Chapter Three: Dinner Talk and Death of the Crystal King
Sombra was waiting in his chair very anxiously as the king rattled on with his useless idle chat about trade and the market economy and whatever else that there was. Sombra put on a fake smile, but in reality he really didn’t care that much for politics or idle chat and talk, in fact the only thing he recalled earlier was that this was a very large, very wide, very vast, very impressive, very grand, and very regal castle.
That was all, oh, and the brief conversation that they had about how glad the king was to finally meet him as he shook hooves nervously with him.
But Sombra smiled deviously and replied, “No, I’m very glad to meet you.”
And with that said the king had taken him to the dining room.
It was a fine room for a few gusts and the hallway for dining was just as large and impressive as the castle, but the room, it was small and simple instead.
“How can you have a room this small for eating?” Sombra said when he first saw it. “It’s for nobles or
royalty or just guests in general when I want to have a very small tiny little talk with them, does that make since?” he said.
“Very much so,” and with that said the King continued to talk on then.
Eventually the food and drinks did come, and when they did Sombra made very sure that no pony noticed him when he slipped the poison in the king’s glass.
And then right before they began to eat Sombra decided to do a very old classic cliché move, “A toast for the king,” he said raising his glass high, “May you ever live long and may your reign be very glorious and
very prosperous indeed.”
And with that said the king sipped his cup and then started to choke.
“That would be the poison working in your blood and veins,” Sombra said very calmly as the king gasped for breath as his face turned gray.
“It’s very fast acting and you’ll be dead in a moment, but this poison also has the very odd and strange effect of turning you into dust, and I put it in your cup, and please don’t think of this as personal, because it is not.”
And with that said the king leaned over his chair and then died.
He shouted that the king had been poisoned, and the guards all came rushing in and soon enough they were all dead due to a killing spell that Sombra learned, any who didn’t die had no loyalty to the king.
But soon enough the whole entire court was dead and he knew that he couldn’t hold off the kingdom forever, and that is why he now needed to change, and to do that he would have to go there and then kill her to become very strong.