“Princess Twilight!”

Sauron run towards the unconscious mare, he knew this was a bad idea from the beginning, and he wanted to end it as quick as possible. Sauron wanted to pull the wooden sword that was meant for training toward him and break Twilights hold on it, but apparently it made her magic explode. Now her horn smokes and is all red, he only hopes nothing has happened to her, his plans and his reputation is at risk!

He run towards Twilight, he was now besides her. He kneeled and checked if she is breathing still. For his luck she still was breathing, he need to only check her pulse, he didn’t know how to do that on a pony. As long as her heart is pumping blood and he can feel the heartbeat, it’s going to be alright. He checked it by putting his hand open on her chest.

‘At least you are alive’ He thought.

Sauron didn’t wait, he needed to bring her to the infirmary of this palace, or anywhere else. He calmly took her forward right leg and put it on his neck, then with his other free arm he lift her up, so that her head can rest on his shoulder. Sauron when he was ready, he quickly gained speed, normal ponies or any other race he knows would choose the stairs, he isn’t normal.

He choose then more extreme way of going down, there were barrier preventing you from falling, you could rest on them and look at the ponies from above. He didn’t have time for stairs and other things like that. Sauron with his magic, jumped and made himself feel very light so that the power of his jump and legs would shoot him upwards a good distance.

He then, landed on the floor. He bend his knees slightly so that he wouldn’t fall when he hit the floor. When he regained most of his balance, Sauron turned his head towards the door that opened immediately. The doors slammed so hard into he walls on the left and right that the sound was loud enough to be heard even on the lower and upper levels.

He again run with her in his arms, her head still resting on his shoulder, her mouth slightly opened. Her mane messy only a little bit with her horn now pink then red and still smoking on a smaller scale then before. Twilight was still unconscious, and she won’t be for some time. He didn’t even bother looking at her notes and what happened to them.

Exiting the small hallway he found himself again in the bigger one, he run past all the pillars that decorated them. He would try to heal her, but he feared it might end badly, and that it might mess her up even more. He didn’t want Twilight to get injured more than she was already, she was to valuable for the time, he needed to find out more about Equestria.

Not only that, there was something making him, something weird and really strange. Something unknown to him that was like a poison, he didn’t know what but there was also another reason why he didn’t want her to suffer from injury, or to feel pain or even shout at her for this. As if a deceiving emotion sparked in him, that makes him softer.

He felt the same while with Luna and for some reason Celestia, this thing it kept on growing as if he had a parasite in him. His chest felt so heavy and so, diverse, swollen and so painful that he wanted it out, he wanted to show it to these three ponies but for now he didn’t do that s it was to weak. Besides that, it felt as if it also damaged itself, for some reason it would feel more powerful if he felt this because of one, not two or three, but one pony.

The more he feels it, the more he suffers. Not because it is, which is a very important reason of this strange feeling. Those three, the number three divides it, and it makes it more hot and more heavier...

Sauron could say that he feels pain, because he doesn’t receive this strange emotion because of one thing, but from three and because of this three he also is attacked by it. His mind feels wrong sharing the cause of his agony to these three for some reason, as if three was too much.

One was the answer perhaps? If he felt this disturbance in him because of one thing. Wouldn’t he be in pain because he shares it with three? Maybe that’s the answer, it feels wrong to share it to three and not one maybe, maybe it’s a curse or this world has an strange impact on him? Maybe because these three are Alicorns he feels this way, and this world influences him? But that wouldn’t make sense, then he would feel the same to Cadence and the little Flurry Heart.

Sauron didn’t see any guards, any staff member, any pony. He didn’t see anyone! What is this palace? A haunted abandoned house or something? Where are those morons when you need them! He would hang all of them If it was up to him, he would make them suffer and cry endlessly then make their families drink those salty tears and die! Those beautiful carpets aren’t going to help him in bringing Twilight to consciousness.

Sauron stopped, he begin to be very angry and his body temperature was rising, it could raise to the point where he would be hotter than the surface of the sun. He looked right and left, no one was even there! Only spears standing on pedestals, and then some very fancy and expensive curtains in a dark forest green color.

“Guards!” He shouted, with his voice like a volcanic eruption.

The windows shook, the walls seemed to crack and the paint on them fell of in some places that had a floppy casing. The metal even started to vibrate from the power of his shout. The echo of his voice went down the entire palace and up the upper levels, everyone had to hear this command. Even on the outside ponies looked with troubled looks what happened in the palace.

