As Twilight Sparkle walks home, she encounters Kyubey, who wants to make a contract with her.
When Kyubey asks Twilight Sparkle to make a contract with him, Twilight gets the surprise of her life! After watching her friend die and dealing with a near death experience herself, Twilight Sparkle must face the challenges and ordeals of being a Puella Magi. How will she be able to cope with the changes in her life? Will she be able to cope at all? (This is one of my first fanfics, so constructive criticisim is needed)
Twilight Sparkle was walking home from Sugarcube Corner late one night. She and Pinkie Pie had been making some cakes, looking back, it was the last normal thing she could remember doing, before her life was turned upside down. Pinkie had just gotten a special bracelet, which was respectively, pink. The Party Pony shooed Twilight away as soon as it started to glow, and said she had things to do and people to see.
She walked the same way Twilight did at first, but then walked off saying, “I gotta find it!”
--
Night in Ponyville usually felt dangerous, with most ponies running inside at dusk, but this night had an eerie feel to it, as if there was a malevolent force wandering through the shadows.
SNAP! CRACK!
Twilight heard the sounds of an animal, and out the corner of her eye, she could see a white catlike thing following her. Twilight didn’t pay any attention to the creature.
“It’s probably just Opalescence,” she muttered.
She continued to walk the streets home, staying in the light of the lampposts. She felt she was being followed. And then, a high pitched voice called out “Twilight Sparkle!”
Twilight knew that her fears were irrational. “ I’m just being a scaredy-pony, and I just need to get home… yeah…” she whispered. She eventually got home, and was about to open the door, when suddenly, everything began to change.
--
The world became varying shades of grey, and seemed to look like a primitive, old timey cartoon or a graphite drawing. it wavered around, and appeared yo be drawn in a school textbook or something. Even scarier, Twilight had become like the buildings around her, Black and White, with textbook lines running through her body.
Twilight started to freak out. Small stickmen appeared out of cracks and they grabbed hold of her hooves, making it impossible to move. Twilight’s heart raced.
She needed to run, and get away! She couldn’t move, no matter how hard she tried. She started to cry. “Please help me!” she tearfully called out. Nobody heard her, which made her cry.
Please, be a bad dream. Please be a bad dream. Wake up, wake up WAKE UP!
She zapped the stickmen with her magic; they let go, confused for a second, but the magic did no harm. She raced off, Trying to find a way out of this place.
More and More stickmen were following her. She ran, dodging huge, falling pencils, and odd black and white zalgo ponies.
The cartoon ponies all had a cutie mark on their necks, rather than on their flanks. It was a pencil inside a triangle.
The ponies charged at Twilight, holding huge pencils, like they were swords. Twilight ran away, and was standing next to Sugarcube Corner, and couldn’t believe it. She saw another pony in the distance, a familiar looking pony at that.
--
It was Pinkie Pie, who was wearing a dress, covered in cupcakes.
Twilight ran closer, trying to save her friend. Pinkie twirled, causing multiple daggers to rise from the ground.
She hurled the daggers at a huge figure, which appeared to be the giant doodle of a pony, black and white, with the lines of textbook pages running through its body. It's cutie mark was the same as the marks on the zalgo ponies' necks.
It threw several razor-sharp pencils, which Pinkie had narrowly missed. Pinkie then stood up and summoned a giant dagger, and she threw it at the being.
It missed, and then, Twilight noticed a giant pencil, about to collide with Pinkie’s stomach. “PINKIE PIE! LOOK OUT!” Yelled Twilight without thinking.
Pinkie noticed a moment too late, as the pencil dug into Pinkie’s body, impaling her and causing her blood to splash out of her body, and all over Twilight’s face. Pinkie’s intestines lay on the ground, and Pinkie Pie was barely alive. She gazed in shock, as the creature delivered the final blow.
The Doodle Pony smashed Pinkie Pie’s skull with its giant hoof. Twilight ran, Faster and faster, until she was at her own house. She tried to get inside; even though she knew deep down that it was impossible.
