Candy was a unicorn mare, with a mane that was striped purple and white. She had white fur and blue eyes. Her cutie mark was a notepad, and she used to be a nurse.
A few years before getting a job as a nurse, she had been foalnapped by a stallion who had tried to sell her. He had kept her for a week before she managed to escape, and she lived in fear of being foalnapped again.
Candy had just been going to the hospital where she worked when she was foalnapped by a bunch of stallions that had come out of nowhere. After foalnapping her, the group had taken her far from Canterlot. Somewhere near the Crystal Empire.
Then they had tied Candy to a pole, making her stand on her hind hooves, with her forehooves tied behind her back. When Candy had started screaming at them, one stallion had come and threatened to cut her tongue off if she didn't stop screaming.
Candy had immediately stopped screaming as it would be painful to get her tongue cut off. From where she was tied, Candy could see all the terrible things they did to the mares that weren't sold.
She didn't want to lose her virginity like this, so that night after the slavers had fallen asleep, Candy started rubbing her forehooves against the pole. It was a trick she knew that would get rid of the ropes tying her hooves.
She couldn't use magic because when they had caught her, the slavers had put a magic suppression ring on her horn. It had been three hours since Candy had started rubbing, and she thought, 'Just a little longer and then I'll be free.'
As soon as she had thought that, the rope snapped. Candy quickly untied her hind hooves and then ran.
In her haste, she knocked over a lantern that hit a bell, which turned an alarm on.
One of the slavers got out of his tent and saw Candy standing there like a deer caught in the headlights.
He then yelled, "The new mare's escaping!"
As soon as he said that, six stallions ran out of their tents and chased Candy.
The petrified mare ran as fast as she could and as far as she could. She ran for a full three hours before she stopped, out of breath and energy.
Candy could hear the slavers getting closer, and she was scared. She knew what they would do if they caught her, and she didn't like the sound of it.
She used all the energy she had to get up and start running. But near the gates of the Crystal Empire, her energy finished.
She collapsed on the ground, and the slavers had finally caught up with her.
Candy started shaking in fear and tried to get up, but her hooves gave up on her. She fell and when she thought that it was all over, that she would be killed or raped, a few guards came and saved her.
She fainted in her rescuer's hooves. While this was happening, King Sombra was in his throne room, talking to somepony.
A guard knocked on the doors of the throne room, and King Sombra said, "Come in."
The guard entered, bowed, and said, "My King, we've found a mare near the gates of the Empire."
"Where is she now?", asked the King.
"We have taken her to the dungeons.", replied the guard.
King Sombra said to the pony he had been talking to before the guard had come, "Come later."
The pony bowed and left, and the guard went with King Sombra to the dungeon.
King Sombra saw a white-furred mare with a purple and white striped mane. Her cutie mark was a notepad.
He thought, 'She could be a spy.'
King Sombra went inside the cell and asked, "What's your name?"
"C-Candy.", was the answer.
" You're a spy, aren't you? ", asked Sombra.
Candy replied, " I-I'm not a spy."
"Oh, really?", said Sombra. " Then why were you near the Crystal Empire? You're an equestrian. "
"I swear, I'm not a spy.", said Candy.
Sombra asked, " Then why did you come here?"
"I-I was foalnapped by slavers. They're sex-slavers, and I didn't want to be raped, so I escaped and they chased me, and they would've killed me if the guards didn't save me.", explained Candy.
"Hmm.", was all Sombra said. He walked closer to Candy, and she walked back.
She kept going back as he got closer until the wall prevented her from going any further.
She was cornered and shaking. She stuttered, "P-please d-don't hurt m-me."
"Why would I hurt you?", asked King Sombra.
But Candy was too scared to hear him. She shook more and kept saying, "Please don't hurt me. I'm not lying, I'm telling the truth."
Sombra got bored and said, "To stop you from having a panic attack, I'll look inside your mind and see if you're telling the truth."
Sombra did exactly what he had said, and found that the mare was telling the truth. He said, "I believe your story. You may stay in my castle to be safe."
"S-so you won't hurt me?", stuttered Candy.
"No, I won't.", said Sombra. "Celestia might have made you think that I'm heartless, but that's not true. Now come, I won't hurt you."
Candy slowly moved one hoof in front of the other. Sombra would've shouted if it had been anypony else, but he could see that this mare was scared. One wrong move and she'd be scared forever.
Once she was out, Sombra told a guard to take Candy to a guest room. The guard did as he was told.
After the guard left, Sombra said, "You could have a shower, if you want."
Candy was about to do that when Sombra said, "Come here."
Candy went confused, not knowing what he would do to her. But all that Sombra did was take her magic suppression ring off. She stuttered, "T-thanks, K-king Sombra."
To which Sombra replied, "You're welcome."
Candy went into the bathroom to shower and clean herself, and Sombra stayed where he was.
After she was fully clean, Candy dried herself and hung the towel. Then, she left the bathroom.
Her fur was shining like the crystal ponies, even though she wasn't one.
Her mane was also shiny. She sat next to Sombra, still a bit scared and asked, "So...You won't hurt me?"
Sombra put a hurt look on his face and said, "Why would I have given you a guest room, a free shower, a place to stay if I just wanted to hurt you?"
"I guess you're right.", was Candy's reply.
"I won't hurt you, from what I saw in your mind earlier, you've been through a lot.", said Sombra. "Get some rest, I'll send a guard to check on you later."
"Um, ok.", said Candy. "Thanks again!"
After Sombra had gone, closing the door behind him, Candy lay on the bed, sinking into the soft mattress. She pulled a blanket over her and drifted to the land of sleep.