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// The Gallows 
// Story: Shattered Harmony: Starfall 
// by NightmareTRXY32 
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As they were preparing to take Starlight to meet her fate, Pinkie was trotting around the site, constantly calling out,"Bring out yer Dead!,", at the top of her lungs. Where in Celestia's name did she get the idea for that, Twilight silently thought to herself.  Even Starlight bore a look of annoyance as Pinkie chimed out again," Bring out Yer Dead!," The convicted mare rolled her eyes for what might be the final time.  

"Pinkie,"Twilight spoke,"Knock that off,"she hinted, to which the pink mare actually stopped and furrowed her brow. 

"But it's fun to do Twi,", she said as she got her cheery demeanor back. Twilight facehoofed as she heard those start echoing through town again.

"Bring out Yer Dead!". 

Twilight reflected for a moment. She had saved the day yet again, stopped a crazy and misguided mare from keep her from her friends, and disrupting the timeline. And yet she still felt something clawing at her conscience. And it went away as soon as she remembered what Dash had told in not one, but three seperate timelines," Go get her Twi." 

And she did just that. 


No pony had been executed in at least one hundred years or longer. But this order was necessary, even if her sister Luna didn't agree with the practice, It did have its merits. And hopefully this was the last time she had to sentence anypony to this fate. Twilight and her friends, along with her brother Shining Armor, Princess Cadence, and Celestia's sister Luna, gathered on a wind swept hill a small ways away from Canterlot. A crowd of ponies had gathered to bear witness to the last moments of Starlight Glimmer.

There was no escaping this, no offer of a second chance. For her crimes, she was to be put to death. 

The last light of day
and I start my walk
down the blackened road
as I meet my fate
down down
down I go
Down to the Gallows I walk

"Starlight Glimmer, I princess Celestia, Goddess and raiser of the Sun, and ruler of all of Equestria, IN the name of the mother goddess and the light of Seven, Of the old gods and the new, Do hereby sentence you to Death."  She could stare into the fate she had brought upon herself.. It was useless she thought to herself, as the executioner lead down the walkway to the Gallows. She let herself become so consume by her quest for revenge that it never occurred to her to just seek out of the pony that had started her unexpectedly down this path she found herself on. 

Her heart stopped cold when she looked into the gathered crowd of ponies. There in the crowd, as plain as a bright sunny day, was her filly hood friend Sunburst, with the most unexpected pony standing next to him. His sister, Sunset Shimmer. She could only drop her gaze as Sunset stared at her, glaring daggers at her. Starlight looked up briefly to see Sunset walking over to Twilight and hugging her. .They were friends she thought? 

Not that it mattered to her anymore. She threw it all away anyway. Twilight had offered friendship back at the village and she rejected it. Called them all weak. Did she end up being on the wrong of that one. From what she remembered, Sunburst's sister had been a protege of the Princess, just like Twilight once was. She barely took notice of her surroundings now, she was too busy in thought to remotely recall what was going on around. It was her way of coping sometimes.  

As the thought left her, the Executioner tied the last art of the noose that was now snugly against her neck. When asked if she had any last words at all. She remained silent. But they all knew it, her silence was only just another sign or her guilt.  I was so foolish. I stole the Cutie Marks of an entire village of ponies that I had tricked and forced Equality on, stole a Time Spell in a mad quest for revenge. And what did it get me in the end? Nothing but the end of Noose for my transgressions. 

She paid no attention to the others as Celestia gave a nod. And with that her body felt as if it were screaming as the trapdoor opened and her body dropped through the bottom. Her hooves had been tied behind her back, so she couldn't even tug at the rope that was suffocating her now. Her entire body went slack not to long afterwards. As the rope around her neck drained the final vestiges of life from her body, Starlight uttered one word," Su..n... burst..", before finally dying. 

Starlight looked down to see her own body just hanging there, now completely lifeless. Her spirit turned around to see a thousand fiery and squirming , rotten hooves clamoring for her. She was about to spend the rest of eternity in the last place she had ever expected to ever see. A place that was told in stories to scary fillies into obeying their parents. She felt them wrap around her waist, clawing at her, dragging her down into the cold dark earth. 

So ends the tale of Starlight Glimmer. A mare so consumed with Revenge that she threw away any chance at friendship. And is now serving Eternity for her crimes in the last place anypony wants to ever end up. 

For her transgressions may she enjoy her new home.

And the thousand screaming souls that were clawing and dragging her down to her new resting place. The souls of the innocent and the damned cried out to her. 

And she could not turn away from them. She was theirs now, for all eternity, theirs to make suffer. 

As She was dragged down, she was greeted by a carving on the side of a cavern made entirely out of pony bones. It read: Abandon Hope All Ye who Enter. 

Or Better known in the common tongue as WELCOME TO TARTARUS.