Trixie and Maud: Heart of Stone

by TheCrimsonDM

Chapter Seventy Seven: Pain, Past, and no Pity

”Trixie,” called the gentle voice of a kind mare.

Turning away from her view on the balcony, Trixie saw Fluttershy walking up to her. Fluttershy looked away shyly. Trixie’s heart began racing. Out of nervous habit, Trixie began stroking the amulet around her neck.

“What is it?” Trixie asked coldly.

“I, um, well if you don’t mine that is,” Fluttershy stammered.

The air was still and Trixie felt the call of something powerful, it wanted her to succeed at her objective of humiliating Twilight, and ruling Ponyville. Fluttershy rambled on in the background but her words were lost on Trixie, as she stared blankly at the pegasus. Destiny had finally given her the power to control the things around her, and this time she would make sure that life treated her fairly.

“Stop your incessant mumbling,” Trixie demanded, effectively silencing Fluttershy. “Trixie is far too busy to deal with you at the moment.”

“But Tri- I mean my mistress,” Fluttershy said meekly. “I wanted to make you happy… I haven’t seen your smile in such a long time.”

“It has been two days, Fluttershy. Trixie has only been in command for two days. Maybe you should wait until,” Trixie began but slowed down as a dark thought came to her. The yellow one wanted to make her happy; maybe the yellow one could do something to please her. “Oh our beautiful servant, you only want to make Trixie happy. This can be arranged.”

Dark thoughts of the various acts of depravity she could enact upon the pegasus played in her mind. She had all the means to make this happen. Ropes, chains, and magic, those were the only things required to make Fluttershy squeal, whether it was in pain, or delight. The kind look on Fluttershy’s face stalled Trixie’s mind and stilled her racing heart. She regretted ever thinking of the mare in such context. The things she had imagined would be too cruel, even for the ponies in this traitorous town.

“Fluttershy, you need to leave,” Trixie said flatly.

“But, but I want to stay by your side. I don’t care about what happens to anypony else, I just want to be with you,” Fluttershy begged.

Trixie closed her eyes. “Then that is to be your punishment for not standing up for Trixie when she was attacked by your friends, when they ruined her show, and for when they ruined her life.”

A sad look came into Fluttershy’s eyes, but Trixie feared that she couldn’t keep herself away from the mare for long. Trixie needed to remove Fluttershy from Ponyville before things went sour. “Fluttershy, you will leave Ponyville, never to return. You will not say good bye to your friends, and you will leave in secret. Should you ever return, Trixie will hurt you.”

Fluttershy sniffed and said, “Oh, okay.”

Trixie looked outside again, and off in the distance she spotted a hollow log. Despite the dark influence from the power she now wielded she couldn’t afford to hurt Fluttershy. Fluttershy was the only pony whom she ever loved, that actually loved her back. Their relationship was awkward to be sure, but that didn’t mean she could let the gentle pony be hurt.

“Fluttershy, you will be safer out there than you are in here, with Trixie.” Trixie said, somberly. “There is a hollowed log by the outer wall. Go there and hide inside of it.”

“But, why?” Fluttershy asked quietly.

For a moment Trixie attempted to consider this. She was punishing Fluttershy by sending her away, and she was saving Fluttershy by the same deed. Trixie felt like her mind was clouded and her heart felt lower than she had ever realized was possible. Nothing was making sense to her, and so with very careful words Trixie said, “Trixie wants you to leave. Nothing else matters right now, so go. We will meet you by that log in an hour.”

Fluttershy lowered her head and left. When Trixie felt secure of the fact that she was alone again she looked at the mirror and said, “We are setting that one free.”

The mirror flashed a sharp toothed grin, and pleasure filled its yellow eyes. “You are truly delicious, did you know that. I’ll allow the yellow thing to be freed, she is virtually useless anyway. The others must all suffer though, especially that Twilight Sparkle and her little friends, for what they did to us.”

“Trixie knows this!”

“Good, then we shall continue our work tomorrow,” The mirror said darkly.