And then, the Doodle Pony was standing right in front of her. Twilight didn’t know what else to do, so she shot magic beams at the giant monster. It had absolutely no effect. Then, the purple unicorn was impaled with a pencil.
--
Twilight curled into a fetal position, awaiting the final blow. This is the end, Thought Twilight. I’m going to die now, and there is nothing I can do to stop it! Twilight called out for help one last time, as loud she could. “HELP ME! PLEASE!” she yelled, “PLEASE!” her calls were not being herd, and her screams were dissolving into tears. “Please, help me… Please…” Twilight watched as her blood mixed with her tears.
“Goodbye, world…” she whispered as the huge pony’s hoof smashed into her skull. Then the only thing that Twilight Sparkle could see was the blackness.
--
I’m dead. No more, gone forever. How is it possible that I can think? “Twilight, wake up.” How can I hear Spike’s voice? I must be a ghost. There is no way I could have survived a giant stepping on my head. “Oh sweet Celestia! What happened?” “Twilight!” “She hit her head on something on her way back from Sugarcube Corner. Curiously, it seems that Pinkie Pie has gone missing. Perhaps the fillies have run into some sick freak,” Said a male voice. “So they were in the wrong place at the wrong time,” said Rainbow Dash. I’m in a coma? How can I hear them? I want to wake up! The clutches of sleep were too strong for Twilight to escape from, so the words of those around her started quieting, until Twilight fell asleep again.
--
She was again in the black- and- white cartoon Ponyville, only instead of seeing the stickmen, the zalgo ponies and the doodle pony, she saw Pinkie Pie’s corpse, still impaled with a crushed skull, in a pool of its own blood, and a freaky catlike animal. “Hello there, Twilight Sparkle, my name is Kyubey!” said the animal; only, it never moved its mouth. “H-hello Kyubey. Why am I here! I’m scared! I got attacked by some, some THING! It stomped on my head! How am I alive?” cried Twilight. “The witch never stomped on your head. Another Puella Magi saved your life, and you blacked out from the pain and blood loss. You will die, if you don’t want to agree to my favour. They will turn your life support off,” Said Kyubey, solemnly. “I want you to make a contract with me, and become a Puella Magi!” “WHAT! What is a Puella Magi! I want to know what I’m signing up for before I make a deal with a weird looking animal!” snapped Twilight, staring at Pinkie Pie’s body. “I will grant you one wish, any wish you desire! You must fight witches to pay for this deal, and death is a part of it, but Twilight, you will die, even if you refuse my offer.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the hospital room, Twilight's closet friends were standing by her bed. The sterile room smelled like antiseptic, and appeared bleach white. Twilight's brow was drenched in sweat, her once vibrant purple pelt was now matted and dull.
"Twilight Sparkle has a very small chance of living. There is no easy way to say this, but, we have to cut off Twilight Sparkle's life support." Said the doctor solemnly. There were tears, as Princess Celestia stroked Twilight Sparkle's face. It was hard saying goodbye to her faithful student. In fact, Celestia conidered Twilight more as a daughter than a student. One tear rolled down the white alicorn princess' cheek, as it fell and landed on Twilight's forehead.
And at the stroke of midnight, Twilight Sparkle's life support was cut. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A bell tolled in the distance, twelve times. “Your life support has been cut off, Twilight Sparkle. Will you accept my offer, or will you die?”
Twilight Sparkle couldn’t believe it! Her death was inevitable now? Make the wish, and live slightly longer, but risk your life fighting witches. Don’t, and die now, without having to fight! The offer to wish was harder to resist. “I wish to live!” cried Twilight, awaiting Kyubey’s response. The armlike parts of Kyubey’s ears lifted and plunged into Twilight’s chest. It felt like Kyubey was quite literally ripping something out of Twilight Sparkle’s body. She cried out, and started to faint. “There, accepted,” Said Kyubey as he gave Twilight her Soul Gem. “This is your destiny.” Twilight grasped the Soul Gem, and felt a little weary. Suddenly, she awoke in a hospital room. -- “TWILIGHT!” yelled everyone joyfully. There was cheering, brohoofing, and Princess Celestia looked absolutely relieved. The Princess, Twilight’s mentor began to speak in the soft tone of a worried mother. “You were in a coma, and had been impaled, Twilight. Be thankful that none of your internal organs were badly harmed. We thought you were going to die, regardless, so we turned off your life support. How in Ponyville were you able to pull through?”
