//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 Festival Of Rust // Story: Broken Life Twilight's Fallen Angel // by Nightmarity19 //------------------------------// Twilight woke up with a massive headache like somepony hit her with a mallet hard or worse, somepony played a loud noise inside Twilight which made the headache somewhat worse. She got out of bed and walked downstairs to see her workplace from last night did not change but Twi's speech was improved as if she spent all night doing ti when all she remembers is being carried upstairs by a hooded figure, everything else was nothing but a blur like it never happened. My nervous nature is gone...that is odd seeing as how I was nervous before but now I feel confident and ready Twilight said to herself. She grabbed her speech, put it into her saddlebag then ran out the door where a big crowd of mares and stallions from different backgrounds gathered around the town to witness a speech that comes from the princess of friendship herself. In the background stood Sunset who watched the opening speech from above a tree, sitting on the branch enjoying what view she had. "Go on Twilight show them your stuff," Sunset said. The alicorn princess cleared her throat to silence the murmuring among everypony who decided to join this festival event. "Hello mares and gentlecolts I would like to welcome you to the 15th annual Sun Festival honoring our Princess Celestia who along with Luna paved the way to shape Equestria into what it is today. What does this Festival mean to me you ask? To me this Festival can help young fillies and colts to learn more about the history of Equestria," Twilight started to say. "So what now? We just wait until she wakes up or can we pour water over her?" Dash asked weighing options. "For right now I need you to keep an eye on her, I want her to see a familiar face when she wakes up," Rarity insisted. "Got it I'll stay here and hopefully she won't blast me again," Dash agreed but this time she was ready this time. Rarity left in a hurry out the door to join the opening speech, leaving Rainbow to hopefully have Luna recovered and not trying to tear her apart. "And that is why for the 15th year in a row I welcome everypony to the Ponyville Sun Festival," Twilight finished her speech. A roar of applause filled the town hall quickly with ponies cheering Twilight on, some even chanted her name. Twilight liked this new appreciation but began to notice a lone stallion leaving the area. Go after him my love he plans to sabotage this proud moment Sunset said to Twilight telepathically. Twi's eyes changed into crystal blue as she teleported towards a beach where the stallion was trying to escape from but was stopped by Twilight's magical blast to his head, not enough to kill him so Twilight grabbed a rock and started bashing the stallion's head with it 41times until he stopped twitching or moving at all. She then wrapped up the body into a body bag, tossed it into the water letting his body drift above water. "Good girl Twilight I am very proud," Sunset said kissing her. She held on to Shimmer, not letting go from their make out session as Twi rubbed her back making the demoness moan while kissing more. Rarity meanwhile was having fun with some fillies playing ball while Dash was killing it on the karaoke machine. For some reason everything was going as planned but something wasn't right and it was Twilight couldn't bring herself to have some fun in this festival. Something isn't right Dash thought as she walked over to Rarity. "You feel it too I hope," Rarity said. Rainbow nodded slowly. "It's as if Twilight doesn't want to attend her own festival, I hope she comes soon," Rarity sounded worried almost to tears. "Hey, hey, hey it's ok maybe she's handling something," Dash said hugging her friend. Rarity sobbed quietly onto the cyan blue pegasi's chest as Rainbow stroked her mane reassuring her. A church came into view that had no cross but a star around the front doors, Twilight walked in hood still over her head while looking around to see wooden long chairs but was focused on the alter. She walked over there noticing Sunset's cutie mark placed above the podium that stood in front of that tarp. This must be the place Sunset was talking about Twilight thought. "Are you sure she is ready to achieve her goal to be a part of our religion?" one hooded mare asked. "Trust me she's more than capable to join us," Sunset replied. They all peered through the window to watch Twilight do what others think is impossible. Twilight picked up a note with the words: Drink from me to begin your new journey. "Hmm this should be interesting," Twilight said. Drinking the black liquid, the room she was in fell apart into what looked like hell but a different outlook on it without demons flying around and the Devil coming over to welcome her into his domain then showing her the endless suffering of ponies who have done wrong, ones who deserve this immense pain by any means. No, this was different from which made her smile being into an almost smirk. "Let the games begin," Twilight said, her eyes turning back into their normal color. Rainbow flew above Ponyville searching for any signs of Twilight but couldn't find one simply the fact that all the places she looked, she wouldn't be there. Rarity on the other hand was walking down on the Harbor when she felt something underneath her. Looking at her hoof she let out a blood turning shrill scream so loud ponies could hear it for miles even Dash who zoomed over to see why Rarity was screaming. Rarity stepped in some blood that bled into the sand, leaving a trail leading out into water. "How in the world did this end up here?" Dash asked. "I don't know but whatever happened they should at least give us a warning about stepping in blood," Rarity said frantic. Dash rolled her eyes then went over to a rock that had blood on it like somepony had used it to bash someponies head in. Somepony had a death wish for this poor stallion or mare Dash investigated which was rare for her to do. She put the rock down before going back to Rarity and saw she had her left off cleaned of blood. "I see you're clean," Dash joked. "That is not funny Rainbow! We stumbled upon a real life murder of an innocent pony, we don't know if this stallion or mare could come back to finish the job," Rarity speculated that somepony would capture and kill them. "You think too much, right now we need to find Twilight," Dash said keeping her friend back on track. Rarity brought her focus back to finding Twilight and followed Dash to another location unknowing that 2 hooded figures who were with Sunset earlier watched those two mares walk away from the beach. They smirked at each other. Meanwhile, Twilight hiked up a mountain higher than usual she reached the summit where she saw a mirror version of herself the good version of herself; a side she now wants gone. "To achieve victory in this challenge you must first let yourself go to embrace darkness in your heart," Sunset whispered in her ear. She nodded as if on command and faced her doppelganger, the gentle wind blew through her cloak and moved quickly to do a spinning hoove kick to her face and she hit a piece of a rock formation that formed a spear. "Yes Twilight kill yourself for your lover," Sunset said placing a kiss on her cheek motivating Twilight. What she did to the alicorn princess caused the purple eyes to change back to crystal blue. She walked toward her double and ripped her head off as blood rained out like a waterfall as the body dropped to the ground. "Impressive," the hooded mare said. Sunset was thoroughly impressed with the display Twilight had just did to a mirror version of herself. I do believe she is ready to join us but there are still more challenges she has to face but my lustful lover is capable enough to handle the pressure Sunset thought smirking.