaving one you gracefully gave to me, a individual who now has everything his heart could ever want, but is also willing to kill so he will not be taken away from it. But I can’t…Your majesty you can take my name if you want. BUT LEAVE ME MY LIFE!! I will give you everything of myself and the Great Spirit is a witness to my promise, BUT LEAVE ME MY LIFE!! I am willing to be seen as the dust that hangs under your hoof, to be made a pony that was once a beautiful Alicorn like yourself, and without the name my parents gave me. But I beg you LEAVE ME MY LIFE! Let me be with Octavia! Let me live my life with my wife. I don’t want to die. I can’t, I-I just can’t. Please I beg you your majesty please, please, please grant me mercy.” Tears run down from eyes, his voice has never been so sad before and to show what he’ll do for any form of mercy, he starts to kiss the hooves of Princess Celestia.
Princess Celestia just wants to stroke Gold Sky’s mane and tell him everything will be all right. But she can’t. She read his mind and unsurprisingly; he is willing to give up everything of himself so he can live, even his name.
“Take my name if you want…”
“Why?” Questions Celestia.
“Because I can have another name, but I only got one life and I cannot have another! I let my heart fill with happiness throughout the years, living and sharing my love to everypony in Equestria. I will give you everything but leave me my life.” Gold Sky just stays still before Celestia. Hope is a lie, a stupid and cruel joke.
“I want to go home…I miss Octavia, please, I want to go home.” Gold Sky starts to cry, because he must accept his fate.
It’s the right thing to do.
“Their cries sometimes keep me up at night, their blood will always be on my hoofs.” Mutters Gold Sky.
“Whose blood?” Questioned Celestia with a raised eyebrow.
Gold Sky realized what he said. “I-its nothing, just a crazy dream.”
Celestia got down to her knees so she can be at his eye level.
“I raised you better than this! Is this how you pay me back, by becoming weak and pathetic! I taught you to fight for what you love! I know you killed a dragon and some pony criminals, but now you are letting yourself be put to death because you will not fight for what you love. Gold Sky, why!? Answer me, why!? I’ve seen your mind, all that love you have for Octavia…so much love that not even I, can understand, is being ignored at this very moment because you want to do the right thing. Rise up and fight for what you love!” Celestia harshly scolds Gold Sky.
Gold Sky who started to frown and sighs deeply.
“If I rise up against the Royal Court, I will basically be rising up against you, Princess. Why will I rise up against the mare who took me under her wing and loved me as a son, only to be paid back by my sudden departure without even getting a goodbye and for two hundred years I tried to find peace while you became racked with sadness. I accept my fate…and please make sure Octavia moves on. Telepathically purge her mind if you must.” Gold Sky’s heartbeat slows down drastically, being away from Octavia begins to take its toll in the form of his heartbeat slowing down.
Celestia saw she cannot secretly save Gold Sky through her words. “I guess this how he plans to make up for his departure…by throwing away everything he loves, so I can know he still is racked with guilt, when he left me for his two hundred year journey. I wish he wouldn’t do this.”
“Gold Sky you will stand trial and there is where your fate will be decided. It might be long or it might be short, who knows. But at least you’ll have a lawyer. There will be will no jury so that will guarantee complete privacy of this case, and some of the Royal Court members like you… and by like I mean…ummm, how should I put it…they want to tap you.” Celestia keeps her voice serious.
Gold Sky lifts up his head. “By they, do you mean male or female?” Asks Gold Sky.
“I’m sure you know the answer to that.”
“Both?”
Celestia nods her head.
“Oh…well that’s disturbing.”
A long silence fell between them.
Until.
“Your majesty I want you know that I’m sorry for what happened between us. I should of apologized earlier.” Gold Sky then feels a hoof under his chin which lifts up his head so he can be eye to eye with Celestia.
“It’s alright, there is no need for you to say you’re sorry. We all make mistakes, just like you are right now by letting yourself be executed for a crime you never committed. But hey, it’s your choice and your life. How will Octavia feel, hmm? You are the one choosing to leave her. Ponder about that Gold Sky, you say you found happiness and you will kill to protect it. She is your Heart and your Pulse, are you not the same for her? Find reason…find hope.” Celestia nuzzles him gently on the head.
Celestia was about to call for the guards until Gold Sky asks one last question.
