//------------------------------// // Doorway to Insanity // Story: Insanity War // by InsaneBatPony //------------------------------// Doorway to Insanity The black door to Insanity’s castle stood before them like a great demon from bowels of the nether world itself. They stopped mere inches from the massive gateway into Insanity’s twisted world of evil and madness. Thanatos placed a hand in the door and forced it open with a push of his own magic. “This is where we part ways. I will find the princesses horns and you will go to the throne room. Everyone clear?” The six nodded and Thanatos disappeared again in a cloud of shadow and mist travelling down the corridor to his own destination. The six waited for a few moments outside the door. Twilight looked at her friends and gave a slight nod. She proceeded through the door the others following closely behind her. They had now entered into the mouth of the castle, the gateway of madness. The realm of madness incarnate. The corridors of the castle were not the majestic white stone as before. Now they were black as night, as though they were black holes waiting to suck them in never to be seen again. A chill went down their spines as they walked. Rarity felt the cold breath of a being on the back of her neck. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ “Uggh, please would you stop breathing on me Pinkie? It’s rather unbecoming.” She retorted. Rarity turned her head to try to see behind her. There was nothing, only darkness. She turned her head back to its normal position. Nothingness lay in front her. Her friends nowhere to be seen. “Twilight? Fluttershy? Rainbow dash? Pinkie Pie? Applejack? Where are you?” she said fear permeating her voice. “Come play with me. Can I help you with your new designs? Why don’t you play with me, Rarity?” a small voice said behind her sending chills down her spine, the voice sounding eerily familiar. “Whose there. Show yourself.” Rarity said visibly trembling, fear entering every fiber of her being. She looked all around her, still nothing could be seen, only darkness. Then she turned her head to its frontal position and standing before a faintly glowing, small, white unicorn. “Come play with me Rarity.” Sweetie Belle said to her elder sister, her voice sounding like it was echoing a little. “Sw…Sweetie Belle? But I…” Rarity started to say in disbelief. Sweetie Belle went and grabbed her sister’s leg with her two front hooves. “Come on Rarity. You promised that you would play with me today.” She said while looking into her sisters eyes with eyes as big as saucers. “Bu…But where can we play? There’s nothing around to play with.” Then all around her, the darkness vanished and what lay before her was Ponyville as it had once been. All of the ponies going about their normal daily lives, the streets crowded and ponies out at their stands selling their wares. And in front of her was the playground she had promised to take Sweetie Belle to someday. “Come on Rarity! Push me on the swing, ok?” Rarity still dumbstruck by the event stood in shock. When she snapped out of her trance she saw Sweetie Belle on the swing waving at her to hurry up and calling her name. Rarity made her way over to the swing set and began to push Sweetie Belle on the swing. Sweetie Belle’s laughter and calls to go higher only made Rarity feel more comfortable and happy inside her aching heart. “Higher! Higher Rarity!” Sweetie Belle called to her sister. Rarity smiled for the first time in months and began to laugh as she pushed her sister on the swing, Sweetie Belle also laughing and having fun. A short time later, Sweetie Belle got off the swing and asked if they could go get something to eat for lunch. Rarity smiled and agreed. She asked Sweetie Belle to sit on a nearby bench while she went to get some sandwiches from the store on the street. When she returned she found Sweetie Belle lying on the ground in the dirt. She dropped her sandwiches and ran to her side. She flipped her over and saw that her body was now a decaying mess. She screamed and dropped her body while stumbling backwards. She made her way to her sister’s body and picked it up while sitting on her haunches. “Sweetie Belle? Sweetie Belle?!” She screamed. She looked around and Ponyville had disappeared into the never ending darkness. Sweetie Belle’s face was now a rotting form of its former self. “Sweetie?” Rarity asked tears falling from her eyes again, she looked around to see if any help could be found. Sweetie Belle’s body stirred in her arms. Rarity’s head snapped back to the rotting corpse in her arms, her face becoming one of dread as the body moved its head from side to side on the back hinge of its neck. Sweetie’s head snapped up to face Rarity, changing into a form of bones and red energy. Rarity screamed and dropped her sister’s body onto the ground. She stepped away slowly as the body before her stood up on its own and began to walk toward her. Rarity stopped backing up feeling something solid behind her. “What’s the matter sis? You don’t look too good.” The body