//------------------------------// // Chapter 20: rescue Cadence // Story: Twilight sparkle lord of death // by Dark1777 //------------------------------// In the ancient ruins "Okay, let's started..." Twilight said while lying down on grass in the ruins, she closed her eyes and began to enter the space inside her heart. In Twilight's Heart Space Twilight opened her eyes, around is still endless darkness. "hnm... Nothing's changed here..." she said as she began to look around. "Yes, my master... Looks like the link between Dark Void and Dark Queen is still stable..." Death commented. "But if the connection is still normal... Then what was the piece of emotion I felt before?" Twilight wondered while using her magic and started looking for traces of the emotion she felt earlier. "I don't know either... But it seems that piece of emotion wasn't born from your heart, master," said Death. Twilight wanders around in her heart space and looks for the piece of emotion... "I think we'll know where it's coming from soon..." Twilight paused as she saw a faint blue light ten feet away from her. Twilight moved closer to the light to take a closer look. The spot of light was almost obscured by the aura of darkness, but somehow it still glowed despite being enveloped in darkness, and it made her feel very familiar "this is it... The piece of emotion that you and I felt before" Twilight said while observing the faint light that was covered in darkness. "It's strange... How can it still exist in this place? Looking at what Dark Void's darkness is doing to it, this proves there isn't anything wrong with the link between Dark Void and Dark Queen,... But how could this thing still glow like that even when covered by the darkness of Dark Void, and more importantly,... How could it still not be swallowed up by Dark Void?" Death said. Death was surprised to see that the light was still glowing, even though the darkness was constantly swallowing its light, as if Dark Void swallowed as much light, it produced as much light. .. This was the first time Death had seen something that could stand up to the corrosion of Dark Void like that... "...This thing..." Twilight hesitated "What's wrong, my master?" Death asked. "No... It's just... This makes me feel very familiar..." Twilight stared at the blob, she used her magic to find the source of the light, "I don't know where this thing came from... But, if it wasn't born of my heart, it must have come here by some way, a path that leads from some pony's heart come here... And if that's the case then... Dark Void could also go through that path to that pony's heart-..." Twilight suddenly stopped, her eyes widening at the sight the form of a familiar pink Alicorn emerged from her tracing magic. "T... This is... Cadence? H... How?" Twilight asked surprised, she didn't know how Cadence's feelings got here. "You mean love princess? I was quite impressed with her being able to enter your heart before,... But to my surprise, she was able to create a bond between her soul and yours" Death commented, this is the first time he's seen a creature that could not only enter the heart of one of Lord Of Balance but also created a bond between two souls, not only that the emotional piece from the heart of that love princess can survive and resist the corrosion of Dark Void like that. "Soul link? When did she create it? How did she create it?" Twilight asked, she knew Cadence's love magic was very strong, but she didn't think it could be that strong. "I don't know how she can created a bond between your soul and hers,... But perhaps she created it accidentally when she entered your heart" said Death. "Anyway, I have to get to her quickly before Dark Void completely devours her soul-" Twilight stopped suddenly as she felt a drastic change in emotions coming from the blip. Go back inside the ruins Twilight suddenly opened her eyes, she quickly got up and ran out of the ruins. "Why can't I feel the bond she made between us?" Twilight said while running. 'I don't think she even realizes that she made that link, but it's really dangerous for her, even though her magic is stronger than I thought, but she still can't fully control that power of herself, and Dark Void never misses any soul, at first it will make that soul feel despair, that soul sinks deeper into despair, the faster the corrosion process will take place, and eventually it will completely swallow that soul.' Death said. 