I stared at myself in the mirror, frightened and afraid. My flank was cold from the white marble of my winged shaped sink. Just down the hall I could hear Summer singing as she fiddled with my guitar. The raw emotion in her every word threatened to make me cry again for how beautiful it was. Even though we agreed to separate and think about what we learned about each other. Yet...Her song was begging for me to come and hold her to make all the pain go away. Like I always did.

I took off my spell earrings and replaced them with fakes as I thought about what was going to happen in the next few days. It hurt to know that Teresa was already in the city ahead of schedule. When Luna told me of this fact in the dreamscape. I had to get ready for the sudden influx of ponies that will try to get to me, but that was not the case.

After I told Luna to tell Spitfire to do an errand for me in the small town far to the west called, Blood Gulch. Luna warned me that the militia groups left the city for an unknown reason, but I knew better. They were leaving to let Celestia's so called "Ace in the hole," do all the work for them, however. That just means that I have some more leeway to make my city more secure.

"But there is still the problem with my cabinet," I sighed as I took off my collar and tail ribbon.

With a quick flap of the wings, I was on the floor again. I turned around to have a shower to clean myself from all the dirt and grime from yesterday's events. I walked over to my open shower in the far corner of the room and turned on the water until it was a perfect mix of hot and cold, My wings twitched to the sudden sensation of water caressing my entire body for a moment before they relaxed and mellowed out. I let out a sigh as I felt the warm water flow down my back as I rested my head against the ivory wall that is intricately carved to look like an eloquent tree of life.

"Once everything is said and done. I'm going to need to fix that problem," I said solemnly.

With all the things that I set up so I wouldn't need to be the Empress of Arcadia, it was starting to backfire on me. Luna confirmed my suspicions that all my cabinet members were as corrupt as I thought when I first moved into the castle. Even Green Eco was showing to be too reliable and trustworthy that it was starting to show. I should have found someone to do what Eco did. Celestia's little recommendation was too good to be true. He had to go with the counsel and military staff that Luna said was a threat. I put aside my plans for executing all the asshats in my country and thought about what I was going to do with my religion.

They were supposed to turn out like a bunch of Hippies smoking weed every day, not a group that believes that I should die in a fire so I could reunite with the wind. What's worse was that they now believed that Teresa was the essence of the wind and ruler of Arcadia. They, at least, Still believe that I was the Goddess of Twilight because of Luna. Once the zealots realized that they made a horrible mistake of following Teresa, they can all die in a fire!

"Are you alright, Winny?" spoke a shaky voice that entered the room. I looked over my shoulder with a slight snarl for interrupting my internal rant. The pony in question flinched and backed away to my seething gaze.

"Sorry, I-I'll leave you alone," whimpered Summer as she left the room with her ears against her head and her tail between her legs.

"Fuck, no!" I called back as I realized what I just did, but there was no response. "Please don't go," I said in utter dejection as I hung my head in shame. Thinking that she thinks that I hate her and never wanted to see her again.

I hit my head against the wall for not controlling my emotions like I used to. This girl body made it impossible to keep calm and think before I acted, and it shows more and more each day. Before I could get shot at point blank and not even flinch. Before I could hold all my pain and frustration without breaking. Before I could vent all my pent up shit by trolling noobs on Dark Souls 2. Now? Now I cry when I get to stressed out. Now I couldn't help but be a bitch to everyone. Now I scared everyone away when I need them most.

Like; Summer, Spitfire, and Luna. The only three that care about me, but I did, and now? Now I was going to meet the one that I hate most, hoping that nothing bad was going to happen. I was hoping that she wouldn't do anything to me while I waited for Spitfire, to come and rip her throat out. That wasn't going to happen. I was sure of it. The second we were away from prying eyes, Teresa would show me how much she missed me, with whips and chains. As much of a masochist, I was, the only one that got to treat me that way was Summer. If I'll ever see her again.

'Great, now I'm crying again,' I sniffled, and stopped myself from banging my head because it started to bleed.

I sat in the shower for a few more minutes to clean myself up and collect my emotions again. I was hesitant to leave the shower room as my hoof loomed over the silver handle of the door. The second I left this room, I was going to have to get ready for the abuse that I was going to have to put myself through. Luna told me that she was getting the grand tour of my castle via telepathy. The zealots were parading around in joy. My counsel was getting ready to get rid of me. Green Eco gave Teresa a house, which she moved in this morning, and I had to walk past Summer and tell her that I was going away for a while.

"Fuck me," I groaned as I stiffened my posture and pushed opened the door with a towel over my shoulders. I walked down the quiet hall with my head held high, despite being distressed about the situation. Luna was giving me information about Teresa, who was now waiting for me in the dining room with my two older sisters at her side.

I moved in my living room wondering where Summer was. She wasn't playing with my guitar anymore, nor anywhere near the living room, but I knew she was still in this section, I could feel her depression and brooding in my heart.

It was strange that I can now feel everything that Summer was feeling and vice versa. I knew it came from the Soul Merging that we did a few hours ago. Before, if we wanted to feel what each other was feeling. Our ass marks would glow. Not it was 24/7, not that I was complaining, it was good to know what she was feeling. It gave me some indication as to how I could cheer her up and make her smile, but it didn't help with finding her.