Trixie’s two most prominent servants were downstairs at the moment awaiting her orders. It was going to be fun punishing those two for what they did to her wagon. As Trixie left the room to go and meet her servants she stopped for only a moment and considered the fact that she had never wanted to attack Ponyville before she found the amulet, a dark presence took a cloth and wiped the thought clean from her mind. Trixie smiled and left the room.

Molten lead poured into Trixie’s right shoulder forcing her eyes wide open. With a new scream she looked at her back and found the bone had crawled even further out of her body. Her face was wet from the constant run off of tears, and her throat was raw from the constant screaming. The pain died down again and she looked around for anypony that could help her.

Red Velvet was missing. The sun was shining through the windows, its light spread into the large open room that Trixie lay in. It took her a moment to realize that she was actually in a new room. Trixie attempted to push herself up but her entire body suddenly throbbed in pain. She gave up before she even began.

A sickly feeling coated her back and following that a fresh wave of pain. It was as though acid was being rinsed over her shoulder and the new bony appendage. She tried to look at the bone but after seeing how long it was she nearly threw up, and she would have too if she had anything left inside her.

The bone as it were, was actually now a series of interconnecting bones. Muscle, nerve ending, and raw flesh were growing slowly from the base of the new appendage. Whatever Red Velvet had done to her, it felt wrong, and was more painful than anything she had ever experienced in her life.

“I see that you are awake,” Red Velvet said.

“Kill me, please kill me,” Trixie begged. This hadn’t been the first time she had woken up during the course of this transformation.

“It has only been two days, Trixie. When you get to the third day, than you may beg for death,” Red Velvet replied coldly.

Trixie attempted to understand how two whole days could have passed, but the pain killed any coherent thought. She wanted nothing more than death; somewhere deep down she felt she had deserved this, but the feeling only kept her from killing herself to end the pain, just barely. The thing that made her struggle to stay alive was the promise that she would be better; the idea that the pain would go away after this magic had been worked through her. When that happened she had only one goal; she was going to kill Red Velvet for this.

“I see that look in your eyes,” Red Velvet said. “I’m looking forward to how you act when this is all over.” With a swift motion, Red Velvet gently tapped the new bone sticking out of Trixie’s back.

The scream that escaped Trixie’s mouth after that could not be described as such. To call it a simple scream would do it injustice. The volume of her voice hit such a high pitch that the glass in the windows nearly shattered.

Hurting Trixie was one thing, but when Red Velvet grinned at Trixie’s howl of agony, it was insulting. Thankfully the pained unicorn was allowed the comfort of passing out again after that.

“Do it,” dared Minuette.

“I don’t want to kiss that thing,” Trixie replied. “It’s disgusting.”

“And covered in bird poop,” Lyra joked.

“Well actually it’s more like bird pee, birds don’t exactly-“ Twilight began explaining.

“Whatever, egghead. Come on, Trixie, you lost the bet so you have to make out with it,” Minuette said.

With a nervous look, Trixie stared at the statue of the monstrous creature before her. She had just barely gotten her cutie mark a week ago, and now she was going to kiss some kind of dragon, pony, deer, bird, and bat hybrid. The mere thought was sickening to say the least.

“You gonna chicken out?” Minuette asked playfully.

“I’m no chicken,” Trixie stated proudly. “I just don’t see why I have to kiss Discard.”

“Discord,” Twilight corrected.

“Whatever.”

Minuette let out a sigh before saying, “You made the bet; that I couldn’t beat the time trial for destroying bricks with my magic, I not only beat the record, I got my cutie mark. Now pucker up, and kiss that that rock.”

With a sigh, Trixie gave up on fighting it. Minuette was right, she had made her bed and now it was time to lay in it. “This is going to be weird.”

Trixie climbed up onto the statue but wasn’t nearly tall enough to reach the face. It took three fillies balancing nervously on top of one another’s back before Trixie could reach the statues mouth. She looked long and hard into the monstrous rock’s eyes before coming to a single conclusion. He must be singing, she thought to herself.

