Celestia and Luna could do nothing but looked on in horror and heartbreak. Luna would have alot of explaining to do, especially to her friends, Twilight was screaming in agony as the transformation took hold. Why didn't Luna tell her it would hurt this much? She asked for advice, but all she got was an unempathetic "I wish you the best". What an asshole.
When everything was over Twilight fell to the floor with a hiss, and what looked like smoke rolling off of her. "What have I..." Began Luna, fearfully taking a few steps back before stumbling out the door, watching the progressing events from the doorway.
"Twilight? Are you... ok?"
Twilight said noting, but struggled to her hooves, one of them giving out from under her, making her collapse back onto the floor. Celestia tried to lend a hoof, but all she got in return was shoved off.
"Get off me you traitor!" she barked, shoving back Celestia. Now standing on all fours, the newly formed Twilight stretched her wings wide.
Celestia took a few steps back, cautiously observing the sight before her. "Twilight what are you-"
"NO! I am not Twilight anymore. You may call me, Malevolent Spell, Queen Spell, or just your Queen."
"MY queen!? gasped Celestia. "I will not address an entity such as you with a title so undeserving. Give me back my Twilight NOW, you demon!"
"Twilight is no more, you pathetic princess!" As Malevolent spoke, her horn glowed a very dark purple, whisps of magic flowed from the glow, enveloping herself. Celestia seized a seemingly opportune moment to charge her horn, shooting a paralysis spell at the hazy purple fog.
It went right through the fog, hitting the opposite wall.
"Luna! Go get the other elements NOW, and bring Twilight's diadem too. If I still have any latent connection to them I may be able to cast the banishment spell."
"But I-"
"I SAID GO!"
With that, the Princess of the Night disappeared with a pop.
"Twilight? Malevolent? Whatever your name is. What do you plan on doing with my kingdom?"
Luna reappeared behind Celestia wearing the diadem with the other five ponies in tow, all of whom are wearing the element necklaces.
"You stupid little foal. You saved me the trouble of getting the other elements myself!" Malevolent cast a spell over the whole room, freezing everypony in it. "You stupid, stupid foals. All of you! I needed the other elements to help me reign supreme over this land, and you hoof-delivered them to my front door." She levitated the 5 gems from their sockets in the necklaces, and the diadem from Luna's head. The visible looks on her old friends faces were of utter shock, and sadness. Turning away from the whole group, she could hear a balloon deflate.
"Did I just hear a balloon?" sure enough when she turned her head, Pinkie's mane was laying flat against her head, expression remaining the same.
*step*
"Who did that?"
*step*
"You... BIG. MEANIE!"
Suddenly Malevolent found herself muzzle-to-muzzle with a pink pony and her infamous deflated mane.
"HOW DARE YOU TAKE TWILIGHT AWAY FROM US!" Pinkie snapped.
"I cast a paralysis spell over this whole room, how could you possibly have broken something so powerful that not even your beloved princess can break it?!"
"I'm Pinkamena, bitch!" Pinkie rolled her head around her neck and headbutted Malevolent, sending her stammering back several feet, dropping all 6 elements to the ground with individual clinks.
Pinkie stepped back, terrified at how her friend looked.
The new Dark Queen charged her horn, shooting the magic from her horn at Celestia then Luna. Both princesses disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving only scorch marks on the stone where they stood, only then did she release the other four from their paralysis.
"What did y'all do with Twilight?!"
"Oh good heavens darling, what happened to you!?"
"You better give Twilight back or I'mma lay down the hurt on you in ten seconds flat!"
"Give Twilight back! That is, uhm, if you don't mind..."
"Oh for the love of..." Malevolent cast the paralysis spell again, freezing the five ponies. Turning to Pinkie she says, "You better not try anything again! Now, lets try this thing..." She charges her horn with a ball of black energy, touching it to Rainbow Dash's forehead and the ball wraps around Rainbow's body, engulfing her in the same magic. All that could be heard was excrutiating screams from within the shadow. When is dissipated, all that remained was...
"I name you, Spectra Storm!"
The newly turned Spectra Storm leaned forward on her knee and spoke. "I am honored to call you my Queen." Getting up, standing behind her new Queen and continuing with an ear-to-ear smirk. "What do you wish to do with these four?"
"Allow them go back to their homes. I have no foreseeable use for them." She released the paralysis spell, and Spectra continued.
"You heard the Queen, beat it!" Spectra continued with flared wings
"Rainbow..." Began Applejack "What has she done to you? You... and I... we..."
"Stick a hoof in it, farm-girl and get your worthless plot out of here!"
Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie and Applejack all hung their heads in despair and slowly walked out with their elements in tow; twin trails of tears being left by each of them on their way out. Malevolent rematerializes Celestia and Luna, but invoking a paralysis spell too. Turning to the frozen forms of Celestia and Luna, the Dark Queen addressed her captives.
"I have a mind to banish you two to the sun and moon respectively. But I have another idea. You're both familiar with magic blocking rings? Just slip them onto your horn and it's all but impossible to cast magic. Since our power is equal and neither can overpower the other, I'm going to use that to my advantage. I had forged out of the shadows themselves two hinged horn cases with a metal bracket that goes around your head and secures the case to your head and horn. To which I will also use a magic blocking ring. Your wings are the same principal; except it's a hinged loop that holds your wings to your body and nullifies your pegasi magic."
Malevolent materializes the six items out of thin air, and fixes them to the Sun and Moon princesses, only then releasing the spell keeping the two goddesses immobilized. When they got released, surges of black electricity shot through their bodies, making them shriek with pain, collapsing to the floor with the scent of burnt hair lingering in the room.
