//------------------------------// // WHTMF chapter 6 - bad ending // Story: What happened to my friends // by bryonyTheWolf //------------------------------// Key-Lime Pie stood there, standing over Twilight. The stitches over her joints now burst open, revealing the tendril mass that holds her together. The eldritch unicorn seemed to double, maybe even triple in size, until she matched the size of Tirek, back when they had their grand battle together. Before Twilight could react, Key-Lime spoke up. “Poor little Twilight Sparkle… All alone, nopony to turn to… Your friends… Turned to monstrosities. Your fellow Princesses, out of reach… You’re in MY domain now Princess… And in my domain, there are no rules…~” Before Twilight could respond,the sky around the castle began to change. Slowly changing into a blood red colour, the shadows became an overwhelming pit of red, and everything around them had turned red… It was almost like Twilight had walked into a giant photo development room. She couldn't see very well through the tampered light. She looked around, trying to see Key-Lime, but she seemed to have vanished into the red horizon. Before Twilight could react, she was whacked from behind by a tendril. A dark, green tendril. The impact from behind her, left her dizzy, her ears ringing and her vision blurred. Once the clouds in her vision cleared, she was greeted with Discord’s face inches away from hers. But something was off… His eyes were green. Lime green. With what looked like darker thread going through the middle of his eyes in a cross shape. Almost as if they looked like buttons. “Discord?! What’s going on? What happened to you?!” Twilight asked frantically, putting her hooves on Discord’s cheeks, making him look at her. But the draconequus simply remained quiet, before slowly standing up straight, pointing his clawed hand at her. “Couldnt even save your little group of friends… And here i thought the Princess of Friendship was more capable than sending her guards to do her dirty work.” Discord's tone was cold, heartless. His voice was echoed and distorted, and didnt sound like it was coming from him. Twilight’s eyes began to fill with tears. She didn't want to believe it, but he was right. She didn't come when she needed to, instead sending more guards and making bigger search parties. Even asking princesses Celestia and Luna and Cadance to send in reinforcements. She did everything she could when it came to trying to find her friends, except go to THEM when they needed her most. “T-that’s not true! I was helping them i–!” “But you didnt go to them! You didnt leave your throne room until things got too far. Only when ALL of your friends were gone, did you decide to leave your castle, and find out for YOURSELF, what was going on.” “So i didnt respond appropriately! I was doing everything I could without putting anypony else at risk!” “But it clearly wasn't enough… was it… PRINCESS?” Discord’s voice morphed and changed, until it matched Key-Lime Pie’s voice. Then, Discord’s green button eyes began to glow, and the draconequus quickly evaporated into nothing, leaving Key-Lime Pie there instead, standing over the now crying alicorn. “I suggest you look at all the mistakes you made Twilight… Sending your entire royal guard… Asking your fellow princesses for help… All the “efforts'' you put into the search for your friends… While you didnt even leave your little throne in Canterlot… But it seems like you’ve managed to piece the puzzle together a little too late…” “You… You did all of this! But your own mother! She-! Twilight’s sentence was cut off by the sound of loud ripping, Key-Lime’s body breaking into pieces, and her entire form growing to ungodly sizes. Her eyes going completely green and many tendrils came out of the new splits in her body. As well as her mouth. With a loud roar, the tendrils all shot forward toward Twilight. With a few pink flashes, Twilight managed to cast a few teleportation spells. Dodging the first onslaught, before the rest rapidly followed after her. But the alicorn looked at Key-Lime. Her face didnt look angry or upset… She was scared. She had always been capable of such strong magic due to inheriting a lot of eldritch-like abilities from down her family tree. “wait a second… Her magic… She can't control it!” Twilight shouted out to herself. EVerything that was going on. Key-Lime Pie couldn't control. All the strange happenings, the reality warping, even everything she is saying. Everything is the magic being too strong, leaving Key-Lime herself in the passenger seat of her own mind. Twilight shot forward. Her horn lit up, ready to attack. There was nothing she could do but fight back, if she didn't stop key-lime soon, then there would be no reversing this spell!! Twilight flew toward Key-Lime Pie, she could hear her friends voices in the back of her mind, cheering her on for her victory, as she flew at the green eldritch horror that was Key-Lime Pie. But before the first attack could even land, Twilight’s flight path was cut short, by an especially sharp tendril shooting out of the ground. Slicing its way through Twilight’s torso like a hot knife through butter… Blood flowed down the tendrils and stained the skin. Key-Lime’s eyes leaked with tears, but her face looked like one of victory, as her loud laughter echoed through the sky. “Hahahahaha!! Couldnt even save Key-Lime…” Twilight’s body slumped to the ground, all life drained from her body, as the giant green eldritch unicorn slowly walked away toward Twilight’s castle. All while, a small scream echoed from the giant entity, the screams of the real Key-Lime. Forever trapped in her own mind.