Earlier that day...
Manaquire had teleported back to Canterlot's throne room to find Princess Celestia and all six element bearers waiting for him. He noted that they had the elements of harmony at the ready and upon seeing this, he smirked.
"So you found your precious elements, well now I can really have some fun" he stated with a grin and telekinetically flung Celestia to the other side of the room and erected an invisable barrier to keep her seperated from the elements and their respective weilders.
"Quickly girls use the elements before he has a chance to attack!" Twilight commanded but shrunk down in fear as Manaquire towered over them, a menacing grim on his face.
"You know full well they won't work the way you want them to Miss Sparkle" he said, even his formalities sounded dangerous to the group of mares.
"And besides" he continued. "You would have to attack the source if you ever hope to defeat me".
Before any of them could get a word in his eyes glowed and as he stepped away, Celestia watched as all six mares had glazed over eyes and an aura of red magic surrounding them as Manaquire got to work.
"Just what are you doing to them?" The Princess demanded.
"Oh I'm giving them their own personel nightmare that's all" he replied casually and waved a claw in dismissal.
"How can you just stand there and do this to them, what right do you have to torture innocent ponies like this?" Celestia exclaimed.
Her outrage was clearly visible as she rose to her full height and attempted to engage the dragon in combat.
She fired the full might of her magic at him, the resulting blast lit up the room like a firework's display and as the smoke cleared the princess of the sun gasped in horror as her results came to light; even though she had hit him at full strength there was not even a single mark or scratch to show she had been successful.
"But how, that was raw magic.." Celstia was at a loss asto how he could have survived the attack.
"No Princess, that was nothing compared to the things iIve been through, believe me when I say there are far more dangerous beings out there" Manaquire replied but smirked as he noticed that his illusion spell was taking its toll on the main six.
"And now Princess Celestia your heroines are useless, your sister imprisoned and your greatest foe left to his own devices. So I ask you this, ruler of equestria, what now?" manaquire bragged as he lowered the barrier to allow the truth to sink.
Each of the six mares had undergone a severe mental transformation, Rarity and Applejack were sobbing quietly in a corner, the once proud and boastful Rainbow Dash was a quivering mass of fur and feathers on the ground, terrified beyond all sense of sanity, The once kind and caring Fluttershy was stiff and unmoving, her eyes void of any emotion, any compassion as if she was locked away in her own world of tragdey and finally Celestia locked eyes with her faithful Student Twilight Sparkle and calmly and quietly walked towards her and reached out a hoof to confort her.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" Twilight screamed and scrambled away from her mentor as fast as her hooves could carry her.
This sudden out burst shocked Celestia and she once more tried to help her student.
"Twilight It's me...Princess Celstia"
"Oh I know who you are!" Twilight growled as a mix of fear and anger flashed her eyes. "And I said to get away from me, you won't come near me you here!"
Confused as to why her prized pupil was acting so strangely the princess tried all she could to reason with Twilight.
"Twilight please I'm not going to hurt you!"
"No stay away! STAY AWAY!"
"I-Twilight what is going on? Why are you acting like this?"
"No you won't come near me, not now not ever..I-iIwon't let you" Twilight's voice faltered as her fear of her teacher increased and she once more tried to scramble away, only to be met with the wall of the palace.
"Please Twilight..." Clelstia begged softly, putting every ounce of kindness into her words. "I promise i won't hurt you, i promise nopony will everhurt you, just stop, Please Twilight.."
Celestia reached out a golden shod hoof to her beloved and most precious pony...and reeled back in shock as Twilight slapped it away and teleported out of sight. Dejected and horrified at these turn of events Princesses Celestia could only stare at her hoof in shock as her mind tried to comprehend what had transpsired.
Manaquire watched the entire scene with a bitter taste in his mouth, he knew he had gone to far. He regained his composure and flashed a cocky grin at the downtrodden princes.
"Well what do you know, I win" he said to her with a tone of faked glee that nopony seemed to notice.
What all of them failed to notice was the disappearance of a certain pnik, party lobing earth pony...
i hated writing that..two sad chapters in a row yeesh...anyway please comment, and thanks for the 20-something faves, next chapter we go back to The Lyra Saga
EDIT: what was going to be the next chapter has been added onto Lyra Saga 1, next chapter is a whooping 1000 word chappie about stuff that i had a lot of fun writing!