"Oh, I also forgot these!" With an excited grin, two more rings materialized. Only these weren't made of the black shadow-metal like the others were. No, these were regular, thick, cast iron collars with equally heavy lengths of chain attatched to them. "You will both serve as my pets!"
"N-no! I will not let you do this to me again!" Spat Luna, speaking very weakly. Suddenly, she gets zapped with bolts of black lightning again.
"Call them an incentive for trying to cast magic or use your wings. In essence, you are both earth ponies! If you like, I can cast a perception spell over you to hide the braces and in turn your wings to give you the outward appearance of earth ponies, but you will still be seen wearing the collars, which have also been enchanted to prevent breakage."
"Then, then why have you chosen to have them made out of heavy iron if they're impervious to breakage?" Coughed Celestia, struggling to get on her hooves.
Malevolent shrugged, walking forward to stroke her wings under the goddesses chins, or more rightly the chins of her new pets. "Because I want you to feel the gravity of your situation!" she said with a cackling laugh.
"Good one, my Queen!"
A light bulb went off in Malevolent's head. "Say, Spectra..."
"Yes?" she answered with a cocked head.
"Take a pick. Which one would you want for a pet?"
Spectra's jaw dropped. "You... You're offering me one of these two as a pet?"
Malevolent only gave an affirmative nod. "You'll be free to do with her as you please to your hearts content. They're of no importance to me anymore. The only condition is you tote around whomever you choose as a display of... dominance." Finishing that word with a wink, she sees a slight blush from Spectra's cheeks.
Spectra walks up to the two now earth ponies, Malevolent's perception spell already cast. Eyeing the two. "You are no longer princesses, that title belongs to me now. You shall address me as such and I will call you whatever I damned well please Tia. Is that understood?"
Spectra's new pet only nods, followed by a whap around the face with her wing. "I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you!"
"Y-, yes, princess." Spoke Celestia through a clearly heartbroken voice.
"You there," said Spectra, pointing a hoof at Luna. "You belong to the Queen, now get that sweet little moon over to your new Owner."
The Queen levitated the end of the chain not connected to the collar, pulling Luna over by it so they stood face to face. "Welcome, Lulu," Luna looked down in flushed embarrasment at that nickname, nopony but Celestia had called her that, for only her sister could get away with it. But now that is about to change. "to The Castle of Shadow! Come with us, we must address our new populace."
Both Malevolent and Spectra affixed the end of their chain to a loop in their armor that sat between their shoulders, for the ease of pulling them around. One that didn't involve biting the chain in the teeth and wearing them down. Because that would be painful.
"My Queen!" Celestia abruptly spoke, exerting an annoyed glance from Malevolent.
"What do you want?"
"My Queen," she corrected in a softer tone, seemingly relaxing the Queen "before we get subjected to whatever it is you had in mind for my sister and I, and the populace, might I ask some questions? It is for... peace of mind." You can clearly hear the distaste of the words in tone being spoken, but Celestia knew it is the only way not to anger her Owner.
"With the powers of Luna and I nullified, how is it you plan on raising and lowering the sun and moon?"
"Hmm, clever question. You see, I can pool enough magic for about three days worth into two candle-clock timers so that when they burn down to a certain point, the magic contained within will release, and that's what will raise the sun and moon. All I have to do is extinguish and light the other one as needed at the end of one candles 12 hour cycle."
"This question bothers me so. You told my Twilight that she would have control upon the power that you granted her. Clearly that didn't happen, so why did you lie?"
"Silly, silly Tia. That's not entirely true. She's still in here," Malevolent said, tapping a hoof to the side of her head. "only motor control has been locked out. Your Twilight has become a prisoner in her own mind, still fully aware of what's going on, still able to see and hear everything that's going on. Just not being able to do anything about it. It's like Discord being locked away in his stone prison. Anything else?"
The shamed alabaster mare only lowered her head in shame, and shook it side to side.
"Good, now let us be on our way."
Malevolent and Spectra lead their respective pets out the door of Celestia's bedchambers, beginning down the hall and towards the main dais that juts out the side of the castle tower; the same dais that Twilight stood on during her coronation. On the walk there she had an encounter with a few guards.
"Halt! Identify yourself!"
"I am Queen Malevolent Spell, formerly known as Princess Twilight Sparkle. This is my subordinate Princess Spectra Storm. And you, good sir, will become part of my new guard; The Dark Guard!" The three guards that stopped them could do nothing but stand there in fear, frozen by the sight of the former princesses with no horns and no wings, being lead around in cast iron chains and collars. The Queen fired three blasts, one from the Element gem sitting higher on her left and right legs at the two guards on her left and righ, and the middle guard got hit with the gen set in the chest plate. All three were engulfed in a cloud of dark purple smoke. When it blew aside, the sight is magnificent to Malevolent. All three guards had bat-wings, lavender-purple armor with a chest plate that flared back. In the middle of the chest plate sat a draconic eye crystal, as opposed to the Moon or Sun for the Solar or Lunar Guard. The helmets have a frill running from the front down the back, and all had the infamous draconic eyes.
"You three will accompany the four of us to the main dais overlooking the kingdom; I wish to address my new populace."
In unison the new Dark Guards spoke in unison. "Yes, my Queen."
No more interruptions this time; they made it outside. The new Queen magically amplified her voice across all of Canterlot and the surrounding area, which really only included Ponyville and Cloudsdale.
"Fillies and Gentlecolts everywhere, I am your new ruler, Queen Malevolent Spell, and I have an announcement for you all. Tomorrow, dawns in Darkness!!!"
