//------------------------------// // The negotiation // Story: A reunion with a Star pupil. // by Eli The sad story-er //------------------------------// Grogar was taken to Canterlots thrown room by the Royal Sisters. He didn't resist. He knew that they knew that he was easily more powerful than the both of them combined. He simply wanted to talk. But the platoon of guards seem to think otherwise. "Where is the new Royal?" Grogar asked smugly. "This does not involve Twilight. This is between the three of us." Celestia said in a stern serious tone. "Well four of us actually." Grogar said while turning his head to look at Starlight. "It used to be about just two of us." "Enough!" Celestia said. "Guards take Miss Glimmer to my private chambers keep her there until our business has concluded." "Very well your highness." The guards replied instantly and did as they were told. "The rest of you leave." Grogar said ushering to the rest of the guards. "You do not give orders here." The captain of the guards said. Grogar stared daggers at the pony. "Now." The ponies were terrified and immediately left. It was just the three of them Celestia, Luna and Grogar. "Well My little nieces. Shall we begin." Grogar said smiling. Luna was disgusted "We are not family you abomination." "Oh i know.... but your mother was such an old friend i feel like we are." Grogar still had his smile. Celestia said in her most intimidating voice "Don't speak about her again." Grogars expression finally changed from smiling to frowning. "Fine! lets get to the matter at hoof....." ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Up in Celestias private chambers Starlight was sobbing. As more and more memories of her past came flooding back to her. She remembered the time when she crying her eyes out because Sunburst hadn't replied to her letter. Grogar came into her room and asked. "What are you crying about my dear?" "S....s.....Sunburst hasn't replied to any of my letters. I've written him 5 and he hasn't replied." "He hasn't replied because they haven't reached him." "Starlight stopped crying and looked at him. "What?" Grogar showed Starlight the letters she had written for her friend and he burned them right in front of her face. "YOU IDIOT!!!!" He yelled at her. "HE WASN'T YOUR FRIEND HE WAS YOUR ENEMY I AM THE ONLY FRIEND YOU NEED! NOW FOCUS ON YOUR STUDIES!!!" He left and slammed the door. Starlight felt an emptiness. She didn't resume crying.... she simply did nothing. Suddenly Starlight was taken out of her flashback by a knock on the door. "Yes" she answered. Sunburst came into the room and hugged her. "I'm so glad your ok." He said as he squeezed her tight. Starlight was emotionless she had a blank expression on her face. "I'm not so sure i am Sunburst." _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "It's Unacceptable. Unforgivable. To take one of my own." Grogar said. "She is a pony." Celestia said. "Ergo she is MY OWN!" "By the way, is she keeping up with her mind manipulating magic?" Grogar said retrieving his smug superior expression. He was enjoying this. "She's not performing any Mind Manipulation Magic." A voice came from behind Grogar. Every one turned to see Twilight. Who had an extremely angry expression on her face. "Well, well, well. I thought you weren't here Twilight Sparkle." "And i thought you were a villain from a book. Nothing more." "Did you say she wasn't performing any mind manipulation? Twilight, don't you know she has to? She must. Or perhaps you're worried she'll love it too much. She might still love me at heart." "Oh you'd like that." Luna said angrily. "Yes. Though it seems She has completely turned away from me. Correct Tia?" "Correct." Celestia said shamefully. "Then tell us why you want her." Twilight interrogated "It's one of your self-fulfilling prophecies, isn't it?" "Well, one does dream of the cataclysm. And it's coming sooner than any of you expect." Grogar said. "Then why do you need her? You seem so sure that you'll win then why not do it without Starlight, You are up to something Grogar." Celestia said. "Me? I may write the script, but the characters have a tendency to do as they please. You, for example Luna, have an unseemly choice. Now, Tia, will you be reasonable and give me my pony?" "I'm not one to cause trouble. But I need to think about all this. I won't make a decision hastily." "You know, I always get what I want, in the end." Grogar said looking to Twilight. Suddenly a door opened and Starlight walked though it. Grogar walked up to Starlight. "Will you come with me?" He asked her. "Your decision needs to be made now. Join me.... or suffer the same consequences as these usurpers." He said pointing to the three pony princesses. "No... I will not." Starlight said firmly. "You are my biggest consequence for the remarkably stupid decisions i made in my past I wish i was not as powerful as i am because then you wouldn't have wanted me on your side." Grogar gave Starlight a frank look. "Understand something, Starlight. When I made you a ruler of your own city, it was not because I thought you had any value to me or specialty of any kind. It was because I thought you were the most gullible pony in all of Equestria. A hopeless, naive moron." Starlight felt heartbroken. "Then I was not chosen for my prowess?" "I only made you a ruler because I needed some pony who would quietly get more and more followers to join her and eventually even have ponies born in her ideology so they would become an army at your beck and call that would never disobey you. Until I was ready to take over Equestria myself. However you have chosen a different path. Instead of being that great pony i knew you could be you decided to become a principal.... A PRINCIPAL!! That's the lowest of the low. Well, soon you and your friends will be defeated, capture or killed. This pitiful building will be demolished and I will be done with you." Grogar then left. Leaving Starlight to feel broken and defeated. One last twist of the knife to maker her feel worthless. "He's wrong..... Starlight there is no other way to put it he's wrong.... our friendship was true. One day your going to remember that..... and your going to remember how much i love you... I remember the first time i ever met you... you were so angry and so lost.... But i saw the good you could do.... the true power you were capable of... and so i changed you for the better... And at that moment i decided i would do anything for you.... anythingI gave you a home, a family. I can honestly say you were one of my very best friends....." Starlight had tears streaming down her face. "Thank you Twilight." "You are my Star pupil." She said. They hugged each other.