Sauron didn’t know, but he almost broke a window by just shouting, the window he was standing next to barely could hold down on the power of his voice. This was worse than Princess Luna screaming in the royal Canterlot voice. Princess Celestia herself wouldn’t be able to do that, without irritating her vocal cords.

Twilight was the closest pony to hear him shout, even when she didn’t hear him. Her ears were dropped and they managed to hold he sound away so that she won’t become deaf on one ear. Sauron didn’t hear a thing, even hoofs moving towards him, and he didn’t like that. He will have a very, very private and very mature meeting with Shining Armor as he is possibly possible for them in this palace.

“Imbeciles, lazy, fags, damsels, where the in the blackest void are they?!”

He continued, he was now going down, from what he remembered there exactly were maids and other various personnel going around the most in the palace. He is going to make these ponies have more personal staff and more guards, and more everything that can serve. Even if he has to personally found an small army or mercenary force to do it and prove it.

But then finally something he awaited for so long, it finally was heard. Hooves hitting the marble floor and galloping towards him. Yes! He succeeded in summoning those bustards towards him in helping him! He was almost at the bottom to meet with those fools who cannot even patrol the corridor well, it will be able to take Twilight to the hospital wing.

He took the last step and turned left, from behind the corner he could see the guards suddenly wanting to stop, but the physics was on the wrong side and they pulled the carpet with them. Sauron could only see as they had shocked looks on their faces when they saw he held Twilight in their arms while the ponies behind them fell on the ones in front of them.

Sauron noticed that only one guards wasn’t on the floor the rest were all unicorns, only one Pegasus with a yellow coat and fur with a blue mane was in the air. Flash Sentry as he remembered was there only prepared to help him. His pupils got smaller and he dropped his spear and he held in his hoofs. He rushed Towards his ex-marefriend.

“Twilight! Wh-what happened?!” He asked and looked at her, unconscious.

“We had some bad experiments with magic,” Sauron said once he got his senses back, “Where is the medical wing?” He asked with his tone cold and very serious.

Flash looked Sauron straight into his eyes “Not so far away, I can bring her there fast!” He started to prepare to take her with him and fly with her to the medical wing.

“I think not.”

“But why?! I can d-“

“Listen…” His eyes flickered orange. “You guards can’t even patrol the hallways and corridors well, and I had to call upon you. I don’t know who is responsible for the patrol at the higher levels but I will personally make whoever this pony or non-pony is, I don’t care, pay a very big fee. She would be long ago in the medical wing if you were up there!” His voice started to be more aggressive “Now tell me where the medical wing is…” He growled out.

They stared at each other, Flash wanted to really just get Twilight away from him and fly. But he knew if he will do that, the crystal family will be angry at him and Twilight also. He was also ordered to take orders from him! He had to abbey and tell him where the medical wing is, or else he might end up being fired.

“You need to go straight, until you will see a crossroad which will have a large door with a cross on it.”

Sauron then continued past him to where flash told him he should go. The lieutenant turned to his soldiers and he landed on the floor with a frown looking as Sauron disappears from his sight slowly. The guards heard what he said and they felt wrong that they didn’t in fact been on the upper levels, but no pony is at this time.

The doors to the medical wing opened, the ponies standing behind the doors were hit and they flew away, with probably receiving minor but painful fall damage. At the first the crystal ponies were angry at whoever did this, but their faces soon turned from angry to worried when they saw the crystal guest and savior with Princess Twilight in his arms.

“Whoever is the best doctor here, I demand him here right now!” He said.

Dread spread among the ponies, they didn’t want to even ask what happened when he first spoke, every curious question, what actually occurred to make princess Twilightlook like this. Disappeared like a stain when you wash it quick enough, just gone is one wave of fear, but soon the ponies rushed to take Princess Twilight in their magic.

Sauron let his hands down, Twilight was now being levitated onto the medical bed to be inspected, he never saw such an hospital wing in his life. Some kind of boxes with weird glass screens were present, on metal sticks. Every one of those had a black rope connected to it, the beds also looked unfamiliar to him, but he didn’t mind that actually as long as it is a bed. With his mind Sauron closed the doors behind him, and the ponies watched as he proceeded to the doctors.

Most of the ponies working here had their cutie marks connected to medical equipment or medical education symbols. He saw pills on ones pony cutie mark, he then saw a mare with a white outfit having a syringe as a cutie mark and many more. The doctors were afraid to ask what has happened to her.

One doctor inspected her heartbeat and the other looked at her horn, he saw Sauron approaching and he went away so that his peer could talk with him rather then he. The pony had a brown coat and a white patch on his eyes. His mane was black just like Sauron’s soul. He heard steps behind him and his colleague going away.

