//------------------------------// // Picco dell' Oscurità/ Peak of Darkness // Story: Ab Initio-From the Start-Al Principio. // by Daxn //------------------------------// Twilight felt the need to go to the bathroom and relieve herself. Carefully she tried to break away from Velvet's hug. But that wasn’t going to happen. "Where are you going without me?" Asked Velvet, as she stopped Twilight's fleeting hooves with her strong magic. Twilight groaned, at the ritual she was going to pass through for go to the restroom. "I am going to the bathroom, but, for some reasons I can't go there. Can you escort me there?" Velvet smiled, already forgetful of what had happened just few seconds before, already bent to act like an irritatingly sweet and creepy mother. "Follow me then," she said, as she passed in front of Twilight and unlocked the cameretta's door. Once they were out of the room and in the hallway, Velvet, as her custom, walked at snail-like speed, while her daughter behind her tried to not mess herself and not overtake her in a run to the bathroom. Fortunately for Velvet's daughter, the march to the restroom was not slow enough to stall Twilight all together, making her ultimately end up having an accident. Velvet slowly opened the door, and, when the door was open, Twilight propelled herself in, untapped her diaper violently, and sat on the toilet, all in matter of twenty seconds. As she sat on the toilet, Twilight tried to hold it in for a little longer for ask a favor o Velvet. "Please, Velvet, leave me some privacy!" Twilight's mother tilted her head on the left and grinned. "Why?" "Oh no." Twilight said to herself with annoyance mixed with slight fear ‘She wants to watch me use the restroom now too? Oh, this is just like when I was three for real!" Since Twilight was not in a position that allowed her to push for her desires, nor she really wanted to fight it, she just relieved herself, while Velvet watched. Once the Twilight ‘finished’ the last of her business, Velvet clapped her hooves and smiled, “Well done Twily, I’m so proud of you! You used the potty like a big filly!” Twilight groaned at the insulting compliment given by Velvet, and said, as she jumped down the toilet seat. "Please don’t patronize me, okay?" Ignoring her daughter's comment, Velvet said, while taking the roll of toilet paper with her magic. "Let's get all cleaned up now!" Twilight immediately understood what she had to do, and parted her legs, letting Velvet take care of the cleaning. The cleaning done, Velvet re-taped the diaper on Twilight's waist. Twilight was escorted by her mother back to the cameretta, where Pinkie Pie was idly stacking building blocks. Twilight glared at Pinkie; it was time to talk about everything that was one her mind. Pinkie Pie, apparently unable to process what Twilight's glare meant, smiled back at Twilight. Velvet left Twilight, and said. "Mommy is going to have a nap. In the meanwhile, stay here." And then locked the door behind her. Twilight looked behind her, saw that the door was closed, then looked sternly at Pinkie. "I hope you have your excuses ready, Pinkie Pie," she said, "Because you’ve been an absolutely horrible friend to me." Pinkie Pie looked confused at Twilight. "Why? What did I do?" Twilight rolled her eyes and groaned. "You tackled me, and let my psychotic mother force fed me!" "Oh," said Pinkie with a strangely shrill tone of voice, “Come on, it was a prank!" Twilight felt her very soul burst into flames. "A prank? A prank? That wasn't a prank, Pinkie! That was just helping my Mother in her relentless quest to turn me into a foal!" Twilight walked towards Pinkie with an angry stance, “She’s tearing me down. I know you’re so blinded by your own world, but not every pony wants to be a helpless foal…” Pinkie frowned as she was scolded more. Tears formed in Twilight’s eyes as she continued spilling her feelings,”I can’t tell if you even care about me! If any anypony that truly cares about me can do anything! Princess Celestia seems uncaring now, Cadence cannot grasp the true form of this insanity, and Lex is a three-years old with a great heart but no true power! My only hope is my father, and the Heaven knows when he will come back!” Pinkie looked at Twilight with eyes of a puppy dog that has been beaten with an oak cane, trembling lips, and ears lowered. She was clearly hit in the core. "B-but I am y-your friend. I-I just wanted s-some fun..." Twilight glared. "You still ARE my friend..." Twilight said, “But you’re just not helping me the way you could be. I get that you’re special talent is laughter, but this isn’t fun for me, none of this is fun for me!” Twilight, slightly calmed down, sighed. “Look, I am ready to forgive you, but…” Pinkie almost flattened herself to the ground, as she looked nervously to Twilight. "But...?" Twilight continued "You have to help me Pinkie. Take the bullet for me, eat my