//------------------------------// // The King Recounts // Story: Cronus is King // by fanficlover 1 //------------------------------// Ch 9 It was sometime later when I began to regain consciousness. At that point, I noticed three things, 1: I was naked, 2: I was in a cell, and 3: I had company. Said company were the six ponies from Ponyville I had met, Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy, and my lawyer Feathers Worth though he looked like he wasn’t doing so good. Not sure what to do, I simply covered my naked crotch and waited for someone to speak (It’s hard to think of something when you’re naked). The first person to speak was none other than Feathers. “I told you not to do it.” Considering what had happened, I wasn’t disagreeing this time. “I can’t believe i’m saying this but, Cronus, you are to be executed noon tomorrow by beheading. As you had no will before the preceding, all property that you own has been seized by the crown and is now under care by the royal archives directory. I am also legally obligated to inform you that all ties that we had are now severed and I am no longer your lawyer.” Feathers began coughing but he seemed to be done and simply left the room leaving me with the six ponies. “I take it that Princess Celestia wanted you six to catch me?” “Yes she asked us to catch you so you can be dealt with accordingly. Personally though I wanted to know the truth.” I perked up at Twilight’s words. “Applejack says that Celestia lied to us when she was explaining about what happened to her sister Luna, do you have any idea what she may be talking about?” “Something happened to Luna?” Twilight nodded. “Yes. Celestia says that a displaced, one of your kind, turned her into Nightmare Moon after the war against displaced.” “I take it that Nightmare Moon is some kind of demon or such thing?” They all nodded. “Well I have no clue about any of that stuff, I literally appeared in this world only two days ago so there’s no way I could have been apart of that.” Applejack stepped forwarded after that. “If you don’t know anything about the war back then, then I want you to answer me truthfully.” I nodded in acceptance of her request, it wasn’t like there was anything else I could do. “Why did you help my family?” “Because they needed help and I could do something.” Applejack simply stared at me for a second before closing her eyes and looking downward as though in defeat. “You’re tell’n the truth.” “Of course I would, i’m not the kind of person to just let something bad happen when I can do something to fix it, Not anymore, at least.” Applejack looked back to me with pleading in her eyes this time. “Then why did you dream of killin’ your own sister in cold blood?” There were tears in hers eyes but she continued. “Why would you create a fire that would hurt innocent people? Why would… why would you be so cruel then.” Some many emotions were on her face but the most prominent one seemed to be desperation, the desperation for me to say something to assuage her feelings of fear, doubt, hurt, and uncertainty. “How did you know I dreamt those things?” “Princess Luna looked into your dreams to see if she could find any information about you. It all made sense then, why my dream had seemed so different yet still the same, because someone was there watching me. “I see.” I wanted to feel rage about what Luna had done but I wasn’t sure I could, not with some pony crying so close to me about how unsure she seemed to be. “ That dream, is a nightmare, one that has haunted me for the last 5 years.” Not sure what else to say and with death so close on the horizon, I figured it would be best just to explain myself. “5 years ago, when I was just out of highschool, I got in with a bad crowd of people. These people were the worst kind of scum you could associate with but they were the only people I could to help keep my sister safe. They did every crime you could think of ranging form petty theft to full on murder. One day, one of the members of the group decided to quit, don’t know why exactly, and the boss wasn’t happy. So in response, the boss took me and three other guys to the man who quit’s house and began to beat the living hell out of him. When they were finished, the began spreading gas all over the place and gave me the match to light it. I didn’t know what to do and eventually caved in to the pressure. That was when my sister came running in. Apparently she had seen me leave our apartment and decided to follow after to try and stop whatever I was doing. It was to late though, as the fire had already begun. Unprepared for the surprise, the man who quit quickly got the drop one the ones holding him down causing panic to occur. Fire was being sent left and right and bullets weren’t far behind them. To put a long and horrible story short. I and my sister were the only survivors but she was burnt, burnt well beyond what any human, especially a little girl could live through.” I started to tear up as I began imagining her face and voice during that horrible night. “She begged me to help her, to help make the pain go away but there was nothing I could do. Nothing except put her out of her pain and suffering. After that, I was tried with assisted arson of another person’s property but not murder as my fingerprints were already gone by that point. With the lack of evidence, I was soon let out of prison and back into a world without my sister, the same sister that I had to kill.” I couldn’t speak anymore and could only sob in grief for what I had done. The sound of an opening door filled the room before it closed but I didn’t care, I just wanted to cry until I couldn’t any longer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Applejack POV) While I had finished crying rather quickly after talking to Cronus, I could still hear his cries even outside the the dungeons, though it was drowned in the hustle and bustle from above. “I can’t believe he had to do all that.” It was Rainbow Dash who said that, and I had to agree with the sentiment. While at first I felt that my instincts had been wrong and it began to leave me with doubt that people cruel enough to hurt my family without me knowing it could get close enough before I could do anything, Cronus story proved to me that I could still feel the truth of whatever anypony or person said, even if I wished it wasn’t true. Not speaking after hearing such a horrible and heartbreaking story, we all made are way out of the parthenon at a slow pace ( not even Rainbow Dash would fly like she usually did). Nearing the entrance/exit to the building, I noticed a slight flutter of something but decided to pay it no mind as I had other things on my mind now.