He turned with a worried expression and he saw the well known among ponies crystal guest, he was responsible or many good things. He saved Flurry Heart from a dangerous dragon. Most ponies still feared him and didn’t trust him, the doctor in front of him also didn’t quite trust him and, was scared of him.

“P-Princess Twi-Twilight seems to be i-in a stable state…” he gulped “But we need i-information what has happened to her, her horn is damaged and she needs to rest for some time, and use magic only in very dire situations...” The pony explained gaining with each word more confidence.

“What’s your name?” Sauron asked.

“Doctor Heartbeat.” He said unwillingly.

Sauron sighed mentally as he heard his name “I with princess had a small accidently with magic, during our little experiment her magic explode violently.”

“Yes I could already notice that, we will prepare special medicines and also ointment.” He said and with his hooves pointed at the maids that already took the responsibility on checking her blood and,also to check if her skull is alright .

“I want to see Princess Twilight in the best condition, can you please tell me also who is responsible for the guards in this palace?”

The doctor surprised by what Sauron said, nodded and right away called upon his other finds that was meant to do surgeries, but right now took small sample of Twilight horn be to cheek how much magic escaped during the explosion. This pony had a yellow mane and a dark orange coat with some of his fur on his legs being gray.

“Yes? How can I help you.” He asked.

“Night Shine, please tell Lord Sauron who is the responsible for the guards. I have to go and check on Princess Twilight” With that the doctor quickly disappeared from his sight and appeared next to Twilight Sparkles bed while talking with the nurses about her sate.

“W-Well, umm…Prince Shining Armor is responsible for the guards, and military of the crystal empire, while there are sm-“

“Thank you its all I needed to hear, please send a massager to the royal family so that they know Princess Twilight is here.” Sauron said and he turned away .

Night Shine only watched as Sauron looked for a place to sit. Night Shine returned to look after princess Twilight, the whole personnel was busy with the lavender Princess as nopony was here at the moment to take their time. Sauron took a hair and sat on it not so far away from the ponies that were working on Twilight.

He was in the corner just looking at them with crossed arms, inspecting if everything was going smoothly, he was stressing them, and the ponies with each moment grew more and more fear that when something happens, he is going to give this pony a penalty for a lifetime and she or he won’t forget it to the end of their life.

They connected her drip and the nurses started to write a small letter to the royal family that Twilight is in the medical wing at the moment. Sauron only waited for them to come, and do a small talk with Shining Armor or anypony who currently is in charge of those guards. Where was he at the moment? Where were the guards.

He doesn’t have a fucking clue where! That’s why he is fucking angry at those bustards how can you leave a palace unguarded by anyone in the center of the city and have every pony, every unicorn or Pegasus or Earth pony, be somewhere else?! How is this possible even? Is this a thing?! What if assassin's came and killed Twilight?

‘What if I decided to turn on them?’ He thought.

This was a question they needed to answer, who would even defend them? Discord would? He isn’t even able to make him bleed and maybe those Alicorns that are the almighty ones would? Maybe who knows they would send him to the sun, instead of the moon if he really did something wrong! This is just stupid how can you leave such an open area unguarded.

Where are the guards when you need them, how much guards even are there for this palace? Fifty or more? He wouldn’t be even surprised if this country had an army of a thousand or less ponies with only Alicorns able to defend them! He would stop thinking about the ponies and literally start a war with them.

He would first corrupt these here and take control over them, maybe even take control over Twilight and use her to his advantage over them. Then Cadence and Flurry Heart, after that there would do Shining Armor. He would conscript every pony and every stallion he can, march on Equestria, other countries he will find out about when he gets maps.

He would make them give him all their magic and he would construct powerful artefacts. He would turn them into his servants and maybe even breed them if he found a good stallion to impregnate them. He was serious when he thought about it, he had enough of this silliness, he had enough of those cute names and all those things. He wanted Back to Arda where he can feel normal and finally do what he wants to do, he is barely three days here!

Three days barely because this one is the second day and its noon or almost noon, he doesn’t even know what time this is this is terrific. He never felt as tired and annoyed as he is right now, this is the worst World he currently could find himself in, these ponies are just stupid. Because there was no war for a thousand years this doesn’t mean there won’t be! He will bring war, or he will join one only for sports if he will be stuck here forever.

Sauron hoped he won’t be stuck here forever, he really hoped for it. The messenger was sent already and he was sitting here he stifled this agony and anger. He would so gladly just go outside and slam his hand into the ground to make one of the biggest Earthquakes this world would see made by someone who uses magic.