said to her. “No…No stay back you vile monster.” The body stopped and looked at Rarity. “What’s the matter? Don’t you recognize me Rarity? It’s me. Sweetie Belle.” “NO! You’re not Sweetie Belle!” Rarity screamed at the creature before her. “Yes I am. Come on Rarity, stop lying to me. I know you know who I am.” said the decaying body in front of Rarity. “No! You’re not my little sister! You have her voice, but not her looks!” Rarity screamed back. The body began walking toward her again. “Stay Back! Stay Back I said!” Rarity screamed as the body came closer and closer. The decaying mass came to a stop at Rarity’s feet and looked into her eyes with her burning red sockets. It stood there for little while and only stared at Rarity’s eyes. Rarity’s face had begun to contort into a look of absolute terror and fear. “YOUR IN MY REALM NOW ELEMENT! WHAT’S THE MATTER!? AFRAID?!” the body roared making the walls and floors shake. Rarity screamed in terror and fainted. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ “Hello? Who’s there? Ah know yer out there! Come out now, ya hear?!” Applejack yelled into the darkness. She looked all around her and in the distance there were faint colors of green, red and brown. She ran over to where the colors were emanating from to see the main gate to Sweet Apple Acers. “What the hay?” Applejack said to herself as she stared at her orchard. “What ya’ll doin there Applejack? Come on, granny’s got supper ready.” Applebloom called to her. “Applebloom?” AJ said in disbelief. Applejack charged into the orchard and nearly tackled Applebloom to the ground tears in the corners of her eyes. “Oh, Applebloom, Ah thought ya were dead.” “Dead? Why would Ah be dead?” Applebloom asked while pushing on her sister’s head trying to escape. Applejack let go of her younger sister and stood there hoping this was not a dream. Applejack went inside her house and sat at the table with her family surrounding her at the dinner table. She looked at them all smiling and laughing at the table as they put their dinner on their plates and passed the casserole pan. She took it from Big Macintosh on her left and put some on her plate and passed it off to Applebloom on her right smiling from ear to ear and laughing her famous accented laugh. They talked and laughed with each other at their dinner table and enjoyed each other’s company as they had done so long ago. When dinner was done and the table cleaned up they parted ways to get some sleep for the coming day. Applejack lay in her bed and stared at the ceiling in her bedroom. “Ah hope that this aint no dream.” She said to herself before falling asleep under her covers. A few hours passed and she was awakened by screaming and yelling outside of her door. She woke up slowly and began to realize that her family was yelling at her to wake up. She got up quickly not caring to tie her mane back in a ponytail as she would usually do. She ran to her door and opened quickly enough that it almost came off the hinges. “Wha’s wrong?! Wha’s goin on?!” she said quickly and worriedly. She could see here entire family standing outside her door and smoke coming up through the floor in the hall way. “Come on sis! The house is on fire! We gotta go!” Applebloom shrieked at her. Applejack looked stunned but regained composure and scooped up Applebloom and began to run while Applebloom rode on her back and Granny Smith on Big Mac’s. They ran down their stairs into the kitchen when a part of the ceiling came crashing down in a fiery mass in front of them. Applejack reared back and Applebloom almost fell off of her sister. They made their way around the fire ball on the floor with haste and almost made it outside when something in the house caused a massive explosion propelling them out of the house in a fiery explosion coating them in flames. They crashed hard into their front yard, their fur scorched and their skin burning. Applejack tried to stand but realized that her left, front leg was broken by the impact. She fell back down onto the ground. She looked at the others. Her older brother Big Mac was on fire and lying on the ground. He was in the back when the explosion occurred making him take the brunt of the flames and the force of the explosion. Granny Smith lay close by not moving, her neck broken. Applebloom lay close by to Applejack. Applejack reached out for Applebloom and scooped her tiny frame into her right arm and pulled her close to her face. Applebloom was not moving, her yellow colored fur blackened by the flames. Applejack looked at her blackened and bruised face . She began to cry and kissed Applebloom on the forehead trying to wake her up. Tears fell down her cheeks and onto the blackened earth below them. Applebloom’s eyes did not open; they remained closed signifying her passing from the world. Applejack cried again, tears falling freely from her eyes. Her body hurt and her skin burned. She looked up at their demolished house, the flames traveling from it to the trees nearest to it and so on. Applejack tried to stand up again. She forced