“I-I dunno…” Lied Twilight. She was still shocked to think properly. She lifted her left arm, and noticed a purple bracelet wrapped around it. It’s my Soul Gem.
“Oh, Celestia!” gasped Rainbow Dash, looking simultaneously ill and concerned. “I need to speak to Twilight. Alone” she snapped.
Everypony cleared out, until it was just them. Before Twilight could speak, Rainbow Dash lifted her right hoof. A glowing blue bracelet was on her hoof, which Dash turned into a Soul Gem. “I know you made a contract. Even in your subconscious, you became a Puella Magi. I will train you, so you don’t die in battle. Can you stand?”
What a stupid question! I’ve been impaled with a fucking pencil, Dash. What do you think?
Despite the fact that she shouldn’t have lived, let alone been able to stand, she managed to do everything without pain. She tested this by running, jumping and dancing. She walked out of the hospital with Dash, but the doctors wanted to preform tests on her.
“Don’t go, Miss Sparkle!”
“We need to study your fast healing skills!”
“Come back, Twilight Sparkle!” -- “So, Twi. We need to teach you about basic witch hunting. You have to search Ponyville by foot, to find a witch. You should check places ponies go to commit suicide, areas where gangs hand out and where fights break out. You know that sort of thing. Sometimes, witches stay in places where the people are already too weak to protect themselves, such as old folk’s homes and hospitals.”
Twilight and Dash’s bracelets lit up simultaneously. “There is a witch close by,” muttered Rainbow Dash.
The pair raced off to discover a mare that had hung herself behind a school. Bon Bon. “Fuck. We’re too late.” Growled Dash in frustration.
On Bon Bon’s neck, there was an odd marking. It was like the great and powerful Trixie’s Cutie Mark inside a star.
“God fucking dammit! Trixie deteriorated!” Snapped Rainbow Dash again. “See this mark on Bon Bon’s neck? This is a witch’s kiss. It causes ponies to commit suicide or murder for no reason. Well, let’s go look for this witch!”
The same sign that appeared on Bon Bon’s neck was on a school wall a few feet away. Dash changed to her Puella Magi form, which was a rainbow Wonderbolt uniform with a blue skirt. Her Soul Gem appeared to be a blue teardrop on her flank.
“Well, Twi. What are you waiting for? Change. Just focus all your concentration into reaching a stronger form.
Twilight did just that, and then she wore clothes Twilight’s Puella Magi form looked similar to a catholic schoolgirl’s uniform. She wore a white vest, a purple necktie and a short, purple pleated skirt. She had a huge purple bow in her hair. Her Soul Gem took the form of a purple hairclip that looked like her cutie mark. She was ready to enter the labyrinth!
--
The labyrinth was odd and scary. There was black smoke on the floor, that smelt like burning tyres, broken mirrors everywhere, in several different colours, and on the top of each mirror was an odd word. It looked like it was in German, or some other European language.
“Dash, what does that say?” asked Twilight, her curiosity was piqued. “It’s written in runes, a language witches and their familiars use. I picked up what a few runes say. It kinda looks like it says ‘Hilda,’” Replied Dash.
So, I’m fighting a witch named Hilda. What a stupid name.
Dash and Twilight wandered around for a while, until they encountered a minion. It was a wizard’s hat, with magic wands for limbs. Dash beat the shit out of it with a baseball bat.
“I wonder what my weapon is?” said Twilight. “Use your bow and focus on getting it to appear,” giggled Dash.
Twilight Sparkle pulled the bow from her hair, fluttered it, and then a machine gun fell into her hand.
“Niiiiiice,” smiled Rainbow Dash. They walked through a door, and entered a stage, which appeared to contain a magic show. The Minions stood on top of each other, and pulled the witch, Hilda, out of a blood red top hat.