For some reason his hands were dry, so dry that skin started to peel. He could hear a popping sound and see how strange cables were connected to Twilight, the machine that was making these sounds on its screen showed a green tick that occasionally changed its straight trajectory and jumped up.

*Slam*

The door opened and Shining Armor run towards his sister, Sauron wasn’t seen by him as he was sitting in the corner. After him Cadence and Flurry Heart went in. Shining Moved the doctors away and hugged his sister. Sauron heard as Shining said her name in whispers, Cadence also arrived and next to her was Flurry Heart.

“What happened?” He asked

Sauron behind stood up and begin to walk towards them. The doctors explained what happened quickly and also explained what is her state at the moment and that she seems fine, although the magical explosion that occurred was powerful enough to make her fall unconscious. Cadence lit her horn up to maybe help her recover. While Shining Armor angrily stomped with his hoof at the floor.

“Who brought her here?”

“I did.”

Shining knew this voice, he turned behind him and saw Sauron there. Both of them stared at each other, Sauron tried to look as much politely as he could, even if Shining Armor was angry at him. Twilight again did something and he could probably stop her. Shining sighed and looked at the Sauron with more sadden look.

“How and where? What? Most Importantly why?”

Sauron looked at his wife that was trying to heal Twilight but it didn’t help, while she took small glances at Sauron. Flurry Heart was also worried about her aunts state, but she believed she will be fine as she is one of the elements and also is a very skilled magician. Flurry Heart turned her attention from her aunt to also hear out what has happened.

“You happened.” He responded.

Every pony stopped what they were doing, Cadence also stopped in her efforts. Shining Armor was shocked to hear such a rude response, what did he do to get this?! Cadence frowned and most of the personnel got away from both of them. No one ever has expected that anyone will even try to response in such a way to Prince Shining Armor.

“What?!” Shining Armor yelled, confusion and anger laced in his voice.

“You heard right what I said, you want to know why?” He politely asked, upsetting him further.

“Enough!” Yelled Cadence.

Both him and Sauron turned to see her angry, she wasn’t angry at her husband he didn’t do a thing. She was angry at Sauron who insulted her Shining, he dared to say it was his fault that it happened while it wasn’t! He was doing paperwork with her together at the time while Flurry Heart studied math for the upcoming test.

“What is the meaning if this?!” She asked.

“I will gladly explain, but be-“

“I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANY EXCUSES! You have no right to insult my husband with something he hasn’t done!” she yelled and took three deep breaths “Now tell me what has happened.”

Sauron really wanted to say something, he really wanted to say something very bad to Cadance right now. He tried to explain what has happened, he tried to play nice but since she won’t allow him then so be it! He isn’t going to play nice and he is going to say everything he doesn’t like and everything that disturbs him!

“As you want then.” He said with his arms up, to only add more anger to the barrel “I was talking with Princess Twilight, she came she wanted to apologize.” He said.

The ponies looked at each other and thought what could have the Princess of friendship possibly do to insult him?

“She did, we had a small conversation, after that she told me about Equestria and what an beautiful land it is, and I told her about Mordor etc.” He paused “After that we traded some information and we were even. When she was about to go she said that…” He turned to shining “Your beloved Husband wanted a small duel with me.”

Cadence and Flurry Heart looked at him, he at them. “Y-Yes I wanted, but this has nothing to do with what happened!”

“It has too much, she said that I needed an more worthy opponent. Apparently you sister doesn’t hold much faith in you.” He said it in such a way that he felt that he was dying inside.

Sauron succeeded, Shining Armor did indeed die inside a little. He felt these words hitting him straight into his heart when he heard Sauron’s voice say that. He really felt useless for a moment, that even his own sister doesn’t hold enough faith in him? That he needed a better opponent? That hurt him really badly, he looked at his sister laying there in bed.

Seeing that it did work he continued “She proposed a small magical duel, I immediately said no to that, but she insisted and she wanted to do studies on my magic. So I thought that it can’t be that bad, and I accepted.” He said it without any emotion.

“You did this to aunt Twilight?” Flurry Heart asked.

The ponies looked at each other, from what they heard, and what they thought it was because of Sauron who brought her here in this state, and he accepted the duel. He could have done this or something really bad happened and Twilight made this to herself, this was very unlikely as Friendship means magic, and she is the princess of Friendship. This is equal to holding the title of princess of magic, which she is a master of!

“I wouldn’t even think to do that.” He objected, he sounded so sure about this, that ponies started to believe him “She wanted to measure my power, if my magic is different from hers, for you obvious reasons.” He said talking directly to the royal family which understood why.