“Your majesty, who did you see when you got cursed by the illusion spell?”
Celestia snickers because she already knew what to say.
“Nopony…I saw nopony. Guards, please escort the prisoner back to his cell.”
Gold Sky got up, bows down before her, and went with the guards. LT. Toudou stays behind because his mind bugs him about one thing.
“Yes Toudou? You have a question you want to ask?”
Toudou clears his throat.
“Your highness, when you sent us to arrest Gold Sky. You ordered us not to lay a hoof on the wife on the basis that it’s for our safety, because if that is the case then she sure fought extremely well in protecting Gold Sky while he did nothing.” LT. Toudou hopes his reasoning will convince Princes Celestia in explaining her order.
Princess Celestia sighs because she will have to explain a lethal truth about Gold Sky.
“I gave you that order because it was not Octavia that will jeopardize your safety, its Gold Sky. Because he loves Octavia so much, he’ll do anything to protect her. He will not hesitate in killing you if he thinks it’s necessary, he will brutally kill all of you if you gave him reason to. That is why I ordered all of you to leave Octavia alone. Because Gold Sky is an Elite Commando guard like his father, strength, skill, and mind. Do not unleash him and make him become the Razor like his father’s former self.”
LT. Toudou thanks Princess Celestia and walks out of the throne room.
“A gentle stallion who can basically kill the entire Royal Guard allows himself to be tortured… humph, I’ll be damned.” Toudou thought.
***
Octavia finishes her fifth delectable apple pie.
“Pretty good eh Mrs. Octavia, you are the first mare to ever eat more than two pies.” Big Macintosh is quite amazed as he downs some apple cider.
Octavia just shot him a quick smile as she tries to let her comfort food cause her to temporary forget about her intentions and Gold Sky’s ordeal.
But during mid chew she felt her stomach twisting and a feeling of dizziness filling her head.
“Big Macintosh, is it all right for me to use your restroom.” Octavia ask in desperate haste.
“Of course, it’s down the hall second door to the right.”
Octavia immediately dashes to the restroom, after closing the door she got over the toilet and vomits.
“I guess I must have eaten too much pie. Oooh I’ve never felt like this before…oh not again!”
Octavia vomits once more and starts to feel her body temperature rise.
After figuring her stomach is completely empty, Octavia takes a quick peek in the medicine cabinet hoping she will find any form of medicine to make her stomach calm down.
“All right! This antacid is sure to help.” So after opening the bottle she got two pills and was about to wolf them down, until something inside her told her to read the label.
The label read- Contains Acetylsalicylic acid.
Octavia starts to think. “On second thought maybe not.”
“Octavia I need you…please.”
Her beautiful eyes open wide at hearing Gold Sky’s voice in her mind.
The gray mare walks out of the restroom and heads back to the dining room where Big Macintosh still is eating his first pie.
“I think I should go now, I have to go see Gold Sky. Thanks for the pies Big Mac…”
Big Macintosh kindly interrupts Octavia.
“Oh, how is he doing? Ah haven’t spoken with him for quite awhile.” Big Macintosh starts to smile as he places a piece of hay between his lips.
Octavia maintain her coy expression so Big Macintosh cannot calculate any significant meanings of her facial expressions. His mathematic expertise helps him with just about anything…anything…yeah. Anything.
“He is doing really well, and I really need to go because this is an urgent matter I need to attend.”
Big Macintosh nodsd and went to open the door for Octavia.
“All right Mrs. Octavia Ah didn’t mean delay you please say hi to Gold Sky for me, bye!” Big Macintosh voices happily to Octavia before she went out the door.
Octavia reaches the front gate of Sweet Apple acres, she looks back because today she might or might not be able to get her revenge on Applejack, unless she finds out where that orange mare is hiding, and then her revenge will be sweet like honey.
Octavia thought of Applejack and thinking of Applejack is like…cause and effect.
Cause- Make a bee angry and it will sting you.
Effect- The sting is painful and results in inflammation in the affected area of the skin.
Applejack loves Rarity, and Applejack is not here at Sweet Apple acres. Applejack accuses Gold Sky of raping Rarity.
The end result.
“Rarity’s boutique!! Of course! Why haven’t I thought of that before, where else will she run to hide! Humph! Shock and Awe and my eyes will be will the last she remembers as she lays in a hospital bed for six months…But first before anything else is Gold Sky.” Octavia broke into a gallop and heads to the train station for Canterlot.