Irritated that Summer was avoiding me, I flew up to the balcony to see if she was hiding in my bed. Thankfully, she was. Hiding under the covers was a silent bubblegum pink pegasus with a sunset mane. Her foxtail that was usually smoothed down poked out from under the baby-blue blanket, with my cutie mark stitched on it. I jumped on the bed and tip-toed to where I thought her head was, and sighed when her tail vanished back underneath the blanket.

"Summer?" I called out to the filly underneath the blanket as I tapped her on her shoulder...or head?

"What?" she squeaked out in response. I pulled off the blanket to talk to her face to face and saw that she was quite upset, which I already knew. I sat down by her head with another sigh and brushed her shoulder with my tail.

"I-I just want you to know that I am sorry for snapping at you back there. I-I know we need our space to sort out everything that we just went through. I know that both of us don't know what to make of it, and I am just as confused as you are, and snapping at you when we were just concerned for no reason was wrong of me and..." I tried to choke out as I heard Luna tell me that Teresa wanted me to come and meet her at her house instead, with dark intentions of causing harm to me. Then she told be that the counsel took me out of power and was going to place the crown on Teresa tomorrow evening. "..And I don't want to leave knowing that you hate me for everything that I have done to you."

"Hey, hey. Don't cry," Summer said as she pulled me into a warm embrace, but all I could do was cry. I was about to leave the castle to be tortured for god knows how long. Just so I could protect Arcadia and her people, from Celestia.

"No! It's not, OK! I'm fucking terrified!" I shouted into her chest as she caressed the back of my head like a sad puppy. "I don't want to leave, but I have to. I have to trust in everyone that everything was going to be alright when I know bad things are going to happen. Fuck Celestia! Fuck her and her delusional bullshit."

"It's okay, Winny. I know that you are walking the tightrope right now, but you need to calm down," she whispered into my ear. I nodded in response as I wiped away my tears on her chest. "I know what you are going to do, and I am scared as much as you. I know what she did to you, and I know that she will do it again. Just remember that when all is said and done, I will be waiting for you."

I don't know how long I cried in her arms for the millions time again, but I do know that Feather Flight was the one to come and take me to Teresa's place. It was good to know that Summer didn't hate me, but it was troubling to learn that the counsel and Equestria made Teresa my guarding. Starting the plan. We said our goodbyes again as Luna escorted Summer away from me as I walked out of the castles eastern doors.

Feather Flight was hesitant to watch me go and wanted to know where Spitfire was. Truthfully, I told her as we walked to the small mountainside manor that she was checking up on Ruzza and her marijuana farm to see if it was ready to be distributed into Equestria, and to pick me up a bag cause I always wanted to try it. Feather wasn't happy about that, but what could she do?

She was about to leave me in a random house which a bitch that I was going to let her harm me again. I had to keep telling myself it was worth it. That Spitfire would come and the Elements of Harmony—Who was also on their way to the city to meet Teresa, and to use their friendship cannon on me.

Everything depends on me surviving one night in Teresa's care again. With the Elements of Harmony coming, I could try and get them to see that Celestia was in the wrong and I was right. I know for a fact that when Fluttershy learns that her colt-friend was killed, and tossed into an incinerator, that there was going to be hell to pay. I know that Rarity would stay at her side all the way while the others would have conflicted emotions. Then again, Celestia broke thousands of Pinky-Promises. Pinkie Pie would be extremely upset and would never give a party for Celestia ever again.

Then there was the problem with Celestia marking all of the humans in the world. How she was going to do it, I don't know, but what I do know was that the mark was going to be unique. Snowball told me through the dreamscape that it was in between: Horns or a tribal mark on the face. If that were to happen, then the controversy would be just as bad as me proving that Celestia was wrong and since Luna told me the vast majority of survivors are in Arcadia. The spotlight was going to be on me for being one as well.

'It just keeps piling on.'

With all that going through my head, we came up to the main driveway of the manor. We flew over the black metal gate and walked up to the recently used asphalt to the; Victorian style house. The overall house that was surrounded by trees was quite beautiful. It was going to be my summer home, a getaway where I could just spend time alone or with Summer.

We walked up a small set of stairs and stopped just outside of a set of double doors that was in carved in the same white tree design as my castle. Feather didn't want to see me go and pulled me into a hug, mumbling things that made saying goodbye so much harder. What was worse was that I knew that she would feel awful because she left me here in the first place.

"It's okay, Feather. You'll see me again. So don't cry," I smiled warmly, as we pulled away from each other.

"Okay," she smiled back with a choked sob. I wiped away the stray tear she had with a wing before she left a kiss on my head and said goodbye.

'I was starting to hate goodbyes.'

Within seconds after knocking on the door, and with Feather flying away bawling her eyes out, an earth pony mare answered the door. Her coat was as white as mine, but her mane was different. Her two-toned brown mane was short and spiky like a pinecone. Her tail was the same. What threw me off was the lack of cutie mark, but that just shows that she was a new arrival and haven't found her talent yet. She gave me a big smile and pulled me into a hug just as her sister, who looked exactly like her, but her mane and tail was long and tied in a bun.