spiked food, ask to be taken out on a stroll, say you need a change if I need to use the restroom," Twilight loomed over Pinkie "And don’t even try to involve me in your childish games. I don’t want to be anymore of foal then I am. I’m loosing my patience with everypony recently, I-I can’t even think what’ll happen when this is all over. You better help me, if anything for the safety of the State, because it relies on our friendship." Pinkie Pie nodded quickly and grabbed Twilight's left leg "I understand, I understand!" Twilight lowered her head towards Pinkie. "Good. But are you going to help me?" Pinkie detached herself from Twilight's leg. "I-I don't know... on one side, I wanna live my foal hood carefree. When I was on a Rock Farm in Petra, I was never cuddled the way Velvet does, and, honestly, I hoped to take back the lsot time. On other hoof, I don’t want to lose you and the girls in Ponyville. I am one of the Elements after all and, as you said, it is my duty to be good friends with the gang.” Twilight gave a small smile to Pinkie, in the attempt to moderate the tension that built-up in the meanwhile. “So, your choice?” Pinkie Pie smiled sheepishly. “I don’t know. Can I give you an answer later? I won’t do anything too weird against you meanwhile, I swear.” As she said that, the door creaked, meaning that her mother had returned from her slumber. Twilight, after accepting silently the agreement, sighed as she watched her mother stroll right back in. “Four in the afternoon” Twilight read on the childish-looking wall clock, “That has to be one of the longest naps ever taken by my mother.” Carrying baskets containing dolls and blocks, the insane mother started to hand them out to both the adult-fillies, before taking a few for herself. The next few hours were spent with Twilight, Pinkie, and Velvet pretending the stuffed bear and lion were real and that they were ring masters in a traveling circus. The game roleplaying went on for a pretty long time. The whole performance Twilight spoke the bare minimum amount of words to keep her mother happy. Pinkie and Velvet on the other hoof did enjoy themselves in their game. The monotony was broken when Twilight, as she made a stuffed bear do a pirouette, noticed that Pinkie stopped for few second. The pink pony gave a concentrated frown, before resuming the game. Looking down a bit, Twilight noticed that Pinkie’s diaper got slightly bigger and lighter in colour. It seemed they both ignored that. Twilight desired to point out her friend’s wetness, but decided out of annoyance and boredom to see how long it took for Velvet to notice. After a couple of minutes, Velvet exaggerated her sniffing and moved the stuffed toy’s nuzzle accordingly, before touching with the stuffed animal’s arms to the front of Pinkie’s diaper; making it produce a *squish* sound. “I smell a wet filly in the audience..” said Velvet, while still doing the nasal voice she had used while she was playing properly “Shall we give her a change?” Pinkie Pie giggled at Velvet’s little act, walked towards the changing table, and letting Velvet bring her on the top and do all the procedure. Once the diaper change was done, Velvet looked at a Twilight. The young mare was pacing back and forth, clearly there was something on her mind. “One cent for your thoughts.” Velvet said. Twilight turned around to her mother, and decided to have some fun with her mother. “Nothing interesting, just thinking about how many ways I can shut you up before I lose my damn mind!” Velvet frowned at her daughter, “Such naughty language for such a little filly…” she said, levitating a pacifier out of a drawer, “You wanna see a neat little trick I’ve picked up from one of my nursing books?” Twilight closed her eyes, “why did she have to act like such a plot?” “No, I don’t to be honest…” Twilight said, knowing that’d Velvet’s punishment would bej ust a cruel regardless. A white pacifier that matched the design of her diapers appeared in her mouth. Confused, Twilight tried to open her lips only to find out that her mouth was being magically sealed shut, “Mmm-comeon!” she moaned behind her pacifier. “Son of a…” “Bad Twily, foals should never use such bad words!” Velvet interrupted, grabbing one of her daughter’s hoofs and swiftly escorting her to the corner of the room. Scornfully, Twilight waved her hoof, “Well young lady, I hope you’re happy with yourself! You’ve earned yourself a whole three minutes in the corner. Also, you can forget about eating big filly food tonight, clearly you can’t handle anything that a big filly puts in her mouth!” Twilight rolled her eyes. “Meh, whatever,” she thought “as long your ‘master plan’ is still less thought out than Rainbow Dash’s studying schedule, I can almost say I’m fine with it.” After several minutes of staring aimlessly at the corner of the room, Velvet sang, “Alright Twily, did you learn your lesson?” “Mmmhmm.” Twilight