She leaned in and quickly kissed the monster on the bottom of his jaw before pulling back. She smiled at her success. When the statue turned its head to stare at her and grinned she stopped smiling.

“Oh my, I feel so utterly violated now,” The statue said to her.

A dark green aura surrounded the statue’s eyes and suddenly Trixie felt ill. Something was wrong with her and she looked down at the fillies still holding her up. None of them looked worried, so she looked back up and the statue had returned to its normal posture.

“Did you see that? That thing just moved, and it spoke to Trixie!” Trixie cried out.

“No it didn’t, and why are talking like that,” Minuette asked.

“Like what?”

“Like a weirdo.”

“I do not speak like a weirdo, you do!”

“You need to drink,” Red Velvet demanded.

Trixie shoved the bowl of water away and shouted, “I WANT TO DIE!”

Red velvet simply set the bowl back up and refilled it with water. “You can’t die yet. You are the only friend that I have.”

“Then I disown you, now you can KILL ME!”

Red Velvet looked hurt by Trixie’s words at first, but then she looked angry. “If you don’t drink, than I will step on your wound again!”

The threat was just horrible enough to make Trixie lean over and stick her muzzle into the bowl. As she tried to drink the water she coughed and cried from all the pain. In the end more water fell onto the floor than went down her throat.

Trixie was in constant torture over the limb, she wanted it gone, she wanted to die, she just wanted to stop hurting. The appendage had spread out several tendrils each one had flesh and meat spread between them. It was like looking at a disgusting spider web, but it felt like being thrown into a wood chipper and not allowed to die.

“Please let me die,” Trixie begged.

“Never,” Red Velvet replied coldly. “After everything that I’ve done for you, do you honestly believe that I would just let you die? If you survive I can promise you one thing, everything that you ever wanted will within hoofs reach.”

“No, I want to die,” Trixie cried.

Suddenly her body was racked with another surge of twisted agony and her vision went black. She fell into the darkness yet again and refused to come back out. This time the agony stayed with her as she descended into a world of blackness, and the pain increased tenfold. Her entire body felt like it was being torn apart and stitched back together; slowly the needles threaded themselves through her frame. If only she were lucky, than she could have been allowed to die then and there.

The world around Trixie was sparkling and the ground had become mere clouds. It was like she was floating far above the world but as she looked down there was no world to speak of. Orbs of bright light floated around her, and for the moment there was no pain. Blue white light streamed around her flying in random directions while leaving colorful trails behind them.

She may have had no idea where she was, but that didn’t matter for the world had finally stopped hurting. A soft smile could be seen on her face as she enjoyed the moment of peace. If this was heaven, then she wanted to stay forever.

The world began twisting around her, and bleeding into darkness. Slowly she felt the pain coming back and she cried softly. She didn’t want to return to the world, to her body, where all she would feel is torment. Without being given a choice Trixie fell through the clouds and into the blackness below where she knew only pain would be waiting for her.

The morning sun had come again and its bright rays of hope shone down upon the sleeping form of the light blue unicorn known as Trixie. Slowly Trixie opened her eyes and groaned. For a moment she waited in silence for the agonizing torture to begin anew. When it didn’t come back she smiled, exhaustedly.

She had won, the pain was gone, and now she could finally return home and be useful again. Trixie looked again at her back and her eyes widened in horror. Out from Trixie’s back a new limb had certainly been made, but she had expected anything but what she saw. A dark blue wing, much darker than the color of her fur, sprouted from her shoulder and lay limp by her side, dimly glowing runes could be seen where the bone was.

“W-w-what?” Trixie asked, confused.

“You survived the third day, Trixie. And look where you are now,” Red Velvet said gently. “You have a wonderful new wing and your magic is stronger than ever before.”

Trixie looked around for the source of Red Velvet’s voice but could find not find the unicorn around her. “Where, what, how?”

“I’m right here,” Red Velvet said from above Trixie.