"It's Catherine! Man, I missed you!" the mare who was killing me with a bear hug squeaked, as I was dying from asphyxiation.

"Let her go, Richel. You are going to kill her," Michel said with a giggle. Richel dropped me onto the floor with a *thump!* I stood back up with a nervous laugh and looked around to see where Teresa was.

'And my name is not Catherine. It's Winter Rose,' I thought bitterly.

"Sorry, Cathy, but you know Richel. Clingy and annoying," Michel said with a smirk, causing Richel to scrunch up her face with a frown.

"I'm not annoying or clingy!" she defended herself with a pout. I just rolled my eyes and walked in, wondering where Teresa was hiding. Michel saw that I was looking for her and spoke up while Richel went on and one about how not "annoying," she was.

"Mom is out for the moment, Cathy. So she asked us to take you to your room to wait until she comes back."

"Okay," I replied, hoping that my room wasn't the basement room. "Where is my room?" I asked my crazy sister.

"Well, come and see," she said with a warm smile and began to walk towards the main door that leads to the cellar.

'Never mind, the cellar is worse,' I thought as I forced myself to follow, knowing what was going to happen.

Both of my sisters went quiet as we walked through the main foyer and down the hall towards the cellar. There was a sudden chill in the air the closer we got to the door. My body began to want to run, the hair on the back of my neck was standing on end, and my wings twitched uncontrollably, but I kept moving forward.

We stopped in front of a simple door that was labeled: Cellar. The twins turned around with a creepy smile, and before I knew it, I was tackled to the ground. I instinctual kicked and screamed as I was dragged by the twins into the cellar, knowing what's going to happen next. They didn't say anything but smiled like there was nothing wrong with what they were doing.

I froze in pure horror when Richel turned on the lights, revealing the chains in the far wall of the stone, wine cellar.

"Please don't," I begged as Michel carried me to the chains, but she didn't listen. Before I could, at least, give myself a fighting chance, Richel smacked my upside the head, causing me to see nothing but stars.

In my daze, I couldn't move, but I could still feel. I felt my wings and arms and legs chained to the wall. I felt my earrings taken out and a cold, metal collar put on. By the time, I was out of my daze, all I could hear was the cellar door shutting. I groaned in irritation from a headache that came with the cheap-shot that Richel did. I looked around to see if I could find anything to aid in my escape, but the lights shut off, leaving me alone with my thoughts in the darkness.

I don't know how long I was sitting in pure darkness. Minutes, hours, I couldn't tell. All I could think about was 'what she was going to do with me once she comes back from God knows where?' Was she going to break my legs? 'Doubt it. The Elements what to see me tomorrow, so that's not it.' Was she going beat me like she usually does? 'That was more possible, but I still don't like it.' The more ways that I thought was going to happen, the more I realized that this was a stupid plan, but it was the only plan. I sighed, knowing that it was too late to abandon the mission now.

Just as I was about to pass out from boredom, the lights in the cellar turned on, and the door opened. I gulped as a mare with a three-toned red mane and tail walked in. I instantly knew from her cold, empty eyes that it was Teresa. I backed into the wall with my wings fluttering wildly as she walked up to me wearing an apron with a pair of pliers in the chest pocket.

"Hello my cute little girl!" she cooed in a spidery voice as she petted my mane with a dark smile. All my hair was standing on end as she gave me a stiff hug that made my skin crawl like there was an entire colony of bullet ants moving under my fur.

"H-Hey, m-m-mommy," I choked out with tears threatening to fall as I felt her hoof rubbed against my flower.

"Now, now. Don't be shy. After all, you are finally the girl I wanted," she whispered into my ear before she pulled away her hoof that was rubbing my clit and began rubbing my wings. "But there was one problem my dear, and that is your pesky wings."

My heart dropped as I begged that she wasn't going to do what I think she was going to do. I know for a fact that being de-feathered was as lethal to a Pegasus as an Earth pony losing his hooves.

"Please don't take away my wings," I whimpered as my body trembled to her touch.

"Of course not! I know what will happen if I do that. No, just the feathers have to go," she side with a smile.

Just as I was about to beg for her to leave my wings alone. She flipped me over and pinned me on my stomach. I wanted to scream, to cry, but I couldn't. I knew she would do far worse than just take away my feathers. I felt my wings flattened out on the cold hard stone. The agonizing pain from the pressure she placed on my wings with her hooves was unbearable, but I couldn't do anything.

"Now don't you fret my love. This will be nice and painless," she cheered as I felt the tip of the pliers clamp down on a few of my primaries.

"Please," I choked out as I felt a slight tugging on my wing. "Please don't touch my-AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Author's Notes:

So. Whoever can find the one mistake that isn't the obvious last two line's. I will put in an OC of your creation into the story as a side character. Also, I was a bit lazy, so here is how the house looks.

Also: Horns? Or tribal mark? I can't decide.