hummed, not really meaning it. What was there to learn, after all? Velvet sat down in front of Twilight and popped the magical pacifier out of Twilight’s mouth. “Happy?” Twilight said, rubbing her dry lips. The insane mother frowned, “No, I don’t like to punish my little filly…” Velvet said pecking her daughter on her cheek, “Let me go get you some chapstick alright?” the mare said trailing out of the room. Twilight watched patiently for her mother left the room before trotting up to Pinkie, “See what I mean? That’s not right.” The party pony raised an eyebrow, “Well you did tell her to ‘shut up’, not to mention you said a bad word. “I think you’re missing the point Pinkie, I-” “Twily…” Velvet said cheerfully strolling back into the room, “I got you that chapstick!” she said opening the top of it, “Pucker your lips baby!” Blushing, Twilight did as instructed by Velvet, and covered her dry lips into a slightly shiny film. Once she did that, Velvet added, “Hmm, perhaps I should let you babies play with each other while I am getting supper prepared?” “Yes!” Twilight yelled immediately, desiring to prove her point to Pinkie. Velvet smiled, “Awe, my littlest baby is hungry. Well, fear not, I’ll have supper made in ten minutes alright?” she said closing the cameretta’s door shut. “See what I mean?” Twilight said scootching near Pinkie, “She’s babying me at every turn, and it’s just getting worse day by day. I can use crude language if I want, I’m not really a foal remember?!” Pinkie nodded, “Yeah… but you still shouldn’t use it. You are living in her house hold Twilight, you should reall be behaving yourself.” Twilight groaned and looked annoyed at Pinkie “Didn’t we just have a discussion about that, Pinkie? She’s babying me, I’ve already grown up once, and I don’t want to grow up once again, not from the Dark Ages at least- or from the start; basically infancy.” “Of course you are, silly…” Pinkie booped Twilight on the nose, “You’re her daughter and her guest. While I think it’s really mean what’s she’s doing to you, you can’t blame her when you’re depending on her…” Twilight huffed annoyed, “But Pinkie, That’s not the point! I-I’m concerned for me and myself and her. I-I don’t want to send her to a mental house, not while I'm without my salary, but my situation is always getting worse…” “Twilight!” Velvet called as she opened the door, “You two hurry to the kitchen, I’ve got a big surprise for you!” Obedient to her insane mother, Twilight reluctantly trotted through the granite-paved hallways and into the kitchen. Her jaw dropped as she stared at the bizarre looking piece of furniture. “You just have to love it don’t you?” Velvet said lifting her daughter in a wide padded highchair, with the seat made of a pink cotton padding and the tray made of a pearly white Formica wood, “It’s really nice isn’t it? I ordered it on my way to your Kindergarten yesterday. It’s surprising how fast unicorn magic can work when you give the right amount of bits.” Twilight stared at the highchair, unable to comprehend how in the whole wide world any sane artisan would have accepted Velvet’s request without batting an eye. Smiling, Velvet levitated Twilight in the chair, leaned over and started doing the straps around her daughter’s chest, “Comfy, isn’t it? I thought of ordering one for Pinkie, but I think she’s more than capable of feeding herself.” Twilight tried moving around, but between the tray and straps, everything was too snug to move. Paying no attention to Twilight, Velvet grabbed the Pinkie’s dinner plate and served it in front of the pink mare, “There you go honey, a sandwich, biscuits, apples, and a cupcake for my sweet little angel.” Vevelt finished, nuzzling the side of her daughter’s face. “As for you my silly little filly…” Velvet said carrying on a small plastic plate, “Bread slices, foal food, and formula!” The plate was set in front of Twilight, but there was no silver wear. “How am I supposed to eat this?” the purple unicorn asked, shrinking in her padded seat. “Awh, Twily. You’re much too young to feed yourself like your big sister Pinkie. Now open wide and I’ll give your nommies!” Twilight cringed at the word "nommies" and at the mention of "Big sister Pinkie." Closing her eyes in defeat, she began opening her mouth, eating the food at the snail fast pace Velvet delivered it. Everything tasted worse than the last. The bread tasted of nothing but wheat, the banana baby food was ultra-sweet and the cheesy baby food was extra pungent. Worst of all was the spinach flavored baby food. Usually she liked her vegetables. But for some reason, someone thought of harnessing the full potential of the most malodorous vegetable into one concentrated mush. Now Twilight remember why she refused to eat the vegetables when she was a filly. Unable to take any more of it, Twilight swallowed her pride and shook her head when the finale spoon