Slowly Trixie looked up and saw the unicorn that had done this to her hovering in the air above her. Two yellow wings matching Red Velvet’s fur kept the unicorn aloft in the air. Trixie’s mind was unable to put together exactly what she was staring at.

“How?” Trixie asked.

“You see I once served our beloved Princess Celestia, only when I found out the truth I rebelled alongside one of my brethren, he and I fought about how she should be defeated, and eventually he betrayed me, leaving Celestia to curse and banish me. He didn’t escape unscathed though, as I got him back.

“My power and my identity were taken from me. I was then locked away in Tartarus alongside Tirus, or as you would call him, Tirek,” Red Velvet explained. “Unfortunately my brother in arms, Ash, was left on the surface to enact his dastardly plans. Ash believed that it was possible to defeat Celestia, only by bringing out the worst enemies she had ever fought. Sombra, Nightmare Moon, Discord, and even Tirek were tools that he was not afraid to use. I disagreed with him, hence why Celestia defeated me.”

Trixie’s mind couldn’t wrap around the concept of what she was seeing before her. As Red Velvet landed Trixie could only gasp as her mind found a relation to the name that was just mentioned. “Ash is the name of the pony that hurt my mother.”

“I told you he was dangerous,” Red Velvet said.

Trixie’s mind went back to the limp limb at her side and she suddenly asked, “My back, my… wing. What the Tartarus did you do to me? What am I?”

“You are not exactly an alicorn, if that’s what you were asking,” Red Velvet explained. “After Celestia defeated the empire, a lot of research was done on how to artificially create an alicorn. The research, for the most part, was a complete failure. One experiment succeeded though, The Dark Wing Project. Most ponies that went through it would die, but the survivors were incredible to say the least.

“The most incredible feature was the way they healed from all physical and mental wounds… with time. Mental retardation, missing limbs, and even dark curses, there was not a single problem that this ritual supposedly couldn’t fix. Of course the ponies in question were not invincible, and often times their wings were completely useless aesthetics. It takes a lot of alicorn magic to complete the ritual, and in your case I had to supplement with both light and dark magic, thus my need for the Heart of Harmony, and the Alicorn Amulet.”

Trixie looked back at her new wing with deep regret. “What do I do now?”

“For the moment you can go home and live a mostly normal life.”

Suddenly the thought of Twilight and Celestia seeing Trixie with an alicorn wing, learning of her relation to Red Velvet, and being infuriated with her came to mind. “No, I can’t let them see me like this. Please take the thing away!” Trixie begged.

“I can’t just-“

“TAKE IT AWAY NOW!” Trixie demanded.

Red Velvet closed her eyes and levitated a knife over to Trixie’s face before dropping it on the floor. In a cruel voice, Red Velvet said, “I can’t help you get rid of your wing, but if you are that intent on that course of action. Well, I’m sure that you can figure something out.” An evil grin spread across Red Velvet’s face.

Trixie looked at the knife in horror at the contemplation. After a long moment Red Velvet added, “You shouldn’t worry too much however, the wing will disappear soon enough.”

“Okay, that…” Trixie was still dumbfounded by the whole situation. “I don’t, I can’t even…”

Red Velvet smiled evilly at Trixie before saying, “We still have one more thing we need to do. But it should be much easier than what you just survived.”

“What is that?” Trixie asked, concerned.

“We need to grow you another wing.”

While looking back in horror, Trixie realized that she only had one wing. All that pain, all that horror, all of that was just for only a single wing. There was no way that Trixie would agree to a second wing, not when she had never agreed to the first one. Trixie opened her mouth to protest, but Red Velvet’s horn lit up like a burning inferno.

With a cracked, and dull looking amulet around Red Velvet’s neck, and the Wand of Harmony at her side she quickly struck Trixie with another red bolt of energy. It only took a moment, but Trixie’s world exploded in pain once again. Red Velvet had lied, it wasn’t any less painful the second time around, if anything it was worse.