Once Thorax rowed him, Twilight and Spike to shore he got off the boat and grabbed the satchel "I'm sorry, everything is fine. There's just something I have to take care of."

Twilight looked at him and the satchel and said "Okay."

"I'll be right back." Said Thorax as be walked to where the two thugs were.

Twilight looked at him and Spike climbed on her shoulder "It's alright Spike." Twilight told him as she and Spike looked at Thorax and waited for him to come back.

Thorax was looking for the two thugs and when he walked through a bush he saw one of them "Ahh, there you are. I've been searching everywhere for you guys, since we got separated. Hey the sideburns are coming in nice, huh? You gotta be excited about that." He asked him.

The thug did not look at him or answered him he just kept sharpening a stick with his knife.

"Anyhow, just wanted to say, I shouldn't have split. The crown is all yours." Said Thorax tossing the satchel with the crown in it to him.

"I'll miss you, but I think it's for the..." Said Thorax turning away back to Twilight but he bumped into the other thug "Best." He finished.

"Holding out on us again? Hey, Thorax?" The thug asked.

"What?"

Then the thug got off the rock and threw his knife on the ground and walked to Thorax and said "We heard you found something. Something much more valuable than a crown. We want her, instead."

Thorax then gasped in fear because he doesn't know how they knew about Twilight.

On the other side of the island.

Twilight was waiting for Thorax near the boat with Spike on her shoulder then she saw a shadow of a stallion who she assumed was Thorax.

She sighed in relief and said "I was starting to think you ran off with the crown and left me."

But then another shadow appeared and two stallions walked up to her and one of them said "He did."

Twilight didn't believe him "What? No."

"See for yourself." Said the thug pointing to a boat.

When Twilight looked at the boat, she saw Thorax sailing away in the boat "Thorax? Thorax!" Twilight tried to call him but he couldn't hear her.

"Fair trade. A crown, for the girl with the magic hair." When Twilight heard that she quickly turned and looked at them with a scared face "How much do you think somepony will pay to stay young and healthy forever?" The thug asked his friend, then he pulled out a bag and tried to put her in it.

"No, please. No!" Then Twilight ran away from the two thugs but then her hair got stuck on a log, she tried to free herself and then she heard somepony beating up the two thugs.

"Twilight?"

"Mother?" When Twilight heard her mother she immediately went to her voice and she saw her and she saw the two thugs knocked out by her.

"Oh, my precious girl."

"Mother." Said Twilight running up to her mother and hugged her.

"Are you alright? Are you hurt?" She asked checking her.

"Mother, how did you?-"

"I was so worried about you dear. So I followed you. And I saw them attack you." Said Gothel as she hugged her daughter "Alright, let's go, let's go before they come to." Said Gothel brining Twilight back to the tower but Twilight turned around and looked at Thorax again and he kept sailing away.

Then Twilight looked at her mother, she dropped her lantern and Twilight ran up to her and hugged her.

"You were right, mother. You were right about everything."

"I know darling. I know." Said Gothel picking up the lantern and returned home with her daughter.

When Thorax sailed to shore there were two stallion guards on top of a prison and they heard a bump, then they looked down and saw the criminal Thorax and the lost princesses crown.

"Look!" Said one of the stallion guards.

"The crown." Said the other guard.

Then Thorax woke up and found himself tied in a boat "Twilight. Twilight!" Said Thorax looking for her but she wasn't around then he saw four stallion royal guards jumping on the boat and pulling him to the prison.

"No, no, no. Wait, wait,.wait. Guys, guys." Maximum was sitting near the prison on the dock and he heard Thorax so he looked around the corner and saw him being pulled by the royal guards.

"Twilight!"

When Maximus heard him saying Twilight he looked back at the island where they were last time.

The next day

Inside one of the cells in the prison Thorax was walking in circles in his cell thinking about a plan to save Twilight but then he heard his cell being unlocked and when he turned around he saw the captain of the royal guards and two more stallion guards were behind him.

