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// Chapter 47: "What Have I Done to You, Princess Twilight?" 
// Story: The Redemption of Tempest Shadow 
// by twilightsparkle3562 
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"What have I done?!" Tempest gasped, as she realized what had just transpired. "Princess Twilight, crying because of me? It makes everything that has happened seem all for nothing, and brands me…as a monster." Lowering her head in shame, Tempest walked out of the castle and into the streets of the Crystal Empire. She returned to the stadium where she had been training, but she wasn't there to train. Instead, she just sat in one of the stadium stands, and sighed heavily. There she sat in silence for a full hour, thinking of why this would happen so quickly. Once the hour was up, she was joined by the last pony she would've expect to see.

"Fizzlepop!" Called a voice and Tempest turned to see Razzle Fizzle standing behind her. "I thought I'd find you here."

"Why are you here, Razzle?" Tempest hissed. "Here to tell me you were right along? Because I know that already."

Razzle Fizzle shook her head. "I wanted to see if you were okay. They're taking Princess Twilight back to Canterlot to be psychiatrically evaluated from what I hear."

"More than likely because of me, Razzle," Tempest sadly sighed. "I put her in this situation and if there is anypony to blame for it, it's me."

"Then, why don't you tell her that you're sorry?" Razzle offered, sitting down next to her sister.

"Because that's not how it works!" Tempest huffed. "I can't just simply say to Twilight that I'm sorry for what I did. I…I know this may sound silly, but during the invasion of Canterlot, I stomped on Princess Twilight's Friendship Festival crown and ever since then, it's come alive and been giving me advice."

"Perhaps the crown was important to Twilight and you didn't know that?" Razzle suggested. "How would you feel if I stomped on something that was of tremendous value to you? I know it may not seem important to you, Fizzlepop, but it is to her."

"What makes you think that, Razzle?!" Tempest indignantly remarked. "You've never even seen the crown yourself! I thought it was just some stupid crown when I stepped on it! And yet now it's been giving me advice!"

"I know how some material things are of great value to other ponies," Razzle countered, her anger slowly rising once again. "And that they sometimes represent others in a light you have never seen before. It's time that you understood, that there's more to the princesses than just their magic. They ponies like you and me, and they have feelings too! Perhaps you've forgotten that fact, but I have not!"

Tempest sighed in irritation as she attempted to get up and leave, only to be forcefully sat back down by Razzle Fizzle. "Don't you walk away from me, Fizzlepop Berrytwist!" Razzle Fizzle cried, forcing her sister back onto her rear end. "Because for the first time since your wrath of anger on Canterlot, an alicorn princess that you mercifully hunted for her magic, is revealing for the first time why she is suffering, all because of you and your obsession!"

"There you go again, Razzle, trying to admonish me for my actions!" Tempest snapped. "Why don't you just back off?! I don't need a reminder of how royally I screwed up!"

"Don't you get it?! You hurt them both physically and mentally, Fizzlepop, when you turned them to stone!" Razzle snapped. "Can't you see why I've been angry at you?! These are just simple alicorn ponies that have never done anything to you, so why would you hurt them? Because you're jealous that they have horns and you don't?! Is that it?!"

"Now, you're just being unreasonable, Razzle!" Tempest coldly remarked.

"I'm being unreasonable?!" Razzle cried, a hint of disgust in her voice. "You know, you should be really lucky that you aren't serving a jail sentence in Tartarus or being put to death for your actions, Fizzlepop! The princesses care about their subjects and most importantly, they care about you and me! They want to see us be sisters again! But," She added, calming down. "I'm not going to be one of those ponies who brands you as a monster. I can't brand you as a monster, Fizzlepop, no matter what I may feel. Because you are my sister, and I want us to be sisters again."

Tempest was beginning to have enough of her sisters admonishes and was thinking at that moment of some way to escape her sister's impendent wrath.

"But, no matter what you do going forward, whether you become Princess Twilight's Royal Guard Captain or not, there will be ponies in Equestria who will now and forevermore brand you as a monster, Fizzlepop! But, I know nothing would help Princess Twilight more than if we can just work on our relationship. If this is a sign of something that needs to be done, then we need to start now."

Just then, the two sisters heard the loud sobs and cries of Twilight Sparkle coming from a distance away and it was at that moment that Tempest knew what needed to be done: she and Razzle needed to work on their relationship.






Later that night, Tempest returned to her room and lay in her bed once again unable to sleep and staring up at the ceiling. She then looked towards the Friendship Festival crown again, the very crown that had triggered the raw emotions that Twilight had been holding in. However, as she looked at it, Tempest noticed that several more pieces of the crown had come back together.

"Guess talking with Razzle must have put a few more pieces back together," Tempest thought to herself as she stared at the crown. "Sooner or later, I'm going to find out the truth about you, whoever you are. I'm still sure that you're a figment of my imagination, but if Razzle and I repair our relationship, then maybe I can finally find out the truth about you, and why you're bothering me."

With those thoughts, Tempest fell asleep knowing about what needed to be done: she and her sister must reconnect. And with Twilight out of commission, this task was more important than it ever was before.