(Crystal Empire)

In the Crystal Empire's castle, there was a lone figure that was reading a book while sitting on the throne. The figure was revealed to be an alicorn with a dark purple mane with black hair that had a purple and pink streak, green and red eyes that let out black smoke and was wearing black armor worthy of a tyrant. She was Tyrant Sparkle, formerly known as Twilight Sparkle.

"Heh...to believe it has been so long, no Spike?" Asked Twilight to the dark dragon that appeared out of nowhere with dark purple skin and green spikes.

"Indeed milady..." Spike said as they remembered how they became who they were now.

(Flashback)

Twilight seemed odd for one word. She seemed to be in deep thought about a certain event. The time they fought Discord.

'Those 'friends' of mine were made the bearers of the other elements, and they can't even handle Discord's lies? Me and Spike practically saved their flanks!' thought Twilight in anger at the sudden memory.

Spike, assistant to Twilight noticed her angry face while he was dusting the shelves. Deciding this was more important, he put the brush away and walked over to Twilight.

"Twilight, you alright?" asked the young dragon.

"Yes Spike, just fine." replied Twilight.

"You sure?"

Twilight sighed as she needed to talk to someone, and Spike was just the dragon.

"I'm just a little upset that our 'friends' were easily manipulated by Discord. If they can handle the elements, they shouldn't have believed his lies." replied Twilight with a scowl.

"You shouldn't worry about that. It's in the past. Besides, everything is back to normal." replied Spike with a smile.

"Yeah." 'For now.' thought Twilight who had a feeling with her life, there would be no end to the disasters they would have to face. But she let those slide as Spike stayed up for a few hours trying to comfort her.

She had nearly dozed off herself, but woke up in the middle of the night. She looked down and smiled at seeing Spike asleep next to her. Since she couldn't get some sleep, she might as well read. She carefully stepped away from Spike before going over to the shelves to see if they had anything good to read.

She stopped when her wandering eyes saw an odd book that seemed new. She knew cause she practically knew what books were there and which ones were never there.

She used her magic to pull the book out and read the cover out loud.

"Dark Magic: A Forcefully Forsaken Style." read Twilight who was a little cautious about something like this. But she was too tired to search for anything else and just plopped down on the floor before looking looking through the book.

Twilight soon found out that the book she saw was a dark spell book made by, shockingly enough, King Sombra himself!

She knew about the fearsome dark king that had governed the Crystal Empire shortly before being banished to the north cold storms by the princesses, but as a price the empire itself disappeared.

But even so...while one part of her wanted to either destroy the book, seal it away or even call Princess Celestia, another part of her was curious about the book's secrets, and that's why she was currently reading it, about how dark magic WASN'T evil, but how it's users made it evil, which made her curious about using it, even despite Celestia's warnings.

And so, Twilight waited til Spike was asleep at night before quietly reading more pages from the book and practicing different spells.

What she didn't pay any mind to was her thoughts on the others as they seemed to get darker and darker. From her wishing she never met them to imagining them in to chains to even worse situations. But Spike was never in any of them.

As the weeks went by, Twilight had learned practically all spells from the book. We now find herself and her friends as they were at the wedding Twilight's brother and 'Cadence'

Twilight had finished saying that 'Cadence' was actually an evil imposter, which she saw when the fake princess hit her brother Shining Armor and made him act more zombie-like.

But even so her 'friends' didn't believe her! They all but accused her of either being jealous or being paranoid! Heck, even her brother striped her of being maid of honor and her mentor (The very same pony who told her to look underneath the underneath) was DISAPPOINTED in her!

'THOSE FOOLS!' ThoughtTwilight darkly as she destroyed the room around her with her dark magic, not noticing her eyes becoming green and red, until...

"T-twilight..." Said a voice that surprised her, and so she saw Spike looked afraid and worried of her.

"Spike? What are you doing here? Come here to say I'm crazy like the others?" asked Twilight.

"No, I came here because I was worried." replied Spike surprising Twilight.

Twilight was stunned and walked over to Spike and held him close in for a hug.

'Spike was worried for me, unlike everypony else. Spike's the only one that I can trust.' thought Twilight who held Spike closer.

Twilight's horn began to glow as she let go of Spike as she could sense something. Something underneath them.

'It can't be...is this Cadence?' thought Twilight in wonder as she used her magic to pinpoint the location of Cadence.

"What's happening Twilight?" Asked Spike worried before he and Twilight were teleported to an underground cave by the latter's dark magic where they saw, to their shock, ANOTHER Cadence! "C-cousin Cadence?"

"S-spike...T-twilight, are t-those really you?" Cadence said before Twilight looked at her darkly.

"Shouldn't we be asking you the same?" Twilight sneered, but was surprised when Cadence did their official handshake! "...IT IS YOU!" After that the 3 just hugged, happy to be with each other.

Twilight soon filled Cadence in on what happened and how they found her, leaving out the part about her using dark magic. Cadence was stunned, but was upset at Shining for his lack of understanding for Twilight.

"I'm going to send you to the wedding." replied Twilight.

"What about you two?" asked Cadence.

"We're leaving Ponyville." replied Spike before Twilight could speak.

"Spike..." started Twilight.

"Twilight, before you start, let me just say that if the others can't understand what you tried to tell them, than it's there fault. Besides, you deserve someplace that actually respects you." replied Spike.

Twilight smiled at her assistants kind words and nodded her head. She and Spike gave Cadence one last hug before she used her magic to send cadence to the wedding.

Soon Twilight and Spike made it outside Canterlot and were heading for the Equestrian border when they saw a bunch of defeated Changeling being thrown far away, which made Twilight understand WHO had been the fake Cadence, and so with a smirk on her face she thinked 'Serves her right!'

"So where do we go now, Twilight?" Spike asked, but before Twilight could answer, they feel the ground trembling before an empire made of crystal appeared before their eyes! "T-that's..."

"The Crystal Empire..." Whispered Twilight in surprise before she grinned and her eyes shone green. "Let's go, Spike!"

"A-alright!"

Flashback End)

After that, Twilight and Spike met with the dark unicorn King Sombra, former ruler of the Crystal Empire. He made them his heirs after hearing about what happened and imbued them both with his dark magic, causing Twilight to become an alicorn and Spike to become a full grown dragon.

Soon after that, Sombra passed away, leaving the Crystal Empire in their possession. Both ended up ruling it with an iron hoof, or claw in Spike's case, yet the crystal ponies respected them nonetheless.

Their former friends tried to come and apologize to them, but were threatened with the death sentence if they came anywhere near the empire.

Celestia and Luna tried to talk some sense into Twilight, but she scared them away with the threat of war if they tried anything.

So now here they were, ruling together after not only getting a new start, but became king and queen of the empire.

"Spike?" Twilight turned to her king.

"Yeah, Twilight?" responded Spike.

"I'm pregnant." replied Twilight with a smile.

Spike's eyes widened before he walked over to his stash of strong cider and guzzled the whole thing before passing out.

"I think we better wait til daddy wakes up." Twilight rubbed her belly with a smile on her face at their new family member.

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