"Let's get this over with Thorax." Said the captain.

"Where are we going?" Asked Thorax.

The captain didn't answer him he just gave him a look and Thorax knew what was going to happen to himself he was going to be hanged for his crime and he placed his hoof on his neck.

In the tower

Mother Gothel finished removing the flowers on Twilight's hair "There, it never happened." Then she got up from Twilight's bed and walked out of her room and said "Now wash up for dinner. I'm making hazel but soup.

Twilight didn't respond to her mother she just sat on her bed and stared on the ground because she missed Thorax.

Gothel then sighed and said "I really did try Twilight. I tried to warn you what was out there. The world is dark, and selfish and cruel. If it finds even the slightest ray of sunshine. It destroys it." Said Gothel closing the covers in Twilight's room.

After that Twilight stared at the floor sadly and Spike was next to her as well also sad, then she lied on her bed and looked at the purple flag with the sun symbol on it that Thorax bought for her in the kingdom, then she lowered the flag and looked at her drawings on the wall and saw that there were sun symbols everywhere.

Then she stood up and remembered herself when she was a baby and she was born in a castle not in the tower, she also remembers the painting on the wall with the king, queen and baby and she must assumed that the baby was her and she also remembered her wearing the tiara and it suited her perfectly and she came to a realization that she was the lost princess.

After Twilight realized that she was the lost princess she fell on the ground and knocked over some of her stuffs.

Back in the prison

The stallion guards were taking Thorax to the hanging place and while they were walking Thorax saw the two thugs in a cell next to them so he head-butted the two guards and went up and grabbed one of the thugs by his shirt.

"How did you know about her? Tell me now!" He demanded.

"It wasn't us. It was the old mare."

"Old mare?" Said Thorax then he realized that it was mother Gothel.

Then the guards grabbed him again.

"Wait, no, wait! You don't understand, she's in trouble." Said Thorax but the guards didn't listened to him they kept dragging him to the hanging place.

Back in the tower.

Mother Gothel heard the noise upstairs in Twilight's room so she walked up the stairs and said "Twilight?" But she didn't get a response "Twilight, what's going on up there?"

Inside her room Twilight was breathing heavily after her realization.

Then she walked out of her room.

"Are you alright?" Gothel asked her.

"I'm the lost princess." Twilight mumbled.

"Oh, please, speak up, Twilight. You know I hate the mumbling."

"I am the lost princess. Aren't I?" Twilight asked her.

Gothel didn't replied to her, she just stood there with a shocked face because she didn't know that Twilight realized that she was the lost princess.

"Did I mumble mother? Or should I even call you that?" Twilight asked glaring at her.

Then Gothel said "Oh, Twilight, do you even hear yourself? Why would you asks such a ridiculous question?" Said Gothel as she was about to hug her but Twilight pushed her away.

"It was you! It was all, you."

"Everything I did was to protect you." Said Gothel.

Then Twilight pushed her out of the way and walked down the stairs "Twilight."

"I spent my entire life. Hiding from ponies who would use me for my powers.-"

"Twilight!"

"And I should have been hiding from you." She told her.

"Where will you go?" She asked her "He won't be there for you."

"What did you do to him?" Twilight asked her.

"That criminal, is to be hanged for his crimes."

That made Twilight gasp in fear.

"No." Twilight said quietly and worriedly.

"Now, now. It's alright. Listen to me. All of this is as it should be." Said Gothel trying to stroke her head but Twilight grabbed her hoof before she could even touch her.

"No! You were wrong about the world. And you were wrong about me. And I will never, let you use my hair again!" Said Twilight then Gothel freed herself from her grasp and she knocked over a mirror and it shattered on the ground.

Then Twilight walked to the exit of tower.

"You want me to be the bad guy? Fine, now I'm the bad guy." Gothel said in a low and dangerous voice as she walked up to Twilight.

Author's Notes:

Only two more chapters left and the story will be completed hope all of you will enjoy this chapter.