herself up through the pain and burning of her body. She limped toward the flames wanting nothing more than to join her family in the afterlife but stopped short, unable to continue. She turned her head looking at the devastation around her, tears continuing to fall from her eyes. She turned her head back to her burning home. She stood and waited for the flames to reach her body. The flames made their way to her body and began to lick at her hooves on the ground. She winced in pain and slowly lay down on the ground to make her death quick and painless. A few moments later the flames enveloped her entire body. She could feel the fire searing away at her skin and her muscles. She could feel the flames tearing away at her but she could not die, she could only wish for death to come. She screamed in pain until her throat refused to scream again. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ “I’ll fight ya! Show yourself so I can kick your butt!” Rainbow Dash said while rearing up on her hind legs forcing her front hooves out in front of her like a boxer. “Hey Rainbow Dash! Come on! Remember you promised to teach how to fly today!” Rainbow Dash looked behind her and she Scootaloo standing there with a cheesy looking smile on her face ranging from ear to ear. Rainbow Dash looked at the orange and purple maned Pegasus for a moment. “Uhh…Yeah alright squirt. What should I teach you today? Mmmm…I got it why don’t I teach you how to do turns and stuff?” Rainbow said to the little Pegasus. Scootaloo only nodded quickly the smile still on her face. “Alright then first thing first, you need to get airborne.” Rainbow told the little Pegasus. Scootaloo began to flap her wings as quickly as she could to get airborne and hover in place for the lesson. “Good. Now in order to turn lean your body to the left or the right in order to turn in that direction. But don’t turn to hard or you’ll…” Rainbow stopped midsentence to see that Scootaloo had already leaned too far and had crashed into a tree to their left. Rainbow Dash face hoofed and walked over to help the little Pegasus. “Ugh, come on squirt, let’s go try something else. We’ll try turning again later.” She said while lifting Scootaloo off of the ground. Scootaloo nodded and trailed behind the rainbow maned Pegasus in front of her. They made their way to an open field just outside of Ponyville and near the edge of the Everfree forest. Rainbow Dash stopped and examined the surroundings making sure that it would be safe for them to practice here. She concluded that it would be fine for the time being. Rainbow Dash flew up and grabbed a small cloud from the sky. She motioned for Scootaloo to step up on it. Scootaloo jumped on it, obeying the motion. Rainbow Dash pushed the cloud back up into the sky. “Alright, Scoot, I want you to try to hover just off of the cloud. I’ll catch ya if you start to fall. So, don’t worry about it.” “Ok Rainbow Dash, if you say so.” Scootaloo said with hesitation. She flapped her wings has hard as she could and began to hover just off the cloud. Rainbow Dash waved a hoof beckoning her to come closer to her. Scootaloo leaned forward and began to drift closer to rainbow, a lesson they had covered previously. Rainbow backed up a little bit and allowed Scootaloo some space to hover. “Good. Now try to hold it as long as you can. When you start to feel tired move back over the cloud and drop back onto it.” Rainbow instructed. Scootaloo nodded and held a hover for a time, longer than what Rainbow had expected her to hold for. Scootaloo began ot get tired but ignored it trying to impress her hero. As she continued rainbow Dash began to get a little nervous. She was right to be. Scootaloo’s wings locked up after another minute of hovering and she began to plummet toward the ground below. She called for help and Rainbow Dash sped down to catch her. Rainbow caught Scootaloo just before she hit the ground but the awkward catch made her spiral out of control and smash into a nearby tree. They were covered in scratches and bruises. Scootaloo let out a whimper and rainbow slowly stood, wincing in pain and limping slightly but nothing was broken. She found Scootaloo under some brush and sticks. She grabbed the scruff of her neck and picked her out from under everything and set her down gently. She examined Scootaloo who was still clenching her teeth and mumbling something under her breath. Upon a closer investigation Rainbow Dash discovered that Scootaloo’s wing had been badly injured nearly turning itself around on its hinge joint where it connected to her body. She was surprised that Scootaloo was not screaming and crying, probably trying to impress her. Rainbow picked her up and placed her on her back. She began to walk as fast as she could without further injuring Scootaloo’s wing. She approached the hospital when it suddenly disappeared into darkness as did the rest of the scenery. Rainbow Dash began to get very nervous her usually calm and proud demeanor changing to fear for her little fan. “Rainbow Dash, my wing hurts.” Scootaloo said