***
Twilight thinks of the lie she said to Delta Scorch when she told him that she had no brothers and sisters, the reason for this, is that she didn’t want him to worry about the prospect of having a big brother watching his every move. But now that Delta is out of the way she focuses on her now prioritized main plan, which is trying to figure out how she will deal with Fluttershy.
Her mind revolve around many possible ideas, until guilt hits her like flower pot.
Twilight stops what she was doing and looks at a picture she took with Princess Celestia.
“I’m sorry Princess for accidentally cursing you with the illusion spell which was only meant for Gold Sky and Fleur de Les.” Twilight felt tears coming to her eyes.
“Twilight are you okay?” Asks Spike.
The Element of Magic quickly wipes away the tears from her eyes.
“Yes I’m okay Spike, I-I was reading a book and it…”
“Pride and Prejudice, huh? You never stop reading that book Twi, the ending always gets you. Do you want a hug?” Spike’s loving request made Twilight smile softly.
“Of course Spike.”
Spikes wrap his arms around her neck as he took her in a loving embrace.
“Feel better?” Spike whispers into her ear.
“Yup I feel better.” Twilight took a deep breath regaining her composure. “So how did it go with helping Big Macintosh?”
Spike lets go of Twilight, rolls his eyes, and shook his head.
“It was terrible! Like for the whole time I was there, Big Macintosh only said two words to me.”
“What did he say?”
Spike snorts out some smoke before answering.
“He said Scary dude! Why can he see that my cute little chubby cheeks make me look friendly! *Sigh* He sort of made Apple Bloom the messenger between me and him, man you should of seen her running back and forth. When we went inside for lunch he ate at the farthest section of the table away from me, so I guess not everypony is used to dragons.”
Twilight pats Spike on the shoulder. “It could of been worse Spike, it could have been worse.”
Spike just shrugs and went to the market to do some grocery shopping. Twilight meanwhile senses Fluttershy is planning something right now.
Twilight saw she can't counter Fluttershy’s pure disguised intentions. She can try to use telepathy on herself. But what if she messes up and harms herself instead. Can’t risk taking a chance but also can’t risk Fluttershy giving in to her mad love. Twilight will just have to roll the dice in Fluttershy's situation and see if Fluttershy is a mare of her word.
So for right now she'll just have to deal with Gold Sky, that stallion can easily handle the Royal guard so it’s best to find a way that open Celestia’s eyes and show her that the Royal guard cannot contain the prisoner.
“The Elite Commando guard can put him down if need be. Problem, Gold Sky is a blind sheep around Princess Celestia and Luna, he’ll do anything they say and because of that they see him as a harmless pawn. Hmmm.” Twilight entered deep thought, her eyes wonder around the library until she saw the book of being the perfect seducer.
Gold Sky’s words came back to her.
Twilight smiles because her mind instantly hatches a plan with a two possible endings.
“His Heart, his Pulse, Octavia his dear Octavia … the silver bullet to this equation, strike at the heart and it will unleash him. He’ll break out to protect Octavia, the Royal guards will come to apprehend him but his reasoning will be blinded by his anger and will automatically attack them because he will see them as a threat to Octavia. Perhaps some Royal guards will die, if that happens Princess Luna will undoubtedly dispatch her commandos. With two objectives…search and destroy or maim him severely. And there is where I call checkmate.” Twilight cackles manically.
“But first is…huh!? I’m not expected anypony today unless I didn’t check my schedule correctly.”
So Twilight went to answer the door to see who it was.
“Hey Twilight I’m wondering if you want to join me for some breakfast at the Sugarcube Corner.” Asked a cute and friendly Fluttershy.
Twilight’s left eye twitches softly.
“*Long sigh* Of course lets go.”
“Yay!” Squeals Fluttershy with full delight.
“I hope this night will be short.” Prays Twilight.
“MEEP!” Twilight feels Fluttershy nip her on the neck.
***
Octavia arrives at Canterlot. She does not know where to find the brig where Gold Sky is being held, but all she needs to do is follow her intuition.
So Octavia using the skills Princess Luna taught her, stealthily entered the palace avoiding the detection of the golden armored guards.
“Use the shadows to your advantage for everypony is afraid of the dark.” Luna’s teachings resonate in Octavia’s mind.