“This is your time to shine, Twi! Give it all you’ve got! I’ll save you if you start to fuck up, ‘kay!” Yelled Dash excitedly. --- A curtain opened, and the fight began. Hilda appeared to be a rabbit, with huge, bloodstained claws and sharp teeth. Twilight shot manically, and began to attack.
Regenerating gun after gun, she fought hard. Hilda fought back, hitting her with spells that would leave her paralysed for a few moments. Twilight then used her bow on a machine gun that had already been generated, making it huge. One shot with this mega machine gun, and black blood spewed from Hilda’s body. It, and the labyrinth disappeared, as Twilight and Dash reverted back to wearing no clothes, and the only thing that now confirmed that Trixie ever died was a Grief Seed. -- Twilight picked up the grief seed, and made her Soul Gem into an egg form. It was a lot duller than it was before battling Hilda. “Twilight Sparkle, words cannot express how fuckin’ awesome you were in that battle! I mean it. Now, that black thing in your hand there is a Grief Seed. It restores the magic you lost in battle, and cleans your Soul Gem. Handy, right!”
Twilight used the Grief Seed to fix her Soul Gem, and then walked back home, while Rainbow Dash continued talking about how cool she looked in battle. Now, Twilight’s life would never, ever be the same again.
Part Three- I Would Never Wish This on Somebody With a Choice
The next day, Twilight woke up with Rainbow Dash standing over her bed. “Hey, Twilight! We have a big day, fighting witches and whatnot, so wake the fuck up, and let’s go!”
Twilight ate an apple and some hay, before she walked off and followed Dash outside. After walking for about an hour, Their Soul Gems lit up. After following the energy, they found a familiar, which looked like a golden fish, with sharp claws.
“Screw it,” muttered Dash, walking off.
“WHAT! Why aren’t we killing it!” snapped Twilight, pissed off.
“Because it’s a familiar, dumbass. It ain’t gonna have any grief seeds on it.”
“SO? WHAT ABOUT THE PONIES IT’S GONNA KILL!”
“It’s gotta kill four, maybe five before it becomes a witch. Then when you kill it, you get a grief seed. Seriously, you don’t want to run out of power and deteriorate, do you?” Replied Dash, sounding more than a little infuriated.
The familiar got away. Twilight couldn’t let it kill anypony! What if it came after Spike, or even worse, my crush?
“Get back here Twilight! It’s pointless killing a familiar! Are you even listening? Get back here!”
Twilight wasn’t listening, not the slightest bit. She ended up arriving at the familiar’s labyrinth, and changed into Puella Magi mode.
Running through the labyrinth, Twilight got more and more scared for another pony’s life. After running in circles for a while, she heard a long, drawn out scream. Twilight, rushing towards the noise. When she finally reached the familiar, she discovered that the fishlike creature had been attacking a pony. No, not her. Anyone but her… -- It was attacking Octavia. Octavia was horribly scratched and bitten, and barely standing in a pool of her own blood. Her mane was matted and dull, and she wore a pained expression. Her eyes lit up the second she saw Twilight.
“T-Twilight… w-what’s happening…? Where… am I? P-please save me…” Groaned Octavia.
“NO! GET AWAY FROM HER!” Screamed Twilight, charging at the familiar in rage, and firing her gun like a madman. After several shots, a faithful headshot finally destroyed the familiar.
“Thank Celestia you came to my rescue! I was so scared! What was that thing? What are you?” Gasped Octavia.
“Shh, Shh. Save your strength… Please come with me, Octavia,” whispered Twilight.
The purple unicorn dragged Octavia to Nurse Redheart. “W-what happened to Octavia!?” Gasped Nurse Redheart, staring at the brown earth-pony’s horrible gaping wounds. “I found her in the everfree forest,” lied Twilight. What else could she say? She’d get hauled to the nuthouse if she mentioned anything from her Puella Magi world. “Timberwolves must have attacked her.”
Octavia had been strapped to a gurney, and rushed off to an available hospital ward. Twilight sat in the waiting room for hours, even passing out a few times. “Twilight, wake up!” Snapped Rainbow Dash, pissed off. Twilight rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, confused.
