Meanwhile back on Earth.
Twilight Sparkle walked into her spartan kitchen where a bizarre sight greeted her; some child or imp thing was sitting at her table making itself some tea. The creature was stirring in some milk, and far too much sugar, as if being in her house making tea was the most normal thing in the world.
Half of its outfit was blue with it’s edges ending in spikes and two demonic wings sprouted from its back, and the other half was red with its edges ending with poofy frills and two angelic wings sprouting from its back. It had long blonde hair that’s ends matched the trim of her dress, and atop her head, with the same color scheme as its outfit, was a hat with a third set of wings.
“Wait” Twilight thought, “did those wings on the hat just move?”
She stared at the wings in question, and could have sworn that she saw a slight twitch from them.
...No. Even after finding out magic was real and getting rainbows to the face, hats with naturally moving wings was just…
The Imp smiled at her, and gestured for her to sit down.
“Don’t worry” The imp said smiling pleasantly, “I made you some tea too. You’ll have to do the milk and sugar yourself, though. I don’t know how much you like.”
Twilight sat down slowly.
“I, uh, prefer coffee.” She said, her mind still overwhelmed at the mere sight of the creature before her, “Black.”
The imp just continued to smile sincerely at her.
“My apologies.” It said, “and I must apologize again.”
“Why?” Twilight asked blinking.
“I must ask a selfish request of you before I can help you with your unhappiness.” The imp explained.
Twilight deadpanned at this.
“Who wouldn’t be unhappy after their life became an endless parade of unnatural things.” She said as she looked at the imp pointedly, “And then get blasted by rainbows powered by ‘friendship’ that...took something from me…”
“Oh, your soul?” The imp asked compassionately as it reached over and patted her hand, “You still have it.”
“What?” Twilight asking blinking some more
“The Source sealed your ability to ‘use’ your magic. It didn’t take your soul. It would never do that.”
The imp took a sip of its tea.
“Of course, the difference might be purely academic to someone like you. Which actually brings me to my request.”
The imp looked directly at her.
“Where is the other Messiah?”
“Messiah?” Twilight asked a confused.
“Was she being serious?”
“The one who used The Source to seal your magic.” The imp explained while taking a sip of tea.
Twilight thought for a moment. She must have meant….Sunset Shimmer and her friends.
“Canterlot High.” Twilight stated quickly.
Now that she’d told this thing what it wanted to know, maybe it would get out of her kitchen so she could get back to studying and make sense of all this madness.
“Thank very much.” The imp nodded happily “Now we can focus on you.”
“Nope.” Twilight thought as she sighed with disappointment and frustration, “it’s not leaving.”
“What do you want?” Twilight asked as she glared at the imp.
“I want to free you of your unhappiness.” It said.
“As if you could just flip a switch and end unhappiness.” Twilight said, the annoyance clear in her voice, “If you could do that, that’d be great; but you can’t.”
The imp smiled at her compassionately.
“But I can.”
Twilight rolled her eyes at that.
“Prove it.” She demanded,
The imp smiled.
“Thank you for letting me help you.” It said.
It then began looking her over from where it sat.
“ Hmmmmm. Gluttony, yes.” It said, “that is the desire that you overindulge in. Your hunger for knowledge is what makes you unhappy.”
Twilight looked at the Imp accusingly. She opened her mouth to say something, but as she did, a huge dragon head made of blue flame poured itself from the Imps eyes and mouth.
“Meet gluttony.” The imp stated plainly.
Twilight fell backwards in her chair as she looked on in fear as the dragon head approached her. She frantically backed away from it, heart pounding as she could practically feel it growling hungrily at her.
“My apologies for the fright. He does tend to do that, but, as promised, you will never know suffering again. No thanks are necessary,” She said as she finished her tea.
“You won’t mind if I take your tea to go of course.” She giggled at her joke as she stirred some milk and sugar into Twilight’s cup, for there was no one else there to hear it now.
“To Canterlot High it appears then.” The imp said as she got up and left taking the second cup of tea with her.