//------------------------------// // Chapter 5: Controlling Emotion // Story: The Lich of the Scourge // by cellum95 //------------------------------// Twilight, who's head bears the word 'vengeance', is now silently hissing in rage. How could Celestia failed Applejack's sister, one of her loyal subjects? Her mind is now boiling, with her horn glowing with anger. "Young one-" But before Kel'Thuzad could finish his sentence, Twilight put a guard pinned on the wall, and walks out of the throne room. "Guards, stop Twilight!" Cadence ordered. As soon it was said, 4 guards was on the way of Twilight, who was in a spree of revenge. The guards advanced, but was pinned down by Twilight. As soon Twilight walks out of the Crystal castle, a voice was heard, threatening "Keep yourself intact, young one, or be scourged to death!" Twilight turned, and saw Kel'Thuzad, ready for something. "What could you be possibly to do to stop me?" Twilight said in a menacing laugh. Her friends, brother, and ex-foalsitter gasps in horror at what they saw on the characteristics of Twilight. Her eyes are now snake-like, with a black mist rising. But before they could fully examine Twilight, Kel'Thuzad raises his hand, readies for a another spell, with Twilight readying also, and said: "I summon thee the dead, and hold her for eternity!" Just as suddenly, 4 boney hands rises up and grabs Twilight, much to her surprise. They grab her hooves, and locked her from her original position. Kel'Thuzad begins walking towards Twilight, with her friends and brother thought that he will end her.....personally. Twilight now saw his eyes, looking back at her. She commanded several seconds later: "Release me! Release me at once!" But before Twilight could get an answer, Kel'Thuzad put an ice spell, getting her to feel dizzy and then fall asleep. He then ordered that she must be in a room so that he could something important. "What are you are gonna do with Twilight?" ask the grey colored pony. "I will do something important. Her corruption alone could kill anyone in a matter of seconds. You must hold posture, or face the wrath of the Scourge!" The ponies are now utterly confused, but continued straight to their own ways. *At Twilight's room* Twilight woke up from her vengeance seek in the morning a while ago. Her head still aches, with Kel'Thuzad beside her. "What...What are you gonna do to me?" "I'm going to ask you one question: Why?" Twilight wondered at the being's question. "Let me rephrase: Why did you let yourself be controlled by vengeance?" "I....I...I got angry." "Your reason why you got angry?" "I....I....." "You cannot control your emotions, young one. It's a dangerous play for you, one more any your sanity is gone, forever." Twilight got shocked by this....evil revelation. 'How could I lose my sanity by some vengeance?!' "I...I promise that it won't happen again." "I doubt that you will keep your promise. But I have faith that you will succeed." "Thank you, Kel'Thuzad." *Later* Kel'Thuzad walks out of Twilight's room, only to be approached by 7 ponies, with worried looks on their faces. "What did you do to Twilight?" the pink one said. "Nothing. I just interrogated her to control her new emotion." "And what exactly is this new emotion, being?" Cadence asked with a raging look on her face. "Her new emotion is vengeance. She is angry that Princess Celestia didn't defend a certain one named Apple Bloom. She is gravely injured, but-" "Mah sister is injured?!" Applejack said. "You must be Applejack, and yes. She is injured, but the princess assured that she will be fine." "Back to the topic, why did Twilight become so....evil-looking with vengeance?" Shining said. "Ah, that evil emotion. I could make someone corrupted, with a another emotion helping it: anger." "Why? Should she be angry?" "I said it before, and I will say it again: Celestia didn't defend Apple Bloom because of some loyal matters." "Yah mean that mah sister has not been defended by Celestia who has loyal matter?!" "By other means yes." But before the ponies could answer, Twilight walks out of her room, with a feeling of something odd in her face. "Hello, darling. I must say it is pretty devastating to know that Celestia failed." the grey colored pony spoke out. "It is...for me. Right now, I'm probably getting dizzy because of my head." "Is there anything wrong?" Shining asked. "None, my brother. It's just there is something wrong with me. I feel like....the evil inside of me has arisen." Her words were listened by her friends, brother and ex-foalsitter. But when they heard the last sentence, their spine shivered with cold. "Do not fear young one. I do hope that evil of yours did not consume much." "-Laugh- I supposed so." Her friends sighed in relief, only to be broken by a scream of pain by Twilight. "AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH! My head! It hurts!" she exclaimed. "Young one, get a hold yourself! Your evil self is now claiming your sanity!" Kel'Thuzad said. But it was too late. Twilight is now enveloped in a mist of black, with her friends and brother watch in horror. 'It is now the time for Dark and Light to battle again. If only Arthas and the Scourge was here, what will I do?' Kel'Thuzad asked in his mind.