weakly from atop Rainbow’s back. “I know squirt. We were almost to the hospital when everything disappeared. I…I don’t know what to do. I’m sorry Scootaloo. Scootaloo? Yo squirt?” She beckoned while turning her head back to where Scootaloo lay on her back. Scootaloo’s head was facing her with black voids for eyes, she recoiled in shock making Scootaloo fall to the ground with a tiny thud. “Sc…Scootaloo? Squirt?” Scootaloo did not respond, she lied there on the ground silent. “Hey now, don’t do that! That’s not funny! I’m really worried about you right now.” She bellowed at Scootaloo’s lifeless body. She approached it and examined the body of her little fan girl. She winced as she turned her over and her stomach almost ejected its contents. Scootaloo’s head was bone with pieces of flesh and fur dangling of off it in places. She had maggots and worms slithering across the bridge of her nose, through her mouth and the all went into her empty eye sockets. “Why didn’t you come for me? You were my hero, my idol, and like a sister to me Rainbow Dash. Why didn’t you come for me?” Scootaloo said lying on her back the worms and maggots still crawling on her face. “What? I..I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Rainbow said her voice shaky with a hint of fear. “You didn’t come for me. You left me there, in the building. You didn’t save us. You were supposed to be a hero. You were my hero. You didn’t come for me.” Scootaloo said standing up, her skin peeling and falling off as she stood. She limped over to where Rainbow Dash was standing, her bones creaking and falling out of their sockets a few times. “Sq…Squirt? Wha…Wha…What happened to you?” She asked trying to get the thing in front of her to talk. Scootaloo’s decaying body advanced ever closer to Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash stepped backwards trying to stay away from the decaying mass in front of her. Rainbow could no longer hold back her tears and they began to stream down her face. She fell to the ground, the little body of Scootaloo coming closer. It stopped in front of her face and raised a hoof, the bones scratching and creaking. Rainbow looked at the skull in front of her orange fur still covering small areas of the face. The creature let her hoof come right across Rainbow’s face with a resounding “SMACK.” The body spoke to her yet again. “I would be alive if you had come for me that day. But you were too busy running like a coward. You never cared about me did you? You never cared. I’m not the monster here you are!” The body collapsed in a small pile of bones, skin and fur. Rainbow Dash looked at the pile in front of her and stood up slowly her head spinning. She stumbled a little bit when she got to her feet. She looked around her the darkness covering 360 degrees of her surroundings. She stared into the void around her and she began to feel sick. Her stomach ejected its contents onto the floor. She reeled back and felt a presence behind her. She turned her head to see red aura that was a perfect resemblance of her. She took a few steps back and bumped into another then another. She was surrounded by these red doppelgangers. They all kept calling her monster in her own voice for a few moments. Then, they all at once jumped on top of her and began to bite and tear away her skin and body parts. She felt her skin, body parts and innards being torn out, screaming at the top of her lungs she slipped into unconsciousness. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluttershy lay in the darkness curled into a ball crying at losing her friends somewhere. She felt a small tap on her forehead. She looked through her pink mane and saw Angel standing there with his arms crossed and tapping his foot in a fury. She looked at him and she noticed that he did not look well.  “Oh…Oh, my. Angel, are you ok? You really look awful.” Fluttershy asked in concern. Angel nodded his head left to right. She grabbed him in her mouth and placed him on her back and looked behind her looking for her cottage. Her cottage appeared as it had always looked. She quickly went inside only to find all of her animals lying on the couches, stairs and floor sick, some lying in their own vomit and blood in some cases. Fluttershy nearly panicked at the sight of them all. She hurried into the living room and placed Angel on the carpet that she had in the middle of the room.  She ran into her kitchen looking for her medicine stash that she kept in case of emergency’s but she had never had this many animals sick at once. She found her large medicine stash and went back into her living room. She looked at all of her animal friends lying sick and in pain in the middle of the floor. Her heart was breaking; she had never seen anything like this before. Her little friends began to throw up blood and phlegm, their bodies curling up in pain. She began to cry as she ran to each one of them trying to give them the medicine but none of them would take it. Fluttershy pleaded with them to take it in order to help them feel better but still they would not or they could not respond.  