//------------------------------// // Six Of Swords: Travel (Twilight Sparkle) // Story: Draw // by TheVulpineHero1 //------------------------------// Six Of Swords: Travel Keyword: Travel. Movement away from danger. Discretion being the better part of valour! Travel in company, being with others in the same circumstances. Immediate problems will be solved. A positive direction to go in. Reversed: Delays and petty problems, partial success and an inability to see where you are going. A/N: Before we begin: be warned. This is the obligatory darkfic chapter, and it was written and formated specifically to screw with your head as much as possible. It is also possibly the worst chapter I'll ever do for this collection, simply because I don't really like darkfics, and this expresses that more than adequately. It was a mistake. Don't listen don't listen She hadn't meant it. No, that was a lie. She had meant it, with every proton of every atom. But she hadn't meant it like that. Azure spiral, round and round, one wrong move and the sky falls down She steals her sleep in snatches, and wakes in time to hear herself scream. She is so much more now, and so much less. Brown broken earth, blue broken wing, green silent forest with her red blood spilling Why hadn't she known? Why hadn't anyone told her that this was what she was? Orange the sundown, purple the bruise, and pink for the innocence you stood to lose A chance accident. Rainbow Dash was flying and then something, maybe a ligament, snapped. She spiralled out of control, a whirling spiral of colour, before crash landing in the nearby forest. Louder. Harder. More. Louder. Harder. More! They found her an hour later. Fluttershy fainted, and she screamed. The same scream she heard every night. You'll do anything, will you? How sure of that are you? Keep going. Harder. More. You have magic, don't you? What are you waiting for? The wind had howled. The water had stilled. The earth moved. And she screamed through it all, one wordless curse against everything. Magic. Magic. Magic. Magic. MAGic. MAGIC. Then, the world changed. The leaves tore from the trees, the weeds were plucked from the earth. Light filled everything, and shadows twisted like vines under the glare. Twilight. Where the sun meets the moon. Where darkness meets light. Where this world meets the next. You never knew it, did you? That this was your destiny. Whilst you were practising your silly little spells, you never imagined that this was what you were. Crescendo. And then, slowly, Rainbow Dash got up. She spat drops of red, tried to flap a broken wing. Fixed her with a broken smile, and said, “Why, Twilight? I was happy.” Run, you fool. Run. Don't you know what you've done? Don't you know what you were fashioned to do? This is not the time. Run. She stands on the cliff, and the wind pushes at her back as if to topple her. The earth crumbles below her hooves. She would have done anything. In the end, she did. Now she needs answers. How did she do what she did? What did she sell to do it, and who to? The questions haunt her. The power haunts her. The gate separating life from death. So much good that could be done, and so much evil too. Good and evil, light and darkness. Where they met, she would go. Equestria was far away. But not as far as Twilight had gone. A/N: Confused? Great. If you didn't like it, also great, because you really weren't supposed to. People say that my writing is confusing at the best of times- this is what happens when I'm actively trying to mess with you. Believe it or not, I have done worse. This is my dick move for the collection. Don't worry- I don't plan to repeat it.