'But the scarier thing about Dark Void is that after that soul was swallowed, that soul will fall to the deepest part of Dark Void, where have many dark creatures, all of them are The souls of creatures that once threatened the balance of universe were destroyed by Dark Queen and trapped in Dark Void, after they were swallowed up by Dark void, their souls perished imprisoned at the bottom of Dark Void, they were gradually assimilated by Dark Void and transformed into creatures of darkness' Death explained. Twilight listened to all of that, blaming herself for letting her guard down and letting Cadence create that soul link 'I should have checked sooner!' With that in mind she quickly used her magic to find the current location of Cadence, 'Canterlot hospital! Cadence, I'll definitely save you' Twilight quickly used her magic and teleported to Canterlot Hospital. At Canterlot Hospital All the nurses and doctors in the hospital run around looking for a way to wake up love princess. Just a few minutes ago Princess Mi Amore Cadenza's condition began to worsen, despite numerous tests, all the results showed that Princess Cadence's body was completely normal, but even No matter what they do, they can't wake the princess up, and what's worse is that her magic and life are slowly fading away. Suddenly the hospital door opened, Twilight rushed into the hospital, she caught a nurse and asked "Where is Princess Cadence?" nurse looked at Twilight fearfully, she felt a deathly cold flash in Twilight's eyes, it felt like she was standing before a death. Trembling she replied "s... S... She... She... She's... in emergency room " to which Twilight dropped the nurse and rushed to the emergency room. In front of the emergency room Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Main Five, Spike, Shining Armor were standing in front of the emergency room door, just a few minutes ago they felt Cadence's magic fading away. "How could this happen? How could that get to Cadence?" Princess Celestia whispered, she and Luna used their full strength to try to pull Cadence out of sleep but were all repelled by what was swallow her niece's soul. She had never felt such fear before, the curse that had swallowed all of her students' emotions was now swallow her niece's soul, helplessness spread through her trembling body, she didn't even realize she was crying. Suddenly the sound of hooves sounded, all ponies turned to look, their eyes widen when they saw who was running towards them, the pony they thought she had left them forever, the pony they thought will never be able to meet again, the pony that they had hurt so much, is running towards them. "Twilight!!", "Twily!!" all exclaimed in surprise, "you're back!!" they ran to her. Shining Armor ran over to hug his sister "Twily!! I thought I'd never see you again!! I'm really sorry Twily!! I-" Before Shining Armor could finish, Twilight cut him off. . "No time to talk, I need to get in there," Twilight said coldly as she looked in the direction of emergency room. "How do you know there's something wrong with Cadence?" Princess Celestia asked. "I'll explain later, I need to get in there before it's too late" Twilight replied and headed for the emergency room door. "What are you going to do Twilight?" Apple Jack asked, but Twilight didn't answer, she opened the door and entered the emergency room, Princess Cepestia, Princess Luna, Main Five, Spike, Shining Armor followed her, trusting Twilight to never harm Cadence. Twiligh walked towards the operating table, all the doctors were surprised at her appearance, just as they were about to kick her out, but they were stopped by Princess Luna and Princess Celestia "don't worry, she's coming here to help" said Princess Luna, the doctors hesitated a bit before stepping back. Twilight looked at Cadence for a moment before starting to close her eyes, she focused her magic on her horn and created a black magic rope that linked to Cadence's horn, when the magic rope touched Cadence's horn, the Dark aura appeared from Cadence's horn and covered the magic rope, but Twilight's magic rope broke the dark aura, and linked with Cadence's horn, Twilight began to enter Cadence's heart. Inside Cadence's Heart A gray flame flared in Cadence's heart, and as the flame disappeared to reveal Twilight, Twilight looked around in search of Cadence. 'This is...?' 'Dark Void has invaded her heart, master' said Death 'I have to find her quickly and stop this.' Twilight uses magic to find traces of Cadence's magic. "Here it is, even though it's weak, I can feel her magic coming from this way" Twilight ran back to the direction of Cadence's magic. In front of Twilight, Cadence sitting, more than half of her body submerged in the dark puddle below her, her head bowed, she kept crying and whispering about how useless she was for not being able to save Twilight, her eyes filled with despair, she didn't notice Twilight, or even about her sinking into a dark puddle. Twilight tried calling Cadence several times, but without success. 