One of the animals began to cough violently and blood came spurting from its mouth. After a few minutes of nothing but violent coughing it lay still no longer moving. Fluttershy was standing over it stroking it with her hoof, tears streaming down her face realizing that it was too late for the creature. She looked around the room and all of her animals began to either cough up blood or vomit it in large quantities. She began to panic; for the first time in her life, she had no idea how to help her little friends. She broke down and began to cry on the floor, her animal friends’ blood covering her underbelly and hooves. She sat there and cried as her animal friends all died around her, not knowing how to help. “I’m sorry everypony, I’m so sorry.” She said in between her sobs. She lay there and cried as all of her animal friends died around her one by one bleeding and vomiting. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Pinkie Pie was walking in the darkness trying to locate her friends when she heard Mrs. Cake calling for her. She turned around and saw the kitchen of Sugar Cube Corner. She thought it was strange how it appeared but she didn’t care; she was home and ready to bake cupcakes. She went behind the counter and started her usual routine of getting all of her supplies and ingredients ready. Once those were ready, she began to make the cupcakes. When all the ingredients were mixed and the batter placed in the cupcake pan she placed them in the oven and awaited the ten minutes to their completion. She sat staring at the oven with a large grin on her face. The timer went off and she grabbed them out of the oven and let them cool before starting her favorite part of the project; decorating. The cupcakes cooled down and Pinkie Pie began to decorate them in a flash. She was done in only a few minutes if not less. She placed them on the counter top so she could put them on the rack later when the store opened.  When the store opened, Pinkie Pie was ready and waiting at the front desk waiting to fill any order that came in. A few minutes after the store opened a new stallion came walking in. He was a red unicorn with a black mane and a crossed sword cutie mark black in color to contrast against his coat.  “Hi! I’ve NEVER seen you around here before! Are you new here!?” Pinkie exclaimed in a loud voice.  “YES, I AM NEW BUT I’VE HEARD A LOT ABOUT MISS PIE.” He said his voice deep and loud.  “Really? What have you heard?”  “ONLY THAT YOUR CUPCAKES ARE TO DIE FOR.” He replied.  “I’ve never heard that one. But I don’t care would you like one?”  “ACTUALLY MISS PIE, I THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE THEM. AFTERALL IT WOULD ONLY SEEM FITTING TO HAVE THE ELEMENT OF LAUGHTER EAT HER OWN GOODIES, DON’T YOU THINK?” he said with a sinister tone.  Pinkie’s smile went away and she gave him a quizzical look. “How did you know that I was the Element of Laughter?” she asked suspicious of the pony in front of her.  “BECAUSE ELEMENT! YOUR IN MY WORLD NOW!” the unicorn bellowed and blasted her cupcakes with a large beam of red magical energy.  “HEY! What did you do to my cupcakes and what do you mean your world?” she yelled at him.  “YOU’LL SEE SOON ENOUGH.” He said disappearing into thin air, a chuckle emanating from the air in the building.  Pinkie watched as her cupcakes grew into large behemoths and grew faces, mouths, lines of sharp teeth and appendages. She backed up slowly still oblivious as to the unicorn’s identity. She watched as her beloved treats began to make grunting noises unable to talk and slid their way closer to her. She stared at them and began to laugh because of their display. The cupcake monsters stopped and looked on as Pinkie was rolling on the floor laughing at them. They roared at her and she sucked in her lips and watched them. They had frosting running out of their mouths as though it were drool. They slid their way to Pinkie who was a little nervous now and was no longer laughing.  The cupcakes began to smash the store with their arms and slid using their legs for momentum. Pinkie Pie jumped up began to scream at them to stop destroying here home and the shop. One of her cupcakes grabbed her in midair and held her in its hand. It stared at her and roared coating her in frosting spit. She escaped it and ran to the far side of the wall screaming. The giant cupcake followed her and cornered her IT licked its ‘lips’ and smashed down onto Pinkie Pie gulping her down in one massive bite. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Twilight awoke to darkness. She could not see in front of her or around herself.  The only thing that she knew was that she could not move. She tried to raise her arms and legs to get free but they were strapped down by something. She would have used her magic to escape from whatever this was but her magic would not work, it was as though it was being blocked. She struggled to get free again but again to no avail.  “OH, COME NOW TWILIGHT. YOU SHOULD ALREADY KNOW THAT YOU CAN’T ESCAPE THIS PLACE.” A loud voice boomed.  “Who’s there? Wait…” she thought for a moment. “Insanity! I know it’s you show yourself!”  “YOU’RE NO FUN TWILIGHT, BUT VERY WELL, I WILL SHOW MYSELF TO YOU AND I’LL SHOW YOU SOMETHING ELSE.” Insanity’s voice rang in the darkness.  The darkness vanished instantly and there Insanity stood looking over Twilight with a grin on his face, his old form returned. Twilight looked in horror as he stepped away to reveal similar sights to herself. Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy were in similar restraints their faces bloody and broken and their bodies were covered in cuts and bruises.  “What have you done to them!?” Twilight yelled at her former master.  “WHAT DID I DO TO THEM? OH, TWILIGHT, IT’S NOT WHAT I DID TO THEM; BUT WHAT YOU DID TO THEM.” He said to her matter-of-factly. “What are you talking about? I didn’t do anything to them!”  “OH BUT YOU DID. YOU BETRAYED THEM REMEMBER. YOU BECAME MY GENERAL AND HURT THE ONES THAT THEY LOVE AND CARED ABOUT. AND SO, THEY CAME LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT OF THEIR MISERY BUT AS YOU KNOW I LOVE TO SPREAD CHAOS AND MISERY AND MAKE PONIES GO CRAZY.” “You’re…You’re lying! I know you are!” Twilight screamed at him, unable to act upon her anger.  “YOU KNOW THAT I’M NOT LYING. BESIDES, I CAN REVERSE EVERYTHING THAT YOU SEE BEFORE YOU… INCLUDING, THE STATE OF THE PRINCESSES.” He said to her.  “The princesses? Their alive?”  “OF COURSE. YOU DIDN’T THINK I WOULD DESTROY THE DAUGHTERS OF MY MOST HATED ENEMY WHEN I CAN KEEP THEM AS TROPHIES INSTEAD. HAVE A LOOK.” He said snapping his fingers and another part of the room illuminated and there chained to the wall were the princesses. Insanity raised the table that Twilight was trapped on and turned it around for her to see them. Twilight’s heart broke at the pitiful state of her mentor and Luna.  “What do I need to do?” Twilight asked in defeat.  “SIMPLE, BECOME MY SERVANT ONCE AGAIN.”  Twilight’s mind went crazy trying to figure out what to do. She wracked her mind so she could figure out the best course of action. Whether to join Insanity once again, this time of her own free will or to stand by as a guardian of Equestria and say no.  “AND HERE’S A LITTLE SOMETHING TO HELP YOU MAKE YOUR DECISION.” Insanity said waving his hand. Small clouds of red formed near Twilight’s five friends and the princesses. Out of them came hideous looking creatures, small in size. They climbed onto her friends and the princesses and with Insanity’s command they began to bite down into the flesh of her friends. Her friends began to scream and squirm in their restraints as their skin was torn from their bodies. “NO! Stop it please!” Twilight screamed.  “THEN WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER?!”  “I…I…” Twilight stuttered.  Insanity did not call off his little creatures. “REMEMBER IF YOU MAKE THIS DEAL I WILL REVERSE ALL OF THE DAMAGE DONE TO YOUR FRIENDS AND THE PRINCESSES JUST SAY YES!”  Twilight looked around the room furiously at her friends and she had no choice but to agree to Insanity’s deal. She looked up at him when the room began to shake and crack.  “WHAT IS THIS? WHO’S DOING THIS?!” Insanity said in surprise. The room continued to break and crumble as a hand came down from the ceiling and grabbed Twilight. Twilight fought it trying to escape so she could go and save her friends and the princesses from what was happening to them. But the hand would not let her go. She fought and fought it until all was dark again.  _____________________________________________________________________________     Twilight awoke with a great gasp for air, she was flailing her limbs and her eyes were darting around the room in a hurry trying to figure out where she was. “Calm down, calm down! You’re safe now.” said Thanatos trying to calm her down, her friends looking at her with worry. “What happened to me?” Twilight asked with worry in her voice. “Insanity tried to drive you all crazy so that he could gain control of you. You all had visions.” “So that wasn’t real?” Twilight asked in disbelief. Thanatos shook his head. “But, it was so real, I thought you all were going to be eaten alive right in front of me.” She rubbed her head with her hoof and looked at all of her friends. “What did you all see?” “I think it’s best if we don’t talk about it right now there’s no time to waste. The sooner we stop Insanity the better.” Thanatos told them, to which they all agreed not wanting to remember their visions. They all stood up and turned in the direction of the throne room. “THANATOS?! YOU’RE THE ONE! YOU WILL PAY DEARLY FOR SUCH TREACHERY!” They all looked in front of them a red aura silhouette. Forming in the distance. “I WILL MAKE YOU ALL SUFFER FOR THIS! YOU DARE TO INVADE MY HOME TO TRY TO OVERTHROW ME! YOU WILL DIE FOR THIS! ALL OF YOU!” They watched as the aura became closer revealing Insanity, his body bone and red energy. He glared at them as though he were going to wipe them out then and there. “I WILL KILL YOU ALL!” NEXT CHAPTER FURY OF THE ELEMENTS