Cadence knew Twilight likes to learn, she knew that since she was her foalsitter, and it continues to this day. She gets into a lot of trouble lately and she is in a hard situation, and she tried to apologize to him, and she succeeded. She did wrong and she fixed it, but to go so far ahead and already measure his power, strength, magic? Twilight really needs anypony who can love her, maybe she could make flash go back and love her?

“We went somewhere, I don’t know if that area has a special name but it was meant for your guards to train while in the castle.” He said. “ She wanted to try this with telekinesis, we did do that she took notes and she described what happened. And then when she really was getting into it, I saw that she starts to hurt herself, her horn started to smoke and was red as if it was a piece of metal ready to forge it into a sword. I wanted to end it and then, suddenly an explosion” He said , looking around with his hands up.

“She used to much magic while doing whatever she was with you, and it seems her magic was violently put back to her horn that then exploded.” Night Shine said from the crowd.

Doctor Heartbeat then added. “It would explain now what happened, with this we can help her recover.”

Cadence looked down and then turned to the ponies. “Alright everypony, please get back to work!”

As she said, so they did. The ponies begun to again look at Twilight, they used the most advanced technology there was currently, to help her as much as they can. Shining and Sauron still stared at each other, Sauron blamed shining for what happened. While shining was still angry that he said that because of him it happened.

“I think we need to discuss some thing.s” Cadence said .

“Indeed we must.” Sauron added.

He was serious, he is going to tell them everything he founds disturbing. He will even dare to order them having more guards ready to help, and he will even convince them on having medics on each hallway. He will do it, he could destroy the lives of thousands of men, he can also do this! There will be nothing stopping him now…

It was dark, really dark. No one knew what was happening as the dragons looked at each other with a fearful look. They looked at the sky, and they saw light, purple in the center light lavender light. Wind was blowing harder and harder, slowly rocks and small amounts of sand was circling around them.

The dragons had to close their eyes, and also defend their noses from the sand that hurt them. The strange light shoot into the earth sending the dragons away in a very big shockwave. A slowly posture of a bipedal creature with three spikey spider legs begin to appear. With slowly forming its body and its limbs.

From under it fire was consumed into it, and smoke made its hair that ere long and very messy. The strange show creature had red eyes that seemed to be made out of ruby and also had claws on each hand. It had no cloth or anything to hide its shadow body as his or rather its chest begin to burn with fire.

Rain from the clouds also was absorbed and turned into dirty ice that formed its lips, spikey lips that looked like the lips of a minotaur, thick and also dark. Stones from nearby flew towards the creature, they shattered into small pieces that formed small and thin layer of armor, a full plate armor that wasn’t thick but looked very well made as if it recreated a very good piece of work but not out of stone, made by the best blacksmith in the world.

Then air was sucked into the being, and it exploded with a shockwave that eliminated all the strange winds swirling around. There was silence and the bipedal creature with three spider legs looked and the dragons with slowly moving its head, making a corking sound as if spines were broken. The dragons looked terrified but the biggest of them, that had blood red scales and blue sky eyes with black dots on his body stepped forward.

His breath or hers was so heavy, as if this thing run for thousand of miles without a pause. He could smell the scent of burned flesh coming from its mouth. It was a begin of dark magic, and it was made out of it also entirely.

“T-T-The s-scep-p-ter…is g-going to be…” The dragon gulped with his hands close to his chest “D-D-Delivered, i-in three d-d-ays…” He managed to mutter out.

The being’s looked at him and it raised its hand and pointed at him. “Come… closer.”

The voice, it was so mature and it sounded so sadistic that bad thoughts and intentions flooded the minds of the dragons, from all bloody bath ones to even pedophile thoughts and fantasies. The dragons didn’t want to even become something like this, but they had to listen o to the strange being. It sounded also harsh, just like when you have a flu or when you have not talked for a long time.

“Yesss, your scales are so… smooth.” It said as he run his finger along the dragons cheek “Too bad, it can’t be like this.” He said with a very sad voice that managed to make the dragon let out a small tear.

The scales started to die, and rot away, as blood begin to pour. The dragon feel on its knees and when the dark being removed its finger. The pain stopped and the fear partially vanished.

“I want the war, to break out as soon as possible…”

Then it turned into a big cloud of shadow that managed to choke every dragon there was, and there were ten of them. The being started to shoot the particles it was made from away, injuring the dragons heavily, to the point where they were shaking from fear and couldn’t feel pain from the adrenaline. The dark being shoot into the sky and a wave of dark purple was seen on the horizon and the night sky.

“…I need the Crystal firstborn!” It hissed in their minds.

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