Like A Sack of Dumb Puppies
“Concentrate, Sunset.” There it was again. That heavenly voice tempered with a thousand years of patience and wisdom.
I hated that voice with a burning passion. Not quite as hot as the sun itself because I hate irony, but still pretty hot.
“I’m trying,” I managed to say between gritted teeth. I kept my eyes closed, mostly to keep Celestia out of my view. My horn glowed in teal majesty, with a similar glow surrounding the potted plant just in front of me. Currently, it was nothing more than a sprout, but by the time I was through with it, it would be a beanstalk!
At least, that was the plan.
Something was wrong. I shouldn’t have been having trouble with something so easy. Accelerated growth was foal’s play. But my magic seemed… distant. Pushing it to its limit only seemed to give me a headache, which in turn made me even more frustrated, which made me pour even more magic into the spell, which made my head hurt…
Some might see this as a bad cycle. But I believe in, if at first you don’t succeed, try hitting it harder. That applies to magic as well.
“You can do this, Sunset, just focus your energy.”
Mind your business, you overbearing hag! It was a true fortune that I was gritting my teeth so hard, otherwise, I would have vocalized those thoughts. Of course I was focusing! What, did she think I was imitating somepony passing a kidney stone for fun?
I pushed my magic as far as it could go, but it still felt like it was only halfway to its…
Halfway.
“Celestia-dammit!” The pot exploded, sending shards of pottery and dirt flying all over the room. A dirt clod hit me right in the cheek and slid onto the floor. Contained in it was the sprout.
If it was any consolation, I had made it grow about… half an inch.
I looked up at Celestia, covered in dirt and small pieces of the brown pot. She sighed, an action that still managed to carry eternal grace and patience. What would it take to break her?
My eyes darted over to the window curtains. She probably wouldn’t act so graceful if she was suffocating.
The thought was driven from my mind when she used her magic to push the debris to the side of the room. She then looked at me, her loving eyes filled with motherly concern.
I wanted to gouge them out.
I’m extra violent today.
“Is something the matter, Sunset? That’s an intermediate level spell; you normally have no trouble with those.”
Her flowing mane, her long legs, her elegant wings, her spiraled horn. Princess Celestia was the picture of perfection. All of it was only complimented by her grace, wisdom, sincerity, and love. On a normal day, whenever I was mad at her, I felt bad about it shortly afterwards. She was the mother I had never known.
Now, without that wretched thing that called herself Shimmer, I only felt loathing and disdain. And I liked it.
Still, she was the Princess and my mentor. I had to mind her, otherwise I’d lose my standing. So, I swallowed my vulgarities and tried to smile at her. “No, Princess, I just… didn’t get much sleep last night.”
She smiled. “Another long night of studying?”
Oh, you have no idea. And if I have it my way, you never will. “You know me too well, Princess.”
Her smile never wavered as she stepped closer and draped a wing around me. I locked up at the physical contact, and had to forcefully restrain myself from sitting her on fire. In hindsight she’s probably flame retardant anyway.
“Sunset, you know I love your dedication to your studies—”
My eyes bulged and my ears begged me to rip them off. Dear moon above, here it comes again!
“—but you must understand there’s more to life than books and spells. Why not go out and spend some time in the city? Or, perhaps you could set up a tutoring service for your fellow peers? That way, you can keep to your studies and possibly make some new friends.”
This time, I couldn’t fight the annoyed growl rising in my throat. It escaped and practically sang its freedom. I knew there was no sense in playing it off, so I followed through and met Celestia’s concerned face with a deadpan glare.
“I don’t want to.” Short, simple, to the point.
“Why ever not, Sunset?”
Apparently, she isn’t as good at reading ponies as I thought. What, did my death glare not give a clear enough message that I hate anyone who isn’t me?
… Actually, that’s not even true anymore. I hate Shimmer… and she’s technically me. Barely. The point still stands though!
“Why should I waste my time helping others because they’re too dumb to understand basic lessons?” Out of all the responses in my head, that was the least malicious.
To my satisfaction, it broke the calm mask Celestia wore so tightly. I bit the inside of me cheek to stop myself from grinning as her eyes narrowed and her mouth formed a thin line.
“Sunset, I’m growing concerned with this arrogant attitude you’ve been displaying as of late. Not everypony is as gifted at magic as you.”
“I’m not seeing how that’s my problem. I appreciate the compliment though.” I liked this game.
Celestia withdrew her wing, to my immense satisfaction. “Sunset Shimmer, it’s time we had a talk about your behavior.”
Ooooh, she was using her ‘angry’ voice. It wasn’t really angry, it was more of ‘I’m so disappointed in you’. A day ago, I might have wilted under it, but again, I was just trying to keep myself from bursting out in laughter. Seeing Celestia’s look of displeasure sent a shiver of delight down my spine.
