//------------------------------// // Home // Story: Empress of flame (year one edition) // by Pathious //------------------------------// "Hello Sunset, it has been some time since i have seen your eyes." Twilight said as she calmly made her way towards Sunset. Shimmer could hardly think the closer Twilight got. She had no idea what was coming over her. Twilight had this sudden allure that Sunset had never seen before. "H-hello p-princess." Sunset said in a voice full of both confusion and purr. Celestia was immediately aware of what Sunset was feeling. Celestia had a change in expression now. There was actually a look of anger and evil in the eyes of the pearly white princess. She quickly rid her face of the expression as to not make the situation awkward. Luckily Twilight nor Sunset noticed her expression. "Despite our last experience it is such a pleasure to see you again. I hope that we can accomplish exactly what it is you wish to succeed here back in equestria. Though may i ask, why exactly did you return?" Twilight said as she shuffled her own wings in a manor that made Sunsets skin crawl. "T-thats a really long story P-princess." sunset said in a shy tone. " I think that story is best saved for a later time. Sunset was stopped in her sentence when she could have sworn she saw a familiar red mist move behind Twilight. She was going to say something but her mind wandered to what she had seen. Celestia seemed unaware of the object that was looming behind Twilight. The mist was forming strongly behind her, she was beginning to wonder if what she was seeing was a pigment of her mind or if it was real. She figured the object to be false because Celestia and Twilight were not reacting to it. The mist disappeared quickly once sunset could swear she saw a face inside of it. She shook her head and started listening to Twilight who she had zoned away from. "So Sunset if you would come with me so cans how you around, that would be wonderful." Twilight said as she shuffled her wings in a way that once again sent shivers down Sunsets spine. The wings not only made Twilight more attractive to Sunset but it also made sunset slightly envious of her. Twilight freely walked around with the wings of royalty that Sunset once desperately strive to have as well. "also don't worry i will make sure you meet my friends when the time is right. the last thing you need is a pinkie pie causing you a headache." she giggles. "she is such a loud and wonderful friend none the less." "Whatever you think is best P-princess." Sunset said as she continues to stutter from the looks she saw on Twilight. Sunset never knew she had attractions to mares because when she was in equestria in the beginning nothing mattered. All she cared about was studying. She never paid attention to other which never allowed her to feel. Twilight led her to many places her first day being in Equestria. She was finally able to head to the second place presented to her. The bed room of which she would be sleeping. The crystal Empire was a very beautiful place. Her room was very colorful, This made her feel very welcomed. The only thing Plaguing her mind now was the small fact that she feared if she closed her eyes the dreams would still await her. She crawled into bed none the less, her cyan eyes gazing up at the ceiling as she was trying to fall asleep. She didn't feel alone, she felt as if somepony else was looming in the room with her. This made Sunset very uncomfortable. She took a deep breath to try and ignore the feeling. Eventually she was drifting off into sleep. where a dream awaited her, on the other hand this dream was not exactly the same as the first one. The world around her was full of flame. Sunset looked around to try and see an exit to the flame that was surrounding her. All she could see was flame, nothing but fire everywhere she looked. As she walked to try and find some way out she found that the fire seemed to be moving with her. Almost as if the flame was attracted to her. She turned to her right to be face to face with another pony. This pony had the darkest of eyes. The whites were black and there were cyan halos for irises. susnet fell abckwards upon seeing this pony. The pony stepped out of the flame and spread a pair of really large wings. The wings were not feather they were ripped and torn demonic wings. Very bat like, yet they had a kind of beauty to them. "Hello, Sunset shimmer." The mares voice was very raspy and weak. The red colored mare was wearing a black dress and her mane seemed to be done and made up. I was in a amne style that was wet looking. She ahd the same colors in her mane as Sunset did. She ahd a green eyeliner on her eyes as if she was headed somewhere important. She ahd a kind of sarrow in her eyes. Sunset knew she was dreaming she had never seen a pony that looked this way. "Ummmmmmmm h-hello?" Sunset said in a stuttering voice. She kept looking at the fetures of this pony. She was a beautiful mare but she also looked very agressive. "It's been a very long time since we last met." The red pony exclaimed as she kept her darkened and sorrowful eyes on Sunset. "I should probably introduce myself. My name is Empress, Empress of flame. You may know me as the red mist from your nightmares." The flame around them was still burning. Surprisingly enough this dream seemed to be much calmer than the ones Sunset had been having before. "your the red mist, i could have sworn i saw you t-today?" sunset said as she now felt uneasy. She always sensed great evil from the mist in her dreams. "Yes i know you did, I'm getting closer Sunset. We are closer to getting what is ours. The power. The wings, The crown." upon saying the word crown the mares eyes had flashed in a bright opal color. A very familiar element of harmony had teleported ontop of her head. "We were so close lastt ime, you and me." Empress exclaimed as she flapped her demonice wings amkingher full and true form more relevant. The mane was now flickering in a candle shape as Empress stood there. Sunset recognized her now. She was looking at herself. This was the demonic form she had taken at the fall formal. She ahdn't recognized it as a pony. It had become apparent that her subconscious was still punishing her for her actions. "I want to wake up~!" sunset yelled out as she had become very frightened by empress. The world around her shifted and Empress was gone. Sunset was very frightened as she could hear distant screams. She looked to her right to see Equestria floating in the sky. Sunset felt weightless almost as if she was in space. She could tell the world was burning. The flame very visible as it practically engulfed the planet. Sunset tried to get to it but was cut off when she saw the human form of the Demonic form reach out and grab the planet like an apple. "hmmmmmm, this apple seems rotten." She rubbed a finger across the surface of the planet causing a fiery crack to appear on its surface. Empress pressed the planet to her lip her fangs sinking in and taking a bite. The molten core leaked out onto he demons lips and down its throat. she swallowed the bite and tossed it aside. "Like i said nothing but a rotten apple." She began to laugh demoniacally. The laugh echoing everywhere to the point that. Sunset sat up in her bed nearly screaming as she felt she was on fire again. The moment she sat up a wave of dark magic came from her body. Red crystalline structures about an inch long each grew all over the walls of her room as a result. She was breathing very heavily. Her eyes were glowing a very bright cyan as the whites of her eyes were now a very dark shade of jade. She let out a scream that had the sound of not one voice but two. Fang began to grow in her mouth as she yelled out for help. She felt as if something was trying to break through her. Twilight and Celestia were outside the room trying to get in but the door was locked. "sunset whats going on, hello~!?" Twilight yelled out trying to get the door open. Her horn began to glow but it quickly sputtered out useless as she saw the red crystals lining the surface of the door. These entities were preventing her from using her magic. Celestia had seen this kind of magic once before so she knew the way around it. Celestia used her much more powerful magic to clear the door of the magical crystal. She nearly collapsed from exhaustion using this spell. Twilight did not notice this and instead broke through the door to help Sunset who was now crying on her bed. All remembrance of fangs and differentiated eyes were gone. The crystalline structures on the walls had vanished along with those features.