The gray mare slips from shadow to shadow. Each corridor she enters provides more shadows and fewer guards.
“Speed is not everything, use the precision of slow movement to mask your noise and keep the enemy unaware of your presence while having the advantage delivering a swift offence if necessary.”
Octavia saw the door to the brig with one guard. She drops down behind the guard and struck him behind the head.
“Cookies!” Chirps the guard as the world around him went black.
Octavia took his keys and enters the brig. "Oh there he is!"It did not take her long to find Gold Sky who sat in the corner of his cell.
A loving warmth spreads throughout her body.
“Gold Sky!” She cries out.
The Alicorn's heartbeat speeds up to its default rate as he hears the beautiful voice of his wife.
Octavia opens the cell door. She throws herself at Gold Sky causing both of them to fall into the floor.
Both stare into each other’s eyes. Teal and beautiful Grayish Purple.
Gold Sky passes his hoof over Octavia’s left cheek. His dear wife is with him, all is now well with the world.
Octavia brought her lips close to Gold Sky and share long loving kiss.
“Gold Sky I never got to finish telling you this. I forgive you and I love you with all my heart… you are my Heart and you are my Pulse. We shall always be one, no matter what happens we shall be together always.” Octavia feels his feathers rubbing against her body as his wings slowly wrapped around her.
Gold Sky felt he can die a full stallion now…forgiven.
Octavia got off of Gold Sky, got out of the cell, and turned to Gold Sky so he can follow.
“Well, what are you waiting for? Let’s go!”
Gold Sky closed his eyes and shook his head.
Octavia goes cold. “You can’t! Please Gold Sky come with me! I-I heard what Princess Celestia said to you! You will be killed for a crime you never committed!”
Gold Sky opens his eyes so he can see his Heart and his Pulse.
“Octavia my fate is already sealed…I cannot run away from it. I-I can’t.” He reveals with a voice of anguish.
Octavia feels stab her heart.
“No! You can’t do this, you just can’t please! You can’t leave me! Not like this. NOT LIKE THIS! We are one! Why can’t you see that!?” Octavia cries.
Her beloved Gold Sky is leaving her…why is this happening to her? She cannot live in a world without him. Her husband is letting himself be killed, because he believes his fate is already written in stone. Gold Sky the love of her life is stabbing her heart.
“I will watch over you Octavia, you may not see me but I will be with you. Please Octavia let me hold you one last time.” Gold Sky reaches out for her but she slaps his hoofs away.
“NO! DO YOU HONESTLY THINK I CAN LIVE WITHOUT YOU! DO YOU!?” Roars Octavia.
“Octavia please don’t say that, you can live your life without me…” Gold Sky got cut off.
“SHUT IT! I WILL HAVE TO LIVE MY LIFE WITHOUT YOU BECAUSE YOU LEAVE ME NO OTHER CHOICE!!! GOLD SKY WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ONE! WE ARE EACH OTHER’S HEART AND PULSE; YOU MADE THIS DECISION ON YOUR OWN GOLD SKY! YOU DECIDED TO LEAVE ME! WHY WILL YOU DO THIS TO ME?” Octavia turns her back to Gold Sky so he wouldn’t see her cry.
Gold Sky just feels alone, he feels Octavia slowly becoming numb.
“Octavia please, I will always be with you and I shall see your life through your own eyes an…”
“Don’t Gold Sky! Just frakken don’t. So this is how our marriage ends…you let yourself be taken away from me. I guess all these years we spent together are all a lie! Good-bye my love. Because I shall live forever alone, forever sad, forever I will live in misery.” Octavia runs out of the brig.
Gold Sky collapses, curls into the fetal position, and sobs.
He destroyed their marriage.
***
Princess Celestia stood on top of the highest tower of the palace upon looking where she knows where to look she bears witness to Octavia running out of the palace with tears flying out of her eyes.
Celestia frowns at seeing the last hope to persuade Gold Sky to live has failed.
“No reason… no hope…I’m sorry Octavia.”
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Next chapter will be mostly about Bon Bon and Twilight along with Fluttershy. Nightmare Moon strictly told me that she will do chapter 20, because 20 is her favorite number.
I am taking my time on chapter 5 of Octavia and the Alicorn's peace because that Fan Fic is my crown jewel.