'I need to get Cadence out of this' Twilight shot magic beams at those that were clinging to Cadence's body and being careful not to hit injured Cadence, but black tendons sprouted from the dark puddle and wrapped up Cadence's body again 'these are all made by Dark Void, although this is only a small part of Dark Void, they are not easily destroyed, master' Death explained. "In that case, there's only one way to remove all traces of Dark Void in here!" Twilight said, gray flames covered her body, when the flames disappeared she took on the same form as when she fought with Queen Changeling, she wore black armor with a grey mane and tail sparkke with galaxy, her eyes glowed with icy blue, the black bone wings sprouting from her back. Twilight concentrates magic on her horn and creates a gray flame, the flame covers her horn and begins to create a vortex of fire, the gray fire vortex rapidly grows larger and spreads everywhere in the space of Cadence's heart, it began to burn more fiercely and consume the darkness of Dark Void. But that wasn't enough to remove all of Dark Void's darkness, Twilight poured more power into her horn, her body levitating into the air, her eyes wide, gray flames oozing out of the corners of her eyes. Her gray magic blazed more intensely, unleashing a terrifying wave of fire across the entire space of Cadence's heart and causing all of Dark Void's darkness to be completely consumed. After the darkness of Dark Void completely disappeared from Cadence's heart space, Twilight slowly descended to the ground, Cadence's heart space is now no longer covered by the endless darkness of Dark Void, instead there was a green grass field with clear blue sky and warm sunlight shining everywhere in the space of Cadence's heart, Princess Cadence lying unconscious on the grass, veins of darkness along with the puddle of darkness at her feet had completely disappeared and left no trace, as if they had never existed. Twilight once again used her detection magic and scanned around Cadence's heart space to make sure she hadn't missed any traces of Dark Void inside Cadence's heart. "it looks like all the darkness of Dark Void has completely disappeared... But I still need to get rid of source of the problem, or else Dark Void will once again try to devour her soul" 'What are you going to do, my lord? The only way to stop Dark Void from invading love princess's heart is to cut the link between her soul and yours, but that's not easy, soul bonds are very strong, creating them is already a very difficult thing, and cutting them off is even ten times harder' Death explained. Twilight thought for a moment in silence before saying "... It's true that severing a soul link is difficult... But, what if I use the scythe?" 'Hnm... Death Scythe is my greatest strength, it can cut anything, whether it's visible or invisible, but I still don't think your body is ready to use it, although you have controlled and used my power well, but is still too early for you to use Death Scythe' said Death. "I know,... But I don't have any other choice, if I don't sever that link, Dark Void will once again invade her heart,... She is a princess of love, she has bright and happy future waiting for her,... And I am Lord Of Death, the path that I walk in the future will be filled with blood and death,... She shouldn't have anything to do with me, and I can't let her have anything to do with Dark Void" Twilight said. 'I see, master. But be careful, the power of the Death Scythe is very difficult to control, because you have not fully adapted to my power yet, so you need to concentrate a lot to be able to control its power' Death said . "I see, I-" Twilight stopped when she heard groans coming from behind, she turned to see Cadence slowly sitting up. Princess Cadence felt terrible, as if she had just passed through Tartarus and back "uhm... My head..." Cadence raised her face and was surprised to see Twilight standing in front of her with black armor and a galaxy gray mane and tail, icy blue eyes looking at her. Before Twilight could say anything, she was immediately run over by Cadence and pulled her into a hug, Cadence holding her as tightly as she could, as if she were afraid Twilight would disappear if she let go. "Twilight!! You're back,... Please don't leave,... I'll do anything to free you from that horrible curse,... S... So... please... Don't leave" Cadence hugged Twilight and sobbed. Twilight's face darkened, she gently pushed Cadence away, Cadence looked at her with teary eyes, she was afraid that Twilight would leave again, Twilight looked at her with icy eyes and said "anyway, ... We should get out of here, the others are worried about you." Cadence was confused by Twilight's words, she asked "what do you mean?" "This is not real, Cadence... We are in the space of your heart, aka your dream." Twilight explained. At this point Cadence looked around confused, she realized this was not Canterlot "D... Dream? Am I dreaming?" "Yes, and it's time to turn back." After finishing her sentence, Twilight didn't let Cadence say anything more, she used her magic to pull Cadence out of her sleep and out of Cadence's dreams.