“Rainbow Dash? What brings you here?” Asked Twilight, slowly opening her eyes to see Dash glaring at her.
“Nothin’ much, just stopped by today to tell you, that while you were busy fooling around saving Octavia, I almost DIED in a WITCH’S BARRIER!” She screamed, adding enough ice to her words to freeze a phoenix solid. “You know, I really needed your help, but instead, you go off and save that prissy little Canterlot pony, Octavia.”
“I couldn’t just let her die! I would never forgive myself if I did,” Sobbed Twilight. “I’m sorry. It’s just; I kinda have a crush on her.”
“Wouldn’t have guessed… I don’t care if you like her, you shouldn’t have abandoned me like that. I really needed your help, but you weren’t there! You were asleep, and I fought a witch right outside of this very hospital!” Sighed Dash. “Also, Nurse Redheart said that Octavia would like to see you tomorrow. I guess she is the first grateful person who has been saved from a witch, or at least a familliar.”
Twilight and Dash walked home, and Twilight sat in her room, excited about tomorrow. --
The next day, Twilight raced to the pony hospital, and asked Nurse Redheart if she could see Octavia.
“Of course, Twilight Sparkle. Right this way, please.” Twilight followed the nurse to Octavia’s ward, where Octavia was sitting there, bawling. What was going on? “It appears that the timber wolf snapped Octavia’s back legs. She will never walk again, and she’s glad that you showed up.” Replied Nurse Redheart tentatively. She walked off, leaving Twilight and Octavia together, alone. Well, almost. Kyubey was sitting on Octavia’s bed.
“First, I must thank you for saving me from that familiar.” Smiled Octavia, looking at Twilight lovingly.
“Did you…” Asked Twilight, feeling as sick and worried as Rainbow Dash looked the day she woke up.
“No, not yet. You’re a Puella Magi, aren’t you?” Asked Octavia.
“Yes… I must fight witches. And there is a huge possibility that I could die. Don’t considerer becoming a Puella Magi; it’s not worth it…” Sighed Twilight, looking at Octavia.
“Why do you care? It’s not like anyone would care if I died,” Muttered Octavia, bitterly. “Nobody gave a flying fuck about me. I bet you wouldn’t show up, if I didn’t want to thank you.”
“That’s not true at all, Octavia! I came to confess my feelings!” yelled Twilight. Her tears were clouding her vision. “I-I think I’m in love with you!”
Twilight then moved closer to Octavia, kissing her passionately, for what seemed like ages, until she pulled away. “You really care about me? I-I’m touched! I love you too!” Cried Octavia. “I’m sorry, Twilight. Kyubey! I wish to be able to walk again!”
“NO!” Screamed Twilight. Her tears were stinging her eyes. Kyubey stretched the armlike parts of his ears, ripping something fuchsia out of Octavia’s chest, creating a Soul Gem. “There, Accepted. You are now a Puella Magi, Octavia,” said Kyubey telepathically.
No… Not this….
Twilight grabbed Octavia’s newly made Soul Gem, and hurled it out the window. It landed in a pile of hay, and fortunately, didn’t break. But Octavia felt weak, and fainted. Twilight felt for a pulse, but there was no heartbeat. Was Octavia dead?
“TWILIGHT! What is wrong with you!” Snapped Kyubey, harshly. “What happened to Octavia!?” Screamed Twilight. “You threw her out the window. There is a reason why they are called Soul Gems!”
I threw her soul away! How is that possible? Thought Twilight, staring at her Soul Gem bracelet with repulsion.
Twilight stared in horror at Kyubey. “What? You didn’t really think I would let you fight witches in those shoddy pony bodies, did you?” asked Kyubey.
Twilight just stared at this, this CREATURE. It was disturbing how it couldn’t care less that it turned a once normal pony to a zombie! Kyubey sighed. “You ponies don’t understand the perils of combat. By separating your body from your soul, you feel less pain, and don’t have to worry too much about severe wounds. If all your bones are broken, or you bleed out every drop of blood, you can just heal your body with magic!”
