//------------------------------// // Ana's Corronation and the Second Prison Break. // Story: A Lost Soul Returns: The King of Monsters // by Dark Star the Crazed //------------------------------// I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. ~ Albert Einstein. One week later. Twilight, Fang, and their friends were overseeing and helping with some festival preparations. Twilight had Dawn and Dusk with her, in a foal carrier that was strapped to her chest, every time one of the citizens saw the foals they gave a small 'd'awww'. "Hey Twilight!" The purple mare turned and saw Rainbow, her coltfriend Thunder Dust, and her coltfriend's sister, Lightning Dust. "What's going on? What's with all the decorations?" Twilight sighed. "If you had been listening when I told you yesterday than you would know that Ana's coronation is tomorrow." Twilight turned and saw that Lightning Dust was looking directly at her chest. "Umm... Why are you staring at my foals?" "They... They are just too adorable to be real..." Twilight looked down and saw what she meant, at the moment Dawn was sucking on her right forehoof. Dusk yawned and his eyes fluttered open. He looked around and his eyes finally settled on Lightning. He smiled and waved at the pegasus with a foalish giggle. Lightning just waved back. "Hi..." Rainbow walked up to Twilight and saluted. "What should we do?" "Could you help Tsuki, Pinkie and Jekyll with the decorations in the castle?" Rainbow, Lightning and Thunder nodded and flew off towards the castle. Tsuki was helping Pinkie and Jekyll put up banners when Rainbow, Thunder and a pony she did not know flew into the room. "Um... Did I do something that made it so Twilight and Fang need five ponies to be with me at all times? It was almost unbearable with just Pinkie and Jekyll..." Rainbow smiled and shook her head. "Nah, Twilight just wanted us to help you three with the decorations inside the castle... Besides, I think Twilight is going easy on you because you and Ana seem to get along pretty well." Tsukiyomi blinked. "That's nice but... Um... Who is she?" Tsuki pointed at Lightning and the turquoise mare smiled. "Name's Lightning Dust, Thunder is my little bro... Who are you?" "I'm Tsukiyomi, Tsuki for short." Lightning blinked. "Wait... Tsukiyomi... As in the mare who ripped off a stallion's horn and shoved it straight up his-" The mare was cut off when Rainbow shoved a hoof in her mouth. Ana had just walked into the room, she had a cookie in her mouth. The young princess walked up to the ponies that were gathered, and gave a salute before walking off towards her room, where Rarity would be making some adjustments to the dress she was going to wear at her coronation. As soon as she was gone the cyan mare took her hoof out of Lightning's mouth. "Let me guess, they don't like ponies to curse in front of their daughter, right?" Everypony in the room nodded in conformation. Lightning then flew up to Tsuki. "So why did you... Well, you know..." "The miserable pile of fur that I am sure Fang is ashamed to call one of his subjects tried to force himself on me after hitting me with a paralysis spell... He won't be doing that to another mare anytime soon..." Lightning gulped at her nonchalant tone, she knew one thing about this mare for sure now. She knew that she didn't want to make her angry... Fang was walking down the street with Twilight and their foals. The two passed by Soul, Trixie, and their pet fox, as well as their familiar, Rouge. Near them was Cheshire, who was making some sleeping flowers bloom. Twilight had asked what Cheshire's power as an archdemon was, apparently it was the ability to cause things, such as pumpkins, apples, fish, much to the demonic cat's enjoyment, and many other things, to grow in size, or in the case of plants, grow into maturity, apparently the only things he couldn't make grow were sentient beings. "Soul, Trixie, how are the firework preparations coming along?" The two blue unicorns turned and smiled at the alicorns. "They are almost ready, and when they explode they are going to be in the shape of snowflakes like you requested." Fang nodded at his friends and walked off as they returned to their work. "Ok Twilight, Soul and Trixie are doing fine, so who's next on the list?" Twilight looked down at a clipboard that she had in hoof. "Fireworks, check. Next stop is Sweet Apple Acres to see how Applejack, North, Spike, and the Crusaders are doing with the banquet preparations." Fang sighed. As the two walked off, arriving at Sweet Apple Acres after about twelve minutes. "Please remind me, why did I let those four fillies, and Hex help with the apple based dishes that we are going to be serving to the nobles and dignitaries at dinner tomorrow?" Twilight giggled as she rubbed Dusk's head. The little colt was currently looking around, amazed by how many shiny red, green, and yellow things were growing on the things his parents constantly referred to as trees. "Because they asked nicely and you don't have the heart to say no when a filly is giving you a pouty lip and puppy dog eyes." Fang sighed knowing that what his wife said was true. He just couldn't say no to a filly when they were giving him a pouty lip and puppy dog eyes. Fang suddenly bumped into Twilight and opened his eyes. His jaw went slack when he saw the sheer amount of apple based dishes that had been prepared since this morning. He could see so many pies, tarts, and many other treats, that they