came, “Milk!” she exclaimed, while pointing at the bottle full of formula. “Aww, poor baby. Sorry, I know it doesn’t taste good, but you’ll grow big and strong from it.” Velvet said moving the spoon of green mush back up to the poor mare’s mouth. “Damnit…” Twilight thought to herself as she endured the last of the three spoonfuls of the baby mush, “Hopefully formula will wash it down… and only that,” she finished her thoughts with a slight smile. Without any warning, Velvet undid her daughter’s straps lifted Twilight from under the serving tray and unto her lap. Her position leaving her with no other option, Twilight hung her hoofs around Velvet’s neck as a bottle was brought to her mouth. It was around this time where Twilight started missing the highchair. There was a bit of a subtle closeness she had to her mother in that moment, which she really didn’t want to have. Trying to make the most out of the situation, Twilight closed her eyes and started suckling on the bottle at a decent speed. Atleast this time it tasted of nothing other than vitaminized milk, no tastes ascribable to laxatives could be found in the bottle, so, for Twilight, that might as well have been milk from Celestia’s teats. Pinkie “Daww’d” at the cute sight in front of her. With no more food to eat, she had nothing other to do than stair in admiration at her ‘little sister’. Twilight glared at Pinkie as if to yell “Not Helping!”. Eventually Twilight finished the bottle and was patted on the back. Twilight pressed inwards her stomach to simulate a burp and so be done with it. With that all behind her, Twilight hopped off of Velvet’s lap. She didn’t even have words to say to her mother. Quietly, she walked out of the kitchen to upstairs to her bedroom. Shutting the door behind her, she collapsed on the undersized bed and closed her eyes. “Twily?” Velvet said bardging into the bedroom “What?” Twilight said stepping away from her. Velvet approached her daughter with a genuine smile and hugged her; not in a creepy-affectionate way like earlier either. “I-I’m glad you were so patient on my lap tonight.” she said brushing her hoof through her daughter’s mane. Twilight lifted an eyebrow as her mother broke away from the hug, “Umm, it’s alright mom…” she said, trying to break away from the petting. “Does my little Twily want help getting dressed?” “Umm…” Twilight looked over at the wardrobe across the room, “I guess it wouldn’t…” the mare thought a moment about how her blanket sleeper would warm her, and how that could have been turned into a trap “Actually, I’d prefer to stay in nothing but my diaper. Thanks.” Her mother walked towards her, “Wait, is there anything else I can do for you before you go to bed?” Twilight placed her hoof on her chin, “Uh, could you get me water? I’m still really thirsty.” Velvet smiled as she walked out of the bedroom and downstairs to the kitchen. Confused by the scene that took place, Pinkie trotted up to Velvet filling up a bottle filled with water. “W-what happened up there?” Pinkie asked, poking Velvet’s side. The bottle filled all the way up to the top and Velvet closed the lid, “Nothing sweetie, Twilight is just tired is all.” “Tired of what?” Pinkie asked. Velvet looked at her bottle before looking back at Pinkie with a small smile, “Just tired. Listen, once I get Twilight tucked in, I’ll read a story alright? I gotta go talk to your baby sister now.” Velvet trotted her way back to Twilight’s room. Slowly opening the door, she brought the bottle of water to Twilight, “Sorry, all the sippy cups were in the washer.” “It’s fine…” Twilight said with a sigh, “Please just leave…” She said as she pulled the covers over her top and used both hoofs to lift the bottle to her face. Turning away from Velvet, she slowly unscrewed the top of the bottle away, drunk the contenent in one gulp, and screwed the top back in. Velvet left the room with a smirk on her face. She closed the door to find Pinkie was impatiently waiting outside. “Is Twilight sick?” she asked curiously. “No, I think my baby just needed some rest. Come on, Balloon Bottom, let’s get you ready for bed too…. With an “Aaaww,” Pinkie Pie obeyed to Velvet’s request. Later on, Twilight Sparkle wake up in a strange room, with the floor made of what it seemed pure light, and the walls stretching to the infinite. “Where I am?” Asked Twilight to herself, as she looked around her. A feminine and powerful voice answered. “Welcome to the Dreamscape, oh ye faithful servant of my sister!" Princess Luna materialized from a blue-ish fog in front of an awed Twilight. “P-Princess Luna? I-is that you?” “Indeed, Crepuscoli Scintilla, faithful scholar for my sister Celestia. We are here, in your dreams, to give you support in this time of need! We have seen the prophetic dream that has visited you last night. While We could not interfere, for it is impossible for Us to do so. We could however percieve