//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: Interrogation // Story: The Lich of the Scourge // by cellum95 //------------------------------// The ponies wondered why Kel'Thuzad makes an astonishing discovery of a pony, trapped in the crystal wall. Suddenly, the pony began to wake up, with it's eyes focused on them. "Who are you, strange one?" Kel'Thuzad asked. The pony thinks about the question of the strange being, before replying. "I'm Garlock, a warlock. I have troubles though on remembering on my memories. Who are you then?" "I'm Kel'Thuzad, the summoner and the very one who helped you escaping that crystal wall." "Nice to meet you Mr. Kel'Thuzad. I have a spellbook though, which I lost a long time ago." "I have also a spellbook, it's from Medivh, the Last Guardian. His lost spellbook is very powerful, even powerful than I, or us ever realized. His knowledge in demons are staggering." "Very interesting. I supposed-" Garlock was cut off by Kel'Thuzad, who turned to Twilight Sparkle and said "I could sense a very powerful magic on you, young one. However, this power could corrupt you in any time it wants." Twilight gulped at what Kel'Thuzad said. "What do you mean?" "Like I said, you have great magical potential. But one single misstep, then you will corrupted, deep within your soul." The ponies shruddered in shock as Kel'Thuzad spoke this. Then, an orange colored pony with a cowboy hat appeared and asked "Those that mean our friend here will be like you?" "No. But, she will be different. She will embrace dark magic, and corrupting her is much more easier. You see, the stronger you are with magic, you are in more danger of being corrupted." "Those that mean, I will be evil?" Twilight then asked. "Yes, only if you are corrupted. You must watch your step, young one." Kel'Thuzad warned. Twilight bear the warning he said earlier. "Excuse me, but what are you gonna do to me?" Garlock asked. "It will begin tomorrow, strange one." *That night* Kel'Thuzad looked at the night sky, thinking of his king, Arthas, back in Azeroth. "May I have a word with you?" Kel'Thuzad turned his head and saw Twilight, then replied "You may." "I was actually very interested in your....magic. I was not thinking other races doing something like that." "The magic I was using is highly kept from me, so I could use it any time I want to." "I have to ask: what will be the corruption inside of me?" Kel'Thuzad wondered, then spoke "Your corruption would be vengeance." "But, why vengeance?!" Twilight stummered "Your vengeance would fall under two things, young one. First off, you're angry because of a certain event that will change your life....forever. The second it will be that you scower the country for powerful magic, to kill the beast that you are hunting for. Turns out, dark magic has grown full on you, enveloping you to darkness, until you have other emotions, like hate." "That....That will never happen!" "But fate will never be altered. Sad to say, but it is true." Twilight bowed her head in shame, not wanting to hear the dark truth. "But, you will have time to change the dark fate." Twilight then glimmered in hope, hoping to find an answer to this....dark truth. "Now rest young one. We have a lot of things to do." "Ok." *Next day* Twilight woke up from her bed, and prepares to go down when Kel'Thuzad's warning is now in her head, spinning like a tornado. She dismisses it, thinking it's just a pipe dream. She goes down, and saw Kel'Thuzad watching as Garlock proceeds to the throne room. "Having a nice rest?" she asked. Kel'Thuzad turned his head, saw Twilight, and replied. "I didn't rest young one. I was reading my spellbook all night." Uhm...Ok." "Now hush, we begin the interrogation." Garlock moves in the throne room, with Princess Cadence and Shining Armor sitting. Next to them where Twilight and Kel'Thuzad. "By orders of the princess: you could begin the interrogation." a guards pony declared. "You, Garlock, a pony who has been trapped in the crystal wall, explain yourself." "I am Garlock, a warlock in the ancient Crystal Order. I don't know why I was trapped there, but it was for obvious reasons." "Are you lying to us?" Twilight asked. "No, I'm telling the truth from my fractured past. Pity, I could still remember some, but not all." Garlock replied. "Kel'Thuzad, what do you have to say?" Cadence asked the lich "Honestly, he's speaking the truth. Through his eyes, I could see his past when he his on his 'Crystal Order'." The reply from Kel'Thuzad shocked the ponies, not at least to Twilight herself. "You! How could....you?!" Armor now exclaimed in rage. But before Kel'Thuzad could reply, a messenger came. "A letter from Canterlot, it's for you, Miss Twilight." Twilight took the letter and read it. After a few minutes of reading it, she gasped in horror, with an emotion she must control: vengeance. "Let me read it, young one." Kel'Thuzad asked. Twilight look at him, before pass it to him, and he read it, and was surprise by it.