“I don’t care, you killed us! You practically turned us into zombies.”
“I never killed your body, all I did is extract your soul, and put it into a compact vessel,” Said Kyubey, attempting to reason with the distraught pony. “That’s why you carry your Soul Gem around with you.”
Twilight ran down several flights of stairs, and found Octavia’s newly formed Soul Gem. After returning it to her, Octavia woke up, confused.
“What happened?” Asked Octavia.
Twilight was holding back a sob. -------------- A few weeks passed. Under Rainbow Dash’s orders, Twilight refused to kill familiars. Kill witches, get Grief Seeds. It doesn’t matter if anypony dies; I already lost the only person I would die for.
After Twilight had obtained her fourth grief seed, she noticed Dash looking weary.
“Are you ok, Dash?” Called Twilight.
Before Rainbow Dash could answer, Octavia staggered towards Twilight with Kyubey on her shoulder. Octavia’s soul gem pitch black.
“You gotta help me! My soul gem is so dark, and I can barely stand!” Screamed Octavia. Twilight, without hesitation cleansed Octavia’s Soul Gem..
Twilight couldn’t help but notice Rainbow Dash glaring at her.
“Oh, Thank You, Twilight! I have only fought familiars,” said Octavia.
“Why haven’t you fought any witches?” Asked Twilight, looking at the pony she loved.
“Because… I’m scared… I usually wait for you to kill them, but I don’t want to, anymore. I want to fight by your side, Twilight!”
Twilight looked at her, not sure how to feel.
“Kyubey told me that if a Puella Magi died in a barrier, they would always be considered a missing pony. I don’t wanna die, knowing you’d never find out what happened to me!” screamed Octavia, with tears spilling from her eyes.
“Of course! First thing tomorrow, we can go on a witch hunt!” cried Twilight. If she could protect Octavia, than she wouldn’t feel as guilty for letting Octavia make a contract. ------ Octavia arrived at Twilight’s house with Kyubey sitting on her shoulder.
“You brought that creature?” Asked Twilight, glaring at the catlike, soul-stealing monster lazing around on her lover’s shoulder. “Yes. Kyubey has been quite helpful, even helping me fight and to regenerate my weapons,” Replied Octavia. “Why don’t you like him? It’s not his fault that I’m a Puella Magi.”
But it is his fault that we haven’t got souls anymore…
After a long, hot, make-out session, Octavia and Twilight went exploring Ponyville, and couldn’t even find one witch! Even eerier, they couldn’t even find a familliar.
“Let’s explore the Everfree forest! There might be a witch there!” Exclaimed Octavia gleefully, grabbing Twilight’s hoof.
“Wait! You shouldn’t step one hoof out of Ponyville! It’s very dangerous, out there in the forest!” Screamed Twilight.
Octavia still charged right into the everfree, as headstrong as a griffon. Twilight stayed right next to Octavia, protecting her as much as she could. But nothing could have saved anypony from what happened next.
-- Rainbow Dash was just standing in the middle of the forest. Not moving a muscle, and it sounded like she wasn’t even breathing. Then, a raspy voice, which sounded different to her own, came out of the blue, rainbow-maned mare’s mouth.
“I was horrified, when you first became a Puella Magi. I couldn’t understand how a comatose pony could make a contract. I thought it was better than you being dead, and you are a natural at fighting witches; you’re a lot better than me! So at first, I was overjoyed you could hold your own. We still had a chance! In fact, we had a better chance! My heart was filled with grief, yet I knew I could get rid of it when I confessed.”
Twilight tried to ask what chance Dash was talking about, but Dash interrupted.
“Then, watching you save this prissy, grey, Canterlot mare from falling into a labyrinth of a familiar, and hearing you say you loved her, made my already grief tainted heart fill with envy and hate. Why her? Even after you begging her not to make a contract, she did anyway. And you saved the dopey bitch anyway. Why her. She’s retarded when it comes to witch hunting. She shows no real potential, and can only kill familiars. She’s a fucking prissy bitch, who should have gotten the death she deserved. And yet, you still love her. What does she have that I don’t?”