the martyrdom that your mind is suffering. Future visits in the dreams of other subjects related to you have proven it.” Twilight, after trying to not disassamble herself for the Traditional Canterlot voice, said. “I appreciate your interest in me, Your Higness. But, is there any reasons to visit me? I’m sure that there are many ponies that would love some respite from their nightmares…” Princess Luna started to walk around Twilight. “We know. But We want to make to one of our cleanser a favor. We can give to your mother Velvet, daughter of Woolburner, a nightmare based on her most intimate and enclosed fear. Or We can provide you a dream so good, that it will purify your mind of any scum it may have gathered, and heal any wound that your parent’s actions may have done!” Twilight backed down and stuttered, unable to compute what was going on around her…because it seemed too good to be true. Princess Luna was basically offering to her yet another way to get revenge on Velvet, or something capable of restore her sanity. Closing her eyes, Twilight thought for a bit about her choice, before deciding that she could always save the offer for an all-curing dream in case of bordeline mental breakdown, point that she had yet to reach. “I’d wish to give Velvet a strong nightmare, and reserve the healing dream for later, thank you very much.” “As you wish, Crepuscoli Scintilla. If you desire, you may stay on Our side, and attend to the mean sight of your mother feeling fear after her tyrannical actions in the daylight!” Twilight wasted no time. “Yes! Yes! Yes!” She shouted. Luna’s horn glowed with a blue aura, and her and Twilight’s figures started to flicker . “So be it!” Shouted Luna, before disappearing with Twilight. A couple of minutes traveling in a multicolored tunnel later, Twilight and Luna reappeared in what it seemed Twilight’s house… but on fire and wrecked by a mysterious force. It was possible hear shouting and cries from the inside. Twilight put her hooves in front of her mouth in shock, before hearing a shout coming from the house. “Velvet! Come back here, or I will tear out your soul and use it as asswipe!” It was her voice. Curious, Twilight asked to Luna. “Princess, i-is that me?” Princess Luna silently nodded, before making her horn glow once again. “Farewell, Crepuscoli Scintilla. You shall wake up back in your flesh and see the despair on Velvet’s face after this vision. For now, take pleasure in attend to this nightmare.” Princess Luna disappeared once again, leaving Twilight alone in the dream. She decided to go to the door, enter, and see what was going on in the house. When she entered, she saw her mother crawling on the floor and with her face covered in blood. The walls had scorch marks, the marble statues lied broken on the cracked stone floor and the paintins were reduced to hanging crisps. From the hallway that brought to the entrance hall, another Twilight appeared. Better yet, Twilight-turned-alicorn appeared. She wore a golden breastplate with a spiky green gem in the center. She also wore a golden crown with rubies on each tip of the crown. Twilight looekd in awe at her dream counterpart, and made herself ask. “I-I’ m a princess in Velvet’s nightmares? But why?” The reason was soon explained by her dream coutnerpart who, after raisign Velvet with her magic. Velvet begged. “Twilight, Twilight, please, don’t kill me, I’m your old mother!” Dream Twilight shouted. “The fact you have generated me is just another reason for kill you! You have lived your pitiful life, you have used me as your little slave when I was just a mass of retarded flesh without any goals in life, and now it’s time to make you return to the ground that spawned you! You are old, you are weak, you do not deserve to stay in the realm of the living no more!” Then Twilight’s horn glowed strogner nad stronger, until a tounge of fire appeared on Velvet’s tail. The fire spread, until a screaming Velvet was reduced to a small pile of burning ashes. Twilight could not properly process what happened, that the scenario around her disappeared, and was replaced by the scene of a graveyard, a urn painted with scenes of ponies dancing over a cadaver towering over all the tombs, and a music playing from… somewhere. A music whose rythm was unhaerd of by Twilight, and with a lyrics that made Twiligth smile a bit... and wake up. Seeing that it was still late night, Twiligth decdied to let herself speculate. "So, that is her nightmare that Princess Luna has promsied to me, I g..." Twiligth stopped herself mid-sentence "Hold on... Luna said that the nightmare sent by her was going to contain my mother's most enclsoed and strongest fears. I saw a burning house, symbol of family life going to Tartarus; me begin somehow an alicorn, maybe even a princess; and her dying by my hoof..." Twilight put a hoof under her chin. "So, apparently her insanity HAS a basis..."