When I was a young king, I felt that the world was taken from me. My father and mother had both died by a band of renegades out in the sea on their anniversary, leaving me and my faithful friend to appease the downtrodden people of my nation. I felt destroyed from the inside, but my face was cold and hard. My servants looked down on my small body, but not with sympathetic eyes. They looked at me with fear.
I was ruthless and, yet, kind. I sat in my chair of stone that was bigger than I until I outgrew it and something happened. The book was found. The book contained many rituals, secrets, and alchemetical enchantments that we had abused. We abused it until I, along with my faithful friend, created the potion that would grant us power equal to our lord. We were fools.
The power consumed my friend and I. The power destroyed my home.
Anaxmoros was my name. This name was given to me by the seer who had close ties with my parents. She told my parents that I would bring only doom to this kingdom... but I tried. I really tried.
But...
The seer only said that I would be the downfall of my parent's kingdom, but not of any future one. I had made my old people happy up until the incident... couldn't I do the same? Now that the incidents are stoppable?
Couldn't I be a king again?
I look down at Canterlot, the sun to my back. She was watching me, I knew, but that is not what I was worried about. I was worried about this urge. This hunger. It burns so much!
I look to my arms, my flaming, blackened arms, and think for hours up in the mesosphere...
I finally found Vanessa, who got trapped in some vine-trap.
"Get me down from here!" she said, below the highest tree-branch.
I hug the tree, fattening and shortening it with my magic, and simultaneously lowering her to the ground. I was not paying attention, though, and she faceplanted onto the jungle floor. I laughed, cutting the vine off her with some teeth.
"So where should we go next?" I said.
She gasped, pointing at what was in my hand.
"What?" I said, "I thought we needed the head to get the bounty?"
I laughed, playing with the head on the boat going back home, but something felt off about me. I felt weak, as if I had an illness, so I went to the bathroom across the hall. It is steamy, for Vanessa had just taken a hot shower, so the mirror was foggy. I wipe away the condensation and look at myself. I look the same as I have always looked, but I felt off. I splash myself with water. It was so cold.
I began to gasp quickly, the mirror fogging up from the heat emanating from my inflamed body. I know what has happened now...
I melt down a hole leading to the top of the boat and fly out. I am shaking as I flew up, feeling him up there somewhere. It is so dark outside, the stars shining bright, but I saw something that shone so bright, it was like the sun. And it was in front of me.
I made the first move, but he was stronger than the weakened me. My fire was not enough against his blinding white fire.
I was hit once by him, and flew for hundreds of miles into a mountain, leaving a dent. I cannot give up. I blast out of the mountain, drawing stone from it to melt into armor, and fly directly at him like a missile. I hit him directly in the head, but he just laughed at me. He laughed, knocking me into the ocean.
I cannot give up.
My fire is gone, so I summon water to flow around me. The cold water wrapped around me, solidifying into ice, and I flew back to him. We collided many times, making clouds of steam every time, but he seemed impossibly hot. After all my efforts, his fire only went out for a second before becoming blinding again. He hit me one more time, and I fell.
I fell out of my bed, sweating.