“What has gotten into lately, Sunset? This is not how I expect my personal student to act. Yes, your gift at magic is great, but you need to show more humility with your abilities.” Celestia took a pause and sighed. “I understand your desire for solitude, but I implore you to go out and make a few friends. Perhaps it would curb this sudden bout of rude behavior.”
Oh, the things I could have said in response. But I had probably poked the dragon enough today. Besides, I had more pressing matters I needed to attend to. That damnable replica had half of my magic! I needed to get it back before Celestia learned that a lack of sleep was not the reason my abilities were hindered.
So, I gave her a sad smile and nodded my head instead of launching into a tirade about how she needed to stop treating me like a foal and give me what I clearly deserved! “I’m sorry, Princess. Looking back, that was very rude of me. I guess it’s the lack of sleep. And maybe you’re right, maybe getting out of the castle would be good for me.”
Celestia gave me a critical eye. I wore my false sincerity quite well if I do say so myself. She finally relented and released some of the tension in her shoulders. “Well… why don’t you run along and take a nap. Afterwards, I insist you go out and spend some time with Cadence.”
I blanched. “What?”
“Sunset, you’ve been avoiding her ever since she came to the castle. It’s high time you acknowledged the fact that she’s going to be in your life for quite some time.” She sighed again. “I’m sorry I sprung her on you out of the blue, but she isn’t taking away anything you’re working for. Just go spend some time with her, get to know her.”
Once again, I failed to hide my grumble of displeasure. I could easily fake going down to the city and spending time with the commoners. But spending time with Cadence? Celestia was playing dirty now.
“Please, Sunset. For me.”
Ha! That wasn’t going to work. I took the bait, however, just to get out of this situation and get back to my room. I’d figure a way to weasel out of it later.
“Okay, Princess.” I stood to leave before she could ask me to donate a kidney or help feed the homeless. She didn’t say anything as I walked through the door, but I could feel her eyes on the back of my neck. If she knew I was lying, she didn’t say anything.
I carried myself down the halls, feeling an emptiness in my stomach. Perhaps some food would have been good for me. I shook my head. Translating magic first, food second.
Yes, I had my priorities straight, thank you very much!
Of course, I began to doubt whether or not I could pull off the reverse spell that would bring me and Shimmer back together with only half of my total magic. The diffusion spell had put me beyond my absolute limit. Likely, we would both have to cast the spell.
Down the last corridor to my room, the guard on duty gave a little wave and said, “Hello, Miss Sunset, how was your lesson?”
I stopped and turned my head, arching an eyebrow. “Excuse me, who gave you permission to speak?”
His conversational smile melted off his face. “W-well, technically speaking, no one, ma’am. But you—”
“But nothing!” I snapped. “Just stand there like the good wall decoration you are and keep quiet. Celestia doesn’t pay you to gab.”
He sighed, looking dejected and pitiful. “Yes, ma’am.”
Oh, how I loved to kick ponies into the dirt. It helps that I can’t remember his name. Polish Shield? Shine Sword? Eh, who cares?
I entered my room and shut the door behind me. “All right, Shimmer, here’s…”
The room was empty.
I sprinted over and stuck my head under the bed, then checked the closet, and was even desperate enough to look under the rug. Of course she wasn’t under the rug! I was just that desperate!
I stood in the middle of the room, eye twitching in fury. “I’m going to drown her,” I said softly. “I’m going to drown her like a sack of dumb puppies.”
Yes, I’m not above doing that!
It was actually a soothing thought, listening to them gurgle in the bag while they feebly struggled—my maniacal laughter just barely covering their last whines.
Yesterday, I might have sought professional help. Today, I was enjoying these morbid thoughts.
Two voices floated through my door, and I pressed myself against the wood to see who it was.
“Hi, Saber Shine!” a disgustingly chipper voice sang. So that’s his name. Like a good guard, he didn’t respond. “What’s the matter?”
“Ahem, you uh… told me not to speak, remember?”
“I… oh… uhhhh… I’m sorry, Saber, I was just hungry. You know how grouchy I am when I’m hungry.” The stupid clone gave an unconvincing laugh. “But, I just teleported to the kitchen and got some food, so I’m all good now!”
“Well, I’m happy to hear that, ma’am.”
“Just call me Sunset. Or Shimmer. Or Sunset Shimmer. But none of that ma’am, or, milady thing. I want us to be friends.”
“Heh, if you say so, ma—ahem, Sunset.”
“There you go!”
My mind continued to conjure up ways to kill her. Drowning was too good. So was anything that would be quick. Unfortunately, that took out the iron maiden as well.
The doorknob turned, and I quickly hid behind the frame to keep out of view. Shimmer walked in, and I slammed the door behind her.
“You had one, simple, job,” I hissed between my teeth. “Stay. Here. And you couldn’t even do that right.”
