Chapter 15
Back at Nightmare Moons palace the three companions laid in the dungeons unconscious. Lance was the first to awaken and observe his surroundings There was a bench and one bed, not much else. He got up and he noticed three things, One, they were in some type of cell. Two, they were for the most part, unharmed. Three, there were no guards outside their cell. “Buck me.” he said as he took in the gravity of the situation.
“Ugh....” Flash said as he rose from his state. “Where in Equestria are we?”
“I don’t know. Looks like we’er in some sort of dungeon.”
“Really? No shit Sherlock Hooves.” Flash said in and aggravated tone.
“Why you little....”
“Hey, can it both of you!” both stallions turned their head and saw that Breeze had regained consciousness. She was having difficulty getting to her hooves, both pegasi rushed over to help their friend up.
“Thanks.” she said as she placed a hoof over each of their shoulders. “What’s the situation?” She asked as they set her down on the bench.
“Your situation is quite the predicament.” said a cold voice coming from the door of the cell. The three pegasi turned their heads to find themselves face to face with the dark alicorn, Nightmare Moon.
“Who they hay are you?” Flash asked the dark figure.
“I am Nightmare Moon, the true leader of Equestria and your interrogator for this evening.” she said as she stepped inside the cell. As she did Lance charged at her with all his strength. Nightmare Moon’s horn glowed and Lance was trapped in a dark blue magical aura and was sent flying into the wall. “Perfect, this one has volunteered to go first.” Nightmare moon said as she dragged Lance out of the cell by his tail. As Flash tried to rescue his friend from their captor the door had slammed in his face. Flash then shook his head and began pounding on the door in frustration.
“Flash, Calm down!” Breeze said as she rushed to her friends side. “Lance can handle what ever they dish out. What’s important right now is that we keep a level head and try and find a way out of here.” Breeze said as she managed to calm down her enraged companion. Flash stopped bombarding the door and slumped to the floor. Breeze put a hoof on her friends shoulder trying to reassure him. “We’ll make it out, we always do.” she said as Flash pulled her into hug, which was soon broken by an ear splitting scream coming from the end of the hall.
The screams went on for hours. Flash and Breeze both tried to remain calm, but they couldn’t muffle out the agonizing cries of their friend. Suddenly the screaming stopped, and the dark alicorn returned holding Lance by his mane and threw him into the cell with great force. Flash managed to intercept his friend before he hit the wall.
“I will return tomorrow, you two had better answer my questions unless you want to end up like your friend here.” she gave an evil laugh and exited the dungeons to return to her quarters.
Flash laid Lance on the bed trying to comfort his friend.
“Lance? Lance, Speak to me!!” Breeze cried as she lightly slapped his face. Flash was looking him over, he had several bruises, cuts and burn marks all over his body. His left eye was swollen shut,his hooves looked like they were pierced with a cattle prod and were bleeding profusely.. As he went around to inspect his back he gasped loud enough for Breeze to hear.
“What is it?” she asked as she walked over to Flash.
“Bree, don’t look.” Flash said as he tried to cover her eyes.
Breeze ignored him and saw that Lances wings were ripped off, all that remained were two still bleeding stubs. At this sight Flash couldn’t hold back any more, he vomited on the cell floor in disgust. Breeze looked away in horror and collapsed on the ground.
Lance had finally regained consciousness, when he did he saw Flash sitting over in a corner along with Breeze. As he started to move Flash rushed to his side helping his friend up.
“How do you feel?” Flash said with a weak voice.
“Lousy.” Lance said as he got to his hooves. As he took a step he felt his body cry out in pain. Lance then remembered what Nightmare Moon did to him, he looked at Flash with a horrifying look.
“Flash, are my wings gone?”
“I really don’t think that you-”
“ARE THEY GONE?”
“yes.” he said weakly. Lance took a deep breath and trotted over to Breeze who was still sitting in the corner sobbing. “We managed to stop the bleeding, but we couldn’t do much else.”
“That’s okay. I know you did everything you could.” he said as he began to cry. Breeze brought him into a hug soon joined by Flash, in the darkness of the enemies castle the three friends knew that they would not be leaving alive. After hours and hours of sitting in the dark Nightmare Moon returned.
“Well my little captives, I’ve decided that I’m going to be generous and send Celestia a little ‘gift’ a small example of things to come.” she said ash her eyes fell upon Shattered Lance. Her horn glowed and dragged Lance out of the cell. Flash and Breeze tried to fight but were held back by the alicorn’s magic.