“R-Rainbow Dash! I never knew you-“
“Save it! It’s not that you never knew; it’s the fact you never cared! I’m about to deteriorate, and here I am confessing. Even if I wasn’t about to become a witch, you wouldn’t have given a flying fuck!”
A Witch!
“Twilight Sparkle, I love you. You still don’t give a flying fuck though, because you only care for Octavia!” Sneered Rainbow Dash in rage.
“D-Dash? What’s gotten into you?” Asked Twilight, tearfully.
“I love you, Twi. I really do.”
A single tear rolled down Rainbow Dash’s cheek, and plopped on her now pitch black Soul Gem. The Soul Gem changed; shattered and turned into a grief seed, leaving Rainbow Dash’s body lying on the ground, and a flashing, rainbow silhouette of the Pegasus pony appeared.
Rainbow Dash became a witch!? How can this be possible!?
The labyrinth was formed. It appeared to be Cloudsdale; only it was dark, like it had been made of rainclouds. It had brown, autumn leaves spread far and wide; crunching with every step that Octavia and Twilight took. Some runes were seen on a few houses, reading “Irisado”. Rainbows painted the sky, only they were darker, made up of browns, blacks, purples and other dark shades.
Kyubey had still been sitting on Octavia’s shoulder. “Kyubey, is it possible that we can save Rainbow Dash? Please tell us the truth! We need to know!”
“No. Rainbow Dash is practically dead. She’s a witch now, and an extremely powerful one at that. There is no turning back for her. The only thing you could possibly do for Rainbow Dash now is to put her out of her misery.”
Twilight was disgusted. “I-I have to KILL my BEST FRIEND!? W-WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU, KYUBEY!?”
“She isn’t your friend Rainbow Dash anymore. She’s a psychotic witch named Irisado. She doesn’t think like she used to, she is something completely different.” Responded Kyubey, indifferently.
“You- YOU DON’T EVEN CARE!?”
“Actually, Twilight, I am quite happy this happened. You see, I made you into a Puella Magi to keep a surplus of usable energy in the universe. Through entropy, energy is gradually lost. The energy formed by the emotions of magical fillies restocks that energy.”
“Hold on,” Interrupted Octavia. “Magical fillies? I thought somepony who fought witches was a Puella Magi.”
Even though he never moved a paw, Kyubey spoke as if he facehoofed. “You can call a Puella Magi a magical filly, or a mahou pony. Now back on topic, my species can’t create the phenomenon of emotion. Those rare few who can are considered mentally ill. I needed to seek out you ponies to collect the energy released from your emotions, and your eventual transformation into a witch. The energy collected is then used to starve off entropy.”
Twilight was confused. “So, you’re saying our emotions prevent the death of the universe?”
“Precisely, Twilight!”
“It still doesn’t make up for what you did!”
Twilight glared at the little white creature on Octavia’s shoulder, refusing to break her gaze.
“I bet that you will hate me forever now, Twilight Sparkle.”
“You got that right, you little cunt!”
“Please stop! We have a job to do, and as unpleasant as it sounds, we have to kill Rainbow Dash… I-I mean Irisado,” Snapped Octavia, glaring at the two of them. “Now shut the fuck up, and change into your costume!”
Twilight had never heard Octavia say a single cuss before. She watched in awe as Octavia changed into her magical filly outfit. Her mane was done up in a bun, and her dress resembled sheet music. Her soul gem took the shape of a treble cleft and appeared on the side of her neck. Octavia’s weapon was a bow and a single fuchsia arrow.
after a few minutes of walking, the pair confronted Irisado and without warning, Octavia charged toward the rainbow witch screaming “LEEROOOOY JENKIIINS!” -- Octavia generated some more arrows by twirling in a circle, holding her bow. She grabbed three of her arrows and shot them at Irisado. The arrows missed, yet one of the arrows curved around like a boomerang, and hit Irisado in the chest.