She flinched and turned around. “Umm… well…” She held out a muffin. “Hungry?”
I lunged at her.
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Pretty darn evil.
The adorabubbles are rising!
Dunno who Vesper Radiance is, but I think she's fairly evil, not the whole way, but still fairly evil.
If Vesper Radiance's evil is 10/10
This mad Sunset's evil is 4/10 ( and 7/10 hilarious here :D )
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Vesper Radiance is a character from this story's author's another story
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/92962/sunset-of-time
Just read it!
It's Good Jackie and Evil Jackie all over again! Or Good Kirk and Evil Kirk.
It's an old plot, but it's still fun.
This Sunset is a bitch, I like the other one though. Can we keep her?
On a scale from one to Vesper Radiance, I'd say 9.5 since everyone's gonna be confused as heck. I like the nice one better.
That depends on which Sunset you're talking about. The good Sunset Shimmer would obviously rate as high as Anakin Skywalker while he's turning to the dark side, as she can't do the one thing that she's been told to do correctly, and the evil Sunset Shimmer rates as high as Darth Maul, as she doesn't contain her emotions.
But why would you want to drown puppies?!
Considering I've not read that fic, nor do I particularly intend to, less evil and more a massive jerkass.
Thank you for another update! i'm really enjoying this story and am glad that it is not dead.
can we expect another tomorrow? (do you have an upload schedule and if so may i ask what it is?)
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I do beleive it was a reference to DBZ abridged's Frieza.
But anyway the answer to your question would be: an evul and cruel person with no love to give!
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I got the reference, that was what Goku asked Frieza after that particular quote.
6999191 Oh? Oh... Sorry! That episode is a bit far away in my memory.
But my answer stand.
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It's fine.
Wow, Sunset is almost at raging she-demon level already, huh? Interesting to see that even her slightly good traits have been split off so now she's just about all arrogance and anger. If Vesper is a 10, I'd rate this half of Sunset at about a... 6. Kind of crazy already, but at least without that much power considering she only has half her magic.
Maybe Shimmer's presence will help calm her down? Or at least the pain will slow her down once she makes contact with Shimmer. She'd better start translating fast before she really snaps. I'm not sure Shimmer will want to disappear though, considering how bad they were originally.
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Agreed
6999358 OMG dat plushie!
6999142 You can see how far I am in writing the chapter on my home page. There's no set schedule for this one, it's just spur of the moment/whenever I'm in the mood for funny things.
Drowning puppies is pretty high on the evil scale
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i know right ^-^
Definitely Vesper Radiance. Can we drown Sunset and keep Shimmer instead?
Great chapter
And yeah, Sunset is quite off the deep end
7007698 I want to read that now
Maaaaaybe she should study a book about 'Anger Management'.
Good chapter!
Poor guard. Now he is surely totally confused.
(Maybe he will now always carry an Snickers®, since he knows what happens if Sunset(?) is hungry.)
Will the next chapter be about the 'nice' Sunset (if she somehow survices the 'not-so-nice' Sunset)?
May had found an error:
Did you mean "setting"?
About... King Michael levels of evil? So, nowhere near evil enough to be interesting on her own, but absolutely fantastic when working of other people.
There is nowhere near enough main characters that are truly evil, and not just playing a role or misunderstood.
This sunset is great, never let her change for the better.
Is... evil Sunset coming on to herself? *ba dum tss*
As for the scale presented in the author's note...
I'd rate her as the Undertale player that only spared the Vulcans and nothing else.
Shimmy should really meet Pinkie at some point. Sadly this is extremely unlikely to happen.
How long before someone hears or notice the epic fight between good and evil that is surely going to happen?
Alright maybe not "epic" fight, more like Sunset shooting stuff at Shimmer while she blocks, counters or teleports away in a panic but still pretty much heavy in collateral damage to the room.
Wish I could answer to the "how much evil" question but I still have to read the story with Vesper Radiance. I'm just going to say "Not the puppies!" instead.
I'd say... Cruella de Vil meets Sauron evil. This is one F'd up pony you've come up with.
Who the heck is Vesper Radiance?
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Vesper Radiance is the villain of Albinocorns "Sunset of time" fanfic, which I can only advise you to read, because explaining how evil Vesper is would be a huge spoiler for said story
I'd say Celestia is probably fireproof for that but she already thought about that too. (PS. Setting)
? = you
Cadance (too many spell this wrong as her name, sorry)
Don't know what Vesper Radiance is, but a 8.2 on the Richter scale is certainly San Francisco 1906 level.
I almost burst into tears when you described d d dr dr drown downing p p p pu-ARHHHHHHH HUH HUH HUH UH HUH HUH HUH
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On a scale from one to Vesper Radiance, I think I'll have to go with Vesper Radiance, SHE'S THINKING ABOUT DROWNING PUPPIES FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!