The charge around the horn became too much for Rarity to handle. She knew that she was in the deepest trouble. It wasn’t something she would have come out of that easily. Everything up to that point appeared to have been just so easy in her life. She tried everything in her might to make certain that the magic stored wouldn't be cast. Sparks of her own magical power had begun to travel over to the body which caused her to spasm a bit upon the spot. She wanted to gallop so much and hard through the boutique to release some of the energy. Though doing that alone would have been more than enough to actually release the charge itself.
Powers that were unknown and far greater than the unicorn raced through her very being. Her heart started to beat at twice, if not triple the normal speed. The eyes closed themselves firm while the screaming of agony filled the room. The magical power inside of her horn had become too much for her to handle. She was a gifted unicorn for certain, but some things were even too much for her to counter and this was one of those things. The power that went through her whole being at the point was unlike anything ever seen or heard.
The humming tunes of the spell right inside of her ears couldn't be ignored anymore. The mare knew that better than anything. There was only one way to escape the hell she was in and that was to throw herself into the next. It had to be done, the spell had to be cast if she didn't wanted to be torn apart atom by atom by the powers that went through her body.
Not even the words she wanted to speak were able to come out of her mouth. There was only one thing that she could have done in order to save herself. The head pointed itself straight up while the tears streamed down over her cheeks. For the first time was Rarity in a pain that she hadn't been gone through since a year. Perhaps the pain she was suffering in the moment was worse than everything combined through the course of her life.
The casting of the spell was the only way to relief the pain. What would be coming next couldn't possibly have been that painful. That was the train of thought on which the mare went as everything happened. Rarity could have only hoped in the moment, hoping for the best.
The time to carefully think through her decisions just wasn't there as everything happened in mere seconds from one another. “I’m so sorry!” Rarity eventually screamed out. Then the arcane explosion happened. The spell was cast and the horrors could begin.
The entire living room of the boutique turned itself into a blue color. The light of her magic shone straight into every last corner there was. Nothing would have been able to save her. For it was that very light that also happened to have been a shield. Nopony could have interfered into the events as they were about to begin. Rarity had left one well and was falling into the abyss of the other. Whether it was for the better or worse she couldn't confirm, only speculate.
All the power had left the horn in that massive explosion of arcane power. The hooves were too weak to even move her one step to either the right or left. The head lowered itself in a defeated manner before a deep gulp was made by her. The next thing that happened was the fact that hunks of crystal locked her legs upon the spot they stood. She couldn't be going any other way other than there. Could it have been a spell to trap ponies within a crystalline hold? Rarity hoped so.
The tearing eyes looked at the hunks. She just couldn't believe the facts as they were presented to her. Everything suddenly became both blurry as well as sharp in her eyes. It was unexplainable for certain. The thunder continued to roll outside while the rain kept on pouring out of the heavens high.
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The ground below her hooves began to tremble and rip before two holes appeared on either side of her body and in front of her. Those she could see clearly. Little did Rarity knew that even behind her, there were also two holes emerging where the exact same thing would have happened to her. The sapphire blue eyes looked to the holes and she could only guess as of what would possibly have been coming out of them.
Anything went through her mind, from the most innocent of creatures to the most harmful to dark tentacle. Thoughts that made her frightened clouded her entire judgment and she just didn't wanted to see what happened. The head lowered itself and the eyes were closed forcefully.
If she had looked to the events as they were going down, Rarity could have seen that four columns of the purest crystal and diamond rose themselves up. The rose under a tremendous roar of ancient power out of each of the holes. Four columns that looked threatening in and of themselves yet didn't seem to be as solid at a second glance. Something about them made them actually wobbly. As if they were made out of millions and millions of shards held together by nothing but magic.
Which was exactly the thing they were. Those four columns were just that, millions of shards connected by a magical glue. Something that would be given them an extreme flexibility and for Rarity only more pain.
Because at the end of each column appeared a knife like end and the trembling of the ground slowly stopped. The eyes of the unicorn opened themselves in fear. They went up on the two things before her. She saw immediately what the plan was going to be and just gave it up. There was no way she could avoid what would be happening next. Only prepare herself on the pain that she would be receiving.
And there they then went. Each of the columns went in perfect harmony of one another. They bend themselves over the unicorn. Mere seconds later had they all crammed their sharp knife right into her back. The mare thought that she would die from the pain alone. Rarity wanted to scream it out yet wasn't given the opportunity.
The sheer levels of pain couldn't even be spoken about. It felt like the knife that once pierced her back, but then a thousand times worse. And to make the matters even worse, each of the column’s top actually melted in the first millisecond that it had pierced the skin. The hot, liquid mixture coated itself around two vertebrates in her back. Two of them, one half for each column had fused itself right into her body.
Rarity was captured by the power of the gems and hoped that they wouldn't just rip her apart. Her wish was granted to some degree, for only her mind was torn apart and the intense heat that the things produced caused the mare to black out on the spot. Nothing could have prepared her for the pain, nothing could have prepared her for the darkness that followed.
And nothing in the wide, wide world could have ever prepared the unicorn for the reality of those four crystalline columns. Whatever they had done to Rarity, she would only have been able to find out when she would wake up, if she would wake up at all.