Twilight flung to door open to her library home and charged in. Spike was putting up the last book when she came in. “Twilight, what’s wrong? Where did you go? What-“the dragon paused in his sentence as the alicorn approached him. Staring at him with a mad glare, this scared him and made him feel threatened. “Twilight what’s wrong with you?” he said questioning her eyes.
Silence him.
Twilight shook her head as that thought appeared. She sat down on her haunches and rubbed her head gently with the tip of her hooves. I didn’t think that, she thought to herself. Now that she thought about it a little bit more. It was more like a voice. Spike broke the silence as he called her name again.
“Spike, I want you to go to Fluttershy’s and stay there. Do not come back until I tell you to, understand,” she ordered, “Tell her I sent you.” He backed up, she was sending him away? He never liked the idea of that. “But Twilight-“he started.
“But nothing! I am your princess! You listen to me!” she yelled in an outburst of rage as she shot a magic blast toward the books ;causing them all to fly from their shelves and some to burn with a green and red flame. With this, Spike ran out the door, glancing back a couple times.
Twilight sat down again, taking in breaths trying to calm herself. I need to visit Zecora, she thought. The purple pony wished not to confront the Princesses about it. For she knew they would be deeply disappointed with her and that there would be consequences.
She walked out and opened her wings, before she took off; she noticed that the tips of them were now a black hue. It was the same with her hooves and mane. It looked like it was spreading. She shook her head, the more I think about it, the worse I’ll get. She shot up into the sky and headed towards the Everfree Forest.
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“I am full of sadness! For I cannot help you, you will succumb to the madness!”
Twilight walked around the home of the zebra. “Please, Zecora!” she shouted as she peered through the window. The zebra was racing around her hut, grabbing potions and the masks upon her wall; almost as if she was packing. The alicorn began to panic.
Use the spell.
There was that voice again, but this time it did say something that would be useful at this time. “I’m sorry Zecora,” she apologized as she built up the dark magic. When it reached its full capacity, she fired it at the frightened zebra. Breaking the glass and mostly burned away most of the wall. The mind control spell, Twilight thought, the rats couldn’t handle it. Maybe a zebra or pony can with stand it for awhile. The princess crawled through the space she blasted through the zebra’s home. Zecora stood there with wide eyes and faded pupils, a trance like state.
“Find something to help me,” she ordered the mindless zebra. Zecora only gave a few odd nods. The zebra stumbled over and grabbed one of the potions on the shelf. It was an odd color, but Twilight didn’t question it. She used her magic to levitate the vile in front of her face. Twilight stared at the strange liquid before drinking it completely.
Just then, the alicorn let out a scream of agony. She pressed her hooves on the side of her head as her wings flapped rapidly. The potion didn’t help at all! It only made things worse! The black and gray hues on her body faded more into her fur. The greenish red took more control of her eyes and the tips of her mane were now black and flowing like fire.
Finally, the pain was over, but the madness and darkness still remained in her. She screamed at the entranced zebra. Twilight used more power; she wasn’t just controlling Zecora now. She was destroying her brain. Zecora came through now, but was only introduced to a world of pain. The zebra screamed and shouted until she finally collapsed to the ground.
The purple alicorn pony walked out of the zebra’s home, getting ready to take off. I have no choice now, I have to speak with Celestia and Luna, she thought.
They can’t help you. Just give up. Succumb to the darkness, Twilight.
She ignored the voice, shaking her head until a familiar voice called through the wind.
“Twilight!” The voice called.
She turned her cranium to spot the three figures that were forming towards her. It was Rainbowdash, Applejack, and Fluttershy. Before they could get to her, she casted a dark spell around her body, it looked like a black lightning static around her. She frowned, “Stay away from me!” Before Rainbowdash could tackle her; she teleported herself into the throne room of her teacher.
Celestia was looking over a letter with her sister Luna sitting beside her. Two royal guards stood in front of the large door and another two around the princesses. Twilight could tell that the guards seemed startled at her arrival because they were wide eyed.
Luna was the first to speak up; Celestia was stuck in her own world for she was stuck in focused of the letter. “Celestia!” Luna shouted as she nudged her sister out of her state.
Twilight gave her a sorrowful look, “Celestia please-“before she could finish her sentence. The alicorn ruler had shot a powerful magical blast at her. Twilight wasn’t able to move out the way when it hit. It had flown her a couple feet backwards. “Guards, sustain her!” Celestia shouted.
The purple pony felt more pain tackle her body as she felt powerful hooves pin her to the ground. Her vision was fading now as she was beginning to pass out. “It’s happening again,” she heard Luna say as the world around her faded.