//------------------------------// // Flashing lights // Story: Empress of Flame 4: The burning truth // by Pathious //------------------------------// The situation had literally taken a turn for the worst. How was Sunset supposed to prevent what Daydream gave her a chance to fix if she was stuck here in this damn world? Sunset was walking the streets with Flash now. She was about to meet his parents, Again. She was filled with nothing but sadness. Twilight and Celestia had absolutely no way of contacting her now. The portal was going to blow in way less than three years, maybe a week if that. Sunset didn’t want to tell flash that his world and hers were doomed because she decided to walk through a portal with something evil inside her. Sunset knew she would have to tell him eventually. Leaving him in the dark felt so wrong. Both of their worlds were going to die now. All because she felt she had to see how the portal was on the other end. Clearly it was much worse than in Equestria. She now knew what Empress had done. She had planned this. She broke the life of the portal, she caused it to close. They eventually reached the house. Flash had his car pulled in the drive way. “Sunset, I haven’t told them what you did at school. So don’t worry. No evil glares here.” Flash smiled. “Then again I would be in a nut house if I told my parents that my ex turned into a she demon.” He chuckled. “Knowing my dad he would tell me that all girls do it monthly.” Flash opened the door and let her enter first. “Mom Dad I am home~!” He hollered as sunset hung up her leather coat. All she had on now were her pants and silky blue dress. Sunset gave a long soft sigh as Flash’s mother entered the room. “I see you brought company... Heeeellllo Sunset., Marvelous to see you again.” The mother smiled at her. “Really wish my son hadn’t dumped you.” “Mom now really isn’t the time to discuss that.” Flash smiled as he tossed his jacket on the hanger. Sunset didn’t say anything yet. She was nervous as it was already. Talking to them again after what she knew just seemed wrong as well. “Sorry just she’s such a pretty girl.” The mother teased. “You both look hungry. Please come eat.” She smiled at her son and Sunset. “I would love a bite to eat.” Sunset smiled as she was now very polite. Flash had never seen her polite so his jaw dropped slightly. He used his right hand to close his mouth. “After all I don’t believe I ever got a taste of your mothers cooking.” Sunset also felt very sticky. “Miss Sentry you wouldn’t mind if I used your shower after I eat... W-would you?” “Go right ahead I would have no problem with that.” She responded to sunset. Sunset did exactly that. After eating she headed for the bathroom. She got undressed and slowly slipped into the shower. The water was running down her amber curves. Her colorful hair soaked in the warm water. The ends of her hair had droplets of water dripping from them. Her cyan eyes looked over at the counter nearby. That was when she saw an orange lily in a glass vase. Her eyes turned a different shade of color as the name Tiger lily played in her head. Sunset could barely remember who exactly that pony was but the name hurt her deeply. Sunset nearly fell over and passed out as she got on her knees. The water now drizzling on her back, the water followed the crease of her body. She felt as tears were swelling in her eyes. She looked over at the mirror as she slowly stood up. She saw her reflection. Empress was holding her shoulder in her reflection. She quickly glanced over away from the mirror to see it was only in her reflection. She looked back to see a girl now standing where Empress once was. This girl had Empresses wings and eyes. She had blood on her and she appeared to be bitten by a big canine. The girl leaned her head and put her lips to Sunset’s ear. “You did this to me.” She said. Sunset felt dizzy as the word now made her whole body feel like it was on fire. Sunset felt like something was moving inside her stomach. She gags and then looked back in the mirror to see the shower head had black liquid coming from it. Her mouth also had black liquid coming from it. She let out a scream and the images in her head were not really there. Sunset slowly crawled out of the shower. She lifted her hand to see the water turning to steam. Her hand disfigured and looking much like the devils hand. Empress was trying so very hard to take over young sunset. A red stripe appeared around her eyes and the hand reverted back to normal. As it did the red stripe also disappeared. Sunset curled up onto the floor. Flash came into the bathroom as he had finally came to her scream. “Sunset, are you alright?” He grabbed a towel and wrapped it around her as he picked her up. He slowly carried her out of the bathroom. “I slipped.” Sunset lied as she shivered. “That was one hell of a scream for just falling.” He said as he put her on the nearest bed. “Stay here let me go get you clothes from the bathroom.” Flash slowly left to go get them. Sunset looked at the mirror on the wall not far from her. Empress was thankfully not in the reflection this time. Sunset couldn’t stop thinking about what that girl had said to her. How was she the cause of those wounds? She felt that she should know, yet her mind wouldn’t let her backtrack far enough. Sunset stood up with the towel still clinging tightly to her wet body. Her hair clinging to her shoulders for she had not gotten the chance to dry off. Sunset placed an amber hand upon the smooth and cold glass of the mirror. A wave of energy went through the glass and the refection changed to a window into Equestria. She saw a short glimpse of what appeared to be Celestia and Twilight pacing worriedly. As she reached out the window and vision disappeared. “No wait…” sunset said as she nearly fell over again. She caught her balance and saw that the mirror was nothing but a regular mirror now. Sunset felt happy there for a moment. She sighed closing her eyes. She opened them again and saw she had the red strip around her eyes again. She looked closer and saw a very faint vision of Daydream sitting by her. This put a smile on her face. The smile faded when she saw blackness consume her and Daydream was gone. Sunset began to ponder. In the future how did she bring Daydream to existence? “I’m back Sunset.” Flash said as he came into the room. He held out her clothes to her. “They are a little damp I really hope you don’t mind.” Sunset didn’t mind for she quickly took her clothes. She stood there for a moment. “You want to at least t-turn a-around?” sunset said as she blushed lightly at him. “Oh right s-sorry.” Flash said as he turned and looked away from her. Sunset felt as if something inside her was crushing on him. She loved twilight. So why was she feeling this way. Was it a real feeling? Either way Sunset slipped her clothes on, then she made sure they were not to damn. Otherwise the clothes would still expose her a little too much. Of course luck was against her and they were a little to damp. Sunset crossed her arms so she wasn’t exposed, though her belly was clearly visible through her wet clothes. “you can look now… I’m dressed.” Sunset said in a very soft voice. Flash turned but tried to keep the straightest face he could. His mom was right. Sunset was one hell of a girl. Flash knew he was stupid to leave her but he couldn’t stay with such a bully. The thing that made things worse was that she wasn’t much of a bully now. Sunset blushed as her eyes shimmered slightly in the dimly lit room. Sunset felt a purr coming from her throat. The whites of her eyes went black as she soon found her lips locked with his. As she had tackled him to the floor the lights for some reason turned off making it hard for either of them to see. Sunsets ears changed to empress’s ears but they were not the color of empress. Sunset found herself in a tussle she didn’t even know how she was getting into. Flash was holding her rather slim sides as they were kissing each other. Sunset felt a pressure coming from her back. She stood the both of them up and pinned him to the wall as Empresses wings formed on her back. They were really large but thankfully it was dark. The last thing Sunset wanted was him to notice anything happening to her. She folded the wings in an attempt to conceal them. Flash was about to tongue kiss her but her fang grew at that moment and he cut his tongue. Flash pulled away quickly.. “Shit I cut myself.” He held his mouth and slowly went for the light. Sunset felt the entire empress like statures disappearing. Once the light was on there wasn’t a bit of empress visible. “h-how did you manage that?” sunset tried to remain calm after the amount of heat she was just feeling. Deep down she wished those fangs hadn’t gotten in the way. Sunset stood in the middle of the room as Flash went to go see how bad his cut was. Shimmer hadn’t felt that kind of sexual tension in a very long time. She was confused as to where that had even come from. She made her way to the bed and laid down. She was so overwhelmed with energy right now. Flash came back in his shirt was somehow off because of all this. “Yeah I cut my tongue pretty good.” He said as he sat on the bed she was laying on. He looked as confused as Sunset felt. “I think it is time to go to bed. We all have a really long day tomorrow, trying to get the portal problem solved.” Flash laid back and it did not take long for him to fall asleep. Sunset was trying hard to keep herself from sleeping. Afraid of Empress coming to her in her dreams, Sunset failed to do so and she drifted into sleep. She opened her eyes to be surrounded by a familiar darkness. Sunset closed her eyes already wanting to wake up. She opened her eyes and saw a field of flowers now. Sunset was even more confused. She looked around. She didn’t recognize this place. If this was empress why was she showing her such a lovely place? Sunset began to walk as she could feel the grass on her feet. She took a deep breath and the smell she received was so beautiful. She continued walking till she began to here a male and a female voice. Sunset looked around trying to pinpoint where the voices were coming from. She looked to her right where the noise seemed to be coming from. “Hello?” Sunset said as she was so confused now. What the hell was going on here? Sunset slowly followed the voices. She followed the voices and when she reached the source she saw Celestia kissing the grey lips of a unicorn with a curved horn. The ponies appeared to be madly in love. The lovely image burnt up in flames disappearing as a loud echoing cry of a baby was heard. Sunset sat up in the bed as she was sweating profusely.