“Where are your friends, Dinky?” The voice came. Taunting me, it made me regret leaving. If I hadn’t had left then It wouldn’t speak to me like this. “They left. They knew they couldn’t stand against me.”
“They’re here.” I said in the most reassuring voice I had.
“Are you sure? Because you look quite alone,” again he came with an evil laugh.
“I see them over there in the cages. You put them there!” I talked at him. I was done with this I can’t play games now. wanted my friends back.
“How can you tell? This placed is very dark.”
“This place is dark, because you made it this way. And it’s not all that dark, I can still see through the…” It hit me. I was right. I knew what this was.
We had gathered shiny things to combat the darkness. This darkness was not worthy.
“You are not even as powerful as you think yourself to be.” I told him off. “You think that you have such dominance over us? You think that you’re strong? You’re just the sort of villain from my books. You demonstrate a sense of darkness in this world that we all must face, but no matter how dark it gets, there is always light. There is always one no matter how small to combat the darkness, only those brave enough to stand against it are enough.”
“Can you be so sure?” He responded in the evilest of voices. the words themselves brought me to my knees. I wriggled under the force of his voice, It hurt me, and stung to the point that I was brought to tears. It was like a large ripple of electricity, blowing throughout my body, back especially. I could only feel the pain of this situation, the hurt of his very words.
“Can you be so sure that you will live the remaining seconds of your life in this agony?”
I shook my head. I knew now that I would only live for a few moments by the conclusion of those last words of his. I would spend them with my friends.
“Good, then you have sense enough to choose a mildly longer life.” He snickered.
I closed my eyes and prepared myself for him encagement, but when I opened them, I was already in my own cage. The bars of frozen blackness seemed to glare at me, and tell me that I will not escape. That I would spend forever here, and that forever would only last minutes.
“Oh ye that cast me off, that banished me far,
I do say congrats, but I have to say,
While you think I’m gone, I’ll take your guard.
And you’ll tell when I come by no light of day.
So you think that I’m gone?
There is only one cure, and that’s light in the dark
How else can you this be known?
And forever in the dark, you know in your heart.
The dark you trust,
And the weak be strong
And I will be back to destroy the must.
And then you count my sentence long?
I will bring first down the queen,
And then shall they go, I show the ponies freedom
They will see what I do when I’m mean.
Don’t fight the darkness from Tartarus, fair one.”
He recited the words that he had left in the darkness of Celestia’s castle. “Those are the words I left with your fair princess, she has wandered the halls many a year wondering what it meant. The truth is: it means that your special guardian, Cerberus will die in his own despair. I will hold you all witness as I destroy the greatest source of love in your world, Celestia herself. I will then slowly take each of your souls… and dispose of them.”
“Why?” some random pony weeped.
“Have you found any light in the room? Have you seen my face? I will take great pleasure in watching you burn, I am the darkness, I live to determine you will not.”
He then lit his face and I could see clearly that he was an alicorn with an amulet dark as the cages that bound us.
I was hopeless. I had nothing. I was friendless.
“Dinky?” Applebloom behind me noticed with the light that Acerbus now shown.
I was in the same cage as them.
We all hugged each other (four different ways).
“You tried, Dinky,” Applebloom recalled back to me.
Acerbus was going to destroy us, now. No doubts.
I turned to watch as Acerbus used his magic to send out a ray of lava-hot fire as white and bright as diamonds and as fast as Rainbow Dash on a windy day: burn Celestia into no more than the cage that she had just been in, and the crown that she had once wore.
“Your princess is dead!” Acerbus shouted cheerfully. You all belong to me.” and the echos floated throughout the nowhere that we dwelt in.