could feed the entirety of Ponyville and Canterlot combined for a week. Fang just stood there for a few minutes, staring at the amount of treats. "How is that even possible?" Fang looked down and saw the paw prints of a certain cat on the ground. "Well... That explains it, Cheshire was here. I think that thanks to their work, and Cheshire's ability to make things grow in size, we are going to have more than enough apple based treats... We will use a third, the rest is going to the poor and homeless... Does that sound good?" Twilight nodded as they walked up to the farmhouse and entered. Fang was immediately confronted by Apple Bloom, who had a serious look on her face. "What? Did I do something to offend you? I apologize if I did..." "Taste." Fang and Twilight raised an eyebrow each and opened their mouths to ask what she meant, but soon found that their mouths were filled with a slice of apple pie. Fang and Twilight closed their mouths, chewed and swallowed. A large grin soon spread over their faces. The purple mare looked down at Apple Bloom, and the rest of the crusaders, who had come out of the kitchen to be there when they heard the response of the two alicorns. "Best apple pie I've ever had." "Second best apple pie I've ever had." Twilight, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Babs, and Hex frowned at Fang's response. "Please don't take offense, it is the best apple pie I've eaten since I was freed from my stone imprisonment. However I ate an apple pie made by Applejack, not Applebloom's big sister, the original Applejack, the one that the Apple Family is descended from. Soul will agree with me that she made the best apple pies in history." The crusaders had stopped paying attention after he had said that they were the best apple pies he had eaten since he was freed. Sadly, none of the fillies had received their cutie mark. Meanwhile, in the castle. Ana was standing on a platform in front of a mirror while Rarity got her measurements. "So Ana, are you excited for tomorrow?" The little filly shook her head. "What? Why ever not?" "I have to stand in front of an entire kingdom while I'm crowned and officially recognized as a Transylmaneian royal. And then I'm going to have dinner with about forty nobles. If I don't do good then I'll be despised by the nobles, I'm going to disappoint mommy and daddy, which will ruin their relationship, they'll get divorced, and send me to an orphanage!" Ana began to sob. "I don't want to be alone again!" Rarity crouched down and hugged the weeping filly. "Don't cry Ana, I can assure you that none of those terrible things will happen. And do you know why?" Ana shook her head. "W-why?" "Because Fang and Twilight love you like you are their own flesh and blood, they love you too much to ever send you to a place like an orphanage. As far as they are concerned you aren't adopted, because you are their child just as much as Dawn and Dusk are. In fact the only reason they didn't take them with you was because I wanted some input from you on what you would like your dress to look like." Rarity smiled at the little filly, who smiled back in turn. "I just want it to look pretty..." Rarity smiled. "Pretty? I think that I can do that." The rest of the day went smoothly and the preparations were finished with time to spare. Ana's dress was silver with light cerulean snowflake patterns stitched in and a sapphire, snowflake shaped clasp on the front of the dress. Tomorrow, Ana officially became Transylmaneian royalty. The next day. Ana came in from the balcony after she was crowned, the crown was a simple silver in color shaped like Celestia and Luna's crowns, with a dark blue sapphire in the center of it. However now it was time for what she had been dreading. Dinner with the nobility. She quickly made her way to the front doors of the castle where her parents were waiting to greet the nobles as they arrived. A guard opened the doors and looked out. "Announcing the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Maretonia." The duke and duchess entered and bowed to the three alicorns, to which only Ana bowed back. They then went to walk past, only for Fang to stop the duke. He whispered something into his ear and Twilight saw the blood drain from the duke's face before he walked away. Twilight teleported Fang and herself away from Ana and looked at her husband. "What did you say to him?" Fang gave a small smirk. "I just told him that if he thought that he had any power here, he was wrong, and that our subjects do not appreciate being told what to do. They are fine with somepony asking them to do something, but telling them to do something if you have no power here? No. That is basically a death sentence." Twilight nodded in understanding. "Announcing the arrival of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna of Equestria." Twilight and Fang turned and saw the white and blue alicorns enter. They bowed their heads to Ana, a action that she copied, bowing her head to her aunts. "Hello Ana. Or is it your highness now?" Celestia spoke those words with a small smirk on her face. "Just Ana is fine Aunt Celestia." Ana turned and looked at Luna. "Hello Aunt Luna... Why isn't cousin Dream here?" Luna frowned. "She wanted to come, so did Sunset, but they caught an extremely bad strain of the flu and are bed ridden..." Ana frowned, but nodded. "I understand, they wanted to come but they needed to rest. It is for the best." Celestia and Luna nodded and passed the little filly. Fang sighed. "Look at her. She is trying so hard to be a grown up at the moment... And it is because she doesn't want to disappoint us..." Twilight nodded. "I'm proud of her for that, but she should know by now, she would need to do something extremely bad to disappoint us..." The two teleported next to their daughter and nuzzled her. The guard at the front door groaned in misery. "Announcing the arrival of... Prince Blueblood of Equestria..." The pompous unicorn walked in. "Be joyful that you were the one allowed to speak my name mongrel!" He walked past the werewolf guard with his head held high. Two other guards looked at the werewolf. "Hold. Me. Back." The two guards ran over and grabbed the werewolf before he did something he would regret. Blueblood walked up to Ana and looked down. He didn't bow his head, he just looked down. "I do not appreciate you treating my subjects like that Blueblood." The unicorn scoffed. "That's Prince Blueblood to you, you freakish filly." Ana frowned at the unicorn's comment, but she didn't let it get to her. Fang however grabbed Blueblood and teleported away. "Unhoof me you ruffian!" The black alicorn just growled at him. "Insult my daughter, one of the guards, or one of the castle servants again and I will have you imprisoned for harassment." Blueblood smirked. "Go ahead and charge me, they wouldn't dare convict me. I am a prince." Fang smirked. The fanged smile of the vampony caused Blueblood to gulp. "Oh really? You think they wouldn't convict you because you are Celestia's, and by extent, my nephew?" The unicorn nodded. "Let me tell you something Blueblood, you may have power in Equestria, but here? You are nothing but a pony with a title in front of his name." The unicorn smirked once again. "Even so, Auntie Celestia would just get me tried in Canterlot instea-" "No she couldn't, while my little sisters have power here, it doesn't changed the fact that, at the moment, Transylmaneia doesn't recognize extradition treaties." Blueblood raised an eyebrow. "In other words... You wouldn't be transferred to Canterlot for a trial. You would be tried here, and then there is that fact that you are extremely disliked by my subjects. So you would probably be convicted." Fang leaned in extremely close to Blueblood's face. "I'm sure that the murderers and rapists in any one of the prisons here in Transylmaneia would just love you... To death... Do you understand me?" Blueblood nodded in fear. "Good... Now have a nice dinner." Fang patted Blueblood on the cheek before he teleported him to the dining room and teleported himself back to his wife and daughter. "Announcing the arrival of Princess Mi Amore Cadenza and Prince Consort Shining Armor of the Crystal Empire." The pink alicorn and white unicorn walked in and bowed to the three alicorns. This process continued for about thirty more minutes, then the feast began and to Ana's relief, it went off without a hitch. Unknown to Fang, Twilight, and their circle of friends, the archdemon know as Lepus was lurking in Tartarus once more. That night in Tartarus. Lepus flew up to Cerberus and choked him with his smoky body until he passed out. The rabbit then flew up to three familiar creatures. "You lost... You... Lost... YOU FUCKING LOST TO THOSE PONIES!!!" Tirek, Arabus, and Grogar cringed at the rabbit's anger. "I should destroy all of you! That way you wouldn't be able to disappoint me again! However... I think that I'll set you free so you can try again... But first... We need a... New recruit..." The cages of the three creatures disappeared and they were dragged deeper into Tartarus, they went from the first level, their level, to the second. Soon they came upon a statue that resembled Discord, only much, much, sinister looking. "Break him out of his stone prison." The centaur looked at the rabbit and the other two escaped prisoners. "How? We don't have any strength lef-" He was cut off when a ball of orange energy was thrown into his mouth. The centaur began to grow, becoming his revitalized form once more, but not at full strength. The same thing happened when Lepus gave Grogar a green ball of energy and Arabus a black one. "... Never mind." The three revitalized creatures charged up the strongest magical blast they could, and the stone started to crack and fall away, eventually revealing a creature with the body of a snake, the front legs of an eagle, the hind legs of a rhino, the head of a pony, the wings of a dragon, the eyes of a goat, the tongue of a frog, the tail of a wolf, and the whiskers of a catfish. The creature stood there for a second before speaking, its voice was deep and gravelly, as if it spoke by grinding stone against stone. "So long I have been imprisoned within this prison of stone and darkness... Now I will have my revenge on the ones who imprisoned me..." The beast's eyes glowed green for a second before turning back to normal. Lepus flew in between the creature and the three two time escapees. "Tirek, Arabus, Grogar, meet Jibber. Jibber, meet Tirek Arabus and Grogar. I know you all want your revenge and you shall have it... Now... Go and take your power back once more!" The four creatures disappeared and Lepus smirked. "Survive my minions this time Fang... You won't be able to beat Jibber..." Celestia, Luna, Cadence, Soul, and Fang all woke up screaming that night. In youth we learn; in age we understand. ~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach.