The Darkness Within

by Assaltwaffle

The Begining of the End

Author's Note:

What I do is in general, short and to the point. So please enjoy this small, dark reading of a far darker side of the wonderful mare Twilight Sparkle.

Twilight seldom left the library anymore, with all she had yet to learn about Alicorn Magic, how could she leave? Spike leaving was a bitter event, but it would all be worth I when she fully grasps this strange and unknown power. It had helped her numerous times before, even going so far as saving the life of her friend Fluttershy, a feat that her normal magic was not able to accomplish. She could help with her newfound power, or she could destroy. The dark thoughts in the back of her mind grew larger and larger with each passing day, with every new power she gained. It wouldn't matter what she had to do, she would still be helping in the end. Both her good side and the corruption nursed that thought, as it allowed the darkness to drive itself deeper and deeper into the very fiber of her being. These book told her to use her magic to do terrible things, things that she would have never dreamed of before; to eliminate anypony in the way of her power, and of her rule. For the first time she heard something other than her own thoughts, a knock on the door. Angered by the interruption, Twilight approached the door with irritation, with a pre-determined contempt for whoever was behind the door. When she opened the door, light poured into the pitch black room, and it made her squint to see who lie before her. After the blinding glare faded, she could see it was Applejack, with Spike next to her.
"Twilight, little Spike here insisted that you are doing dark things in there, and that you aren't acting like yourself anymore", said AJ.

"I told Spike already, I am fine, and I am studying Alicorn magic. It saved Fluttershy and was able to change a potion we needed in order to help us save Equestria from Discord's old vines!" Twilight replied, annoyance in her voice. "Imagine the power I can gain, the spells I could do with its secrets..." something in the back of her mind made her say.
"This isn't good for you Twilight. You sound angry, and nothing good can come of the same magic that King Sombra used to enslave and curse an entire empire for one thousand years! And Sombra was just a normal Unicorn when it took hold of him, I can't imagine what I would do to an Alicorn Princess like you." replied AJ.
"Nothing good... NOTHING GOOD?! Plenty of good has already come of it from me! Sombra was weak, he let it take him, I am stronger, it is mine to command, not the other way around!" Twilight cried. Her eyes began to emit an eerie purple tendril; the purple tendril that Sombra also had.
"Twilight, this isn't you, and I will not lose you to this dark magic; I will not LET you continue doing this to yourself!" Applejack yelled back at her. At that moment the corruption made its move. It came in full force to her head, seizing control of her. Applejack was an obstacle, and an annoyance; all the Alicorn Magic books told her to eliminate these thing in order to achieve what you can truly be, for limitation will only hold you back; friends were merely a limitation to her now.

In a black rush the shadows engulfed her, tainting both body and mind. The vile magic took to her far greater than it ever did to Sombra, and her new power surged through her. Her body grew in size, growing to be on par with even the massive Princess Celestia, and her horn darkened into a red point. Her eyes began glow green and her pupils shot red as blood. The darkness had made its move, and the old Twilight began to be suppressed. She tried to cry out for help, but all she heard was her own, terrible laughter. She slammed her hooves into the ground, and a spire of dark crystal erupted from the ground, impaling Applejack through the chest. As her friend whimpered, stunned and dying, the evil looked up and relished in its first work; the old part of Twilight screamed as she impaled her friend, but all that escaped her mouth was a wicked laugh. Her old self was defeated, and began spiraling down into the darkness she had let herself be overtaken by, never to return.

As blood gushed from her old friend's open chest, she stood smirking at the first work her new power had granted her. She spread her newly enhanced wings for the horrified onlookers to see as she began to cast her next spell. The spell rolled across the sky in a dark wave, driving out the light from the land, making shadows and light become indistinguishable from another. She then realized something was touching her. She looked down see a sobbing Spike clawing at her leg.
"Let Twilight go you monster! Give me back my friend!" he was yelling at her.
She raised him up on her leg and said "Oh, my number one assistant, don't you worry, everything will be okay, you are going to a better place" Twilight replied. She then put him back down on the ground, smiling gently at him, the corruption receding from her eyes. It was only for a moment, as a second later it came rushing back, and she raised her leg and crushed him underhoof with a guttural crunch. The ground was now stained with the blood of two friends, and Twilight laughed terribly at the evil she had created. Spike's death launched another wave of screams from the horrified onlookers as two of her closest friends perished at her own hand. She found their panic and fleeing amusing, so she sent of dark magic out of her to snag a couple of the unlucky bystanders by the neck and draw them back to her. "Are you afraid? I do not like cowards, you know." Twilight asked the two frightened mares.
"No, I am not scared" squeaked one
. "Me either!" coughed the other.
"You should also know that I hate liars." Twilight said back to them with a smirk. They began to scream, which was cut off by a hard snap to the right. The lifeless victims fell to the ground, heads in a position not possible for anyone alive to have. "Such wonderful pain, I would love to bask in it longer, but I really do need to pay a visit to my lovely teach Celestia." she said with an evil grin across her face.