A spurt of rainbow blood had splashed on Octavia’s face. Octavia fired more arrows, most of which missed the target, but a few had hit Irisado. Octavia then foolishly fired her last arrow. At least it hit Irisado in the stomach. Irisado, taking advantage of her oppitunity, had started flying straight at Octavia.
It was a sonic rainboom!
Irisado charged at Octavia, The rainbows trailing the witch made up of very dark hues. Octavia had been caught off guard, Without an arrow to defend herself with.
Octavia stared at the rainbow witch, knowing it was the end.
Irisado seemed to grin as she had made Impact with Octavia. Then, Irisado opened her mouth, revealing huge, bloodstained fangs, as she ripped Octavia’s limbs off, Torturing the grey mare.
“Twilight! HELP!”
Twilight fired her many machine guns at the rainbow witch she once called friend. The bullets had hit Irisado in the stomach, but after a few seconds, Twilight realised that she’d need a nice, clean, shot to the head.
Octavia’s cries were growing softer and fainter. She was dying in such a gruesome way; all of her limbs were bitten off, her right eye had been gouged out and she had several deep cuts on her cutie mark.
Irisado plunged her head into Octavia’s chest and Irisado pulled out Octavia’s heart. Irisado began to eat Octavia’s heart, and then, after the witch had finished gruesomely playing with Octavia’s mangled corpse like a doll, the witch finally smashed Octavia’s soul gem.
Twilight felt sick to her stomach. Rainbow Dash- no, Irisado was just demented! Twilight screamed, as loud as she could. “IRISADO!”
Twilight shot at the witch maniacly, the witch charging at Twilight with it’s extreme speed.
Eventually, Twilight had an opening to kill this monster. She shot it in the head, watching it’s brains fly everywhere.
“It’s dead. It’s finally dead,” Gasped twilight, before she fell to her knees and sobbed. Twilight Sparkle was now all alone. Her friend and her lover had died on the same day.
Twilight opened her eyes. Her sight was obscured by her tears. She could vaguely see Rainbow Dash’s dead body. Not Octavia’s, though.
“What happened to Octavia?” Growled Twilight. She knew Kyubey was there, sitting and watching.
“You already know the answer, Twilight Sparkle.”
She did. Twilight refused to admit it to herself, but she knew. Octavia’s body was now trapped in Irisado’s labyrinth, and Octavia would now forever be considered a missing pony. Twilight picked up Irisado’s grief seed. She didn’t use it to clear her soul gem, but she kept it to hold a memory of her friend, Rainbow Dash. Twilight refused to leave Dash, and eventually, Fluttershy found the purple unicorn weeping over the death of the cerulean Pegasus. -- 'Dear Princess Celestia, Today I learned how it feels to lose a close friend. Rainbow Dash had helped me when I was at my weakest. She protected me from some of the bad things in this world. She had even taught me how to stand my ground. When I remember her, I remember her loyalty, and sense of adventure. I remember when I first met her, she accidentally crashed into me, and sent me into a mud puddle. I will miss Rainbow Dash. I couldn’t imagine Ponyville without her. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle.’
Twilight handed the friendship report to Spike, asking him to send the note to Princess Celestia. Twilight then walked up to her room. She started to cry again. “I’m sorry, Rainbow Dash!” Why was it you, and not me?” After what felt like hours of tears, Twilight Sparkle fell into an uneasy sleep. -- Twilight Sparkle was standing in the darkness, all alone. She heard whispers of how worthless, weak and stupid she was.
Octavia was standing in the distance, completely void of any colour, and playing a mournful song on her cello. Rainbow Dash was standing in the distance too, only she had blood dripping from her mouth, and covering her hooves. She gazed at Twilight, full of sorrow and regret. And Octavia just focused on her music.
Twilight gazed at her now dead friends. Then suddenly, a witch appeared. It stared at Twilight. Its eyes were as black as two abysses, and it appeared to be made out of a book. It was purple, with Twilight’s cutie mark printed on the cover. It had black, razor sharp fangs, and bookmarks with sharp claws as limbs.
“W-who are you?” Asked Twilight, worriedly.
“I’m Beatrix,” Purred the book witch in its bestial, demonic voice, “Your witch form!”
