//------------------------------// // Anger Doesn't Even Come Close // Story: The Eldest // by Authora97 //------------------------------// After finally helping Asa get into her guest bed, Fluttershy fed her animals and went to go tell the others. Rainbow Dash was the angriest out of all of them, Pinkie Pie came close to that level of anger. Applejack and Rarity were downright mad and Twilight... Nopony knew exactly how Twilight felt about it. Her face was kept emotionless during the whole thing. “I say we go back to Canterlot and ask the Princess what she was thinking!” Rainbow yelled. “We can’t Rainbow, then Celestia would know that Asa is here.” Twilight spoke up. “Yes and that bite mark won’t get any better if the Princess opens it up again. Fluttershy explained. “And Asa told me to say sorry about ruining the dress Rarity. It was the only cloth she could find.” Rarity simply smiled. “Tell her it was no problem. I can simply make another. What appalls me is that Princess Celestia saw this wound and did little to nothing about it.” “Yeah! And Luna looked like she remembered Asa so why didn’t she do anything to stop Princess Celestia from going all Meanie on Asa?” Pinkie asked, anger still in her voice. Not only over Asa but over the fact she didn’t get to play Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Pony. “I could send a later asking Celestia what happened. She might be able to tell us something Asa didn’t.” Twilight explained while using her magic to bring a quill and scroll over to her. ‘Dear Princess Celestia, Could you please tell us what happened to Asa? You came and left too suddenly for us to ask questions. Some of us have become very worried. Your Still Faithful Student, Princess Twilight Sparkle Rolling up the scroll and giving it to Spike, all the mares watched as the paper disappeared in green flames. Then Rarity asked a simple question. “Twilight, you’ve been so quiet? WHat do you have to say about all of this?” Now at first, Twilight remained silent. Then the timer ran out. “How do I feel about it?” Twilight asked calmly. “How do I feel about my mentor, the pony who taught me everything I know about magic, harming somepony that was family?!” For the briefest second, Spike could’ve sworn he’d seen a part of Twilight’s mane flicker with fire. Rarity swallowed. “Um...yes?” Twilight’s eyes scanned the room, as if making sure the wrong pony didn’t hear it. “Anger isn’t the right word. Pure anger is even worse. Downright spiteful is close.” Twilight placed a hoof under her chin. “I guess I’m disappointed.” She turned her head to the risen moon, the sun having disappeared an hour ago. Each mare blew out a sigh of relief. Nopony wanted Twilight to get mad. Making her mad caused fires... and they were in a library. “Disappointed? But why sugarcube?” Applejack asked. Twilight continued to stare at the moon. “Because after all the lessons of Friendship I had given to Princess Celestia, especially the Zecora one, she refused to think of Asa in a kinder light. She was only defending herself from us after seeing us attack her. Princess Celestia could’ve simply asked her what happened instead of burning something so important to Asa. She might not have known it was important, but something tells me Asa told Celestia just what it meant to her and even then Celestia didn’t stop. “Even if she noticed the bite mark on Asa she didn’t stop. If she saw Asa crying she didn’t stop. If Luna warned her about the Eclipse or if she felt it herself she didn’t stop. The Princess didn’t stop until it was too late.” All of the ponies let Twilight’s words sink in. If Celestia did notice all those things. Then why didn’t she at least stop to help. Asa kept walking in the maze in her dream world, following the sound of laughter that was oh so familiar. Catching a glimpse of a fleeing pink tail, Asa chased after her with amusement. “Celly slow down!” Asa yelled. “Thou should run faster!” Her younger sister yelled back. Turning the corning her sister followed seconds before, she found an alicorn with fire for hair and eyes glowing bright red. Her sister held in a golden grip of magic. “ASA HELP!” The pink maned alicorn screamed. Wanting to protect her sister, Asa reached out with her magic but just as she held her sister She lost her. In a split second, the Fire Alicorn burned the filly to ashes. Letting them fall to the ground. “HA! FOALISH GIRL! YOU TRULY BELIEVED I WOULD LET YOU SAVE HER?” The Fire Alicorn yelled. “Who are you?” Asa asked, crying over her sister’s ashes. “YOU ALREADY KNOWN ME ASA! I AM THE FEARSOME CORONA!" Asa stumbled up and began running back the way she came, eager to escape the beast that she once called sister. After running for a minute or so, Asa found a filly of Luna. “Sister!” Luna cheered. “LULU!” Asa yelled as she ran after her sister. When the two sisters came together, Asa heard an evil laugh come from behind her. “Always so gullible.” Asa pushed away Luna as she turned back into Nightmare Moon. “Asa...” Corona was coming up behind her. Looking both ways, Asa realized she had no way to turn. Her worst nightmares had come true. “Asa!” Feeling her heart soar, Asa looked up and saw two alicorns flying down to her. One with a flowing yellow mane and another with seemingly the universe in his mane. “STEP AWAY FROM HER!” Faust yelled at the two wicked alicorns. “Make us.” Corona taunted. Faust and Galaxy prepared their magics. They fired and the shots were frozen into ice. “It was a futile effort.” Nightmare Moon grinned. “I shall end this.” Her horn began to glow. “NO!” Asa screamed as two shots hit her mom and dad. Burning them to ashes. Asa then learned a harsh truth. Her sisters were truly gone forever. “Time to do what we should have done a long time ago.” Nightmare Moon cackled. Asa closed her eyes as she felt Nightmare Moon’s cold and Corona’s burning hot hoof begin their cruel torture. “NO!” She screamed, waking up from the nightmare to better all nightmares. Her red dress clung to her body from the cold sweat. Her hands couldn’t stop shaking to hold onto the covers of Fluttershy’s guest bed. The cloth over her wound look like it was close to get soaked over. The now nighttime sky made it next to impossible for Asa to look beyond her own hand in front of her face. “I failed them.” Asa told the darkness. “I failed Celly. I failed Lulu. I failed Mom and Dad. I failed everypony.” The sounds of her crying lasted